What's New in SQL Server 2005

10012 What's New in SQL Server 2005 2006-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 Microsoft <h3><font size="3">Enterprise Data Management</font></h3> <p>In today's connected world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure yet available to your users. With SQL Server 2005, users and information technology (IT) professionals across your organization will benefit from reduced application downtime, increased scalability and performance, and tight yet flexible security controls. SQL Server 2005 also includes many new and improved capabilities to help make your IT staff more productive. SQL Server 2005 includes key enhancements to enterprise data management in the following areas:</p>

<h3>Enterprise Data Management</h3> <p>In today's connected world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure yet available to your users. With SQL Server 2005, users and information technology (IT) professionals across your organization will benefit from reduced application downtime, increased scalability and performance, and tight yet flexible security controls. SQL Server 2005 also includes many new and improved capabilities to help make your IT staff more productive. SQL Server 2005 includes key enhancements to enterprise data management in the following areas:</p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="listBullet" valign="top">•</td> <td class="listItem"> <p>Manageability</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="listBullet" valign="top">•</td> <td class="listItem"> <p>Availability</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="listBullet" valign="top">•</td> <td class="listItem"> <p>Scalability</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="listBullet" valign="top">•</td> <td class="listItem"> <p>Security</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Manageability</h3> <p>SQL Server 2005 makes it simpler and easier to deploy, manage, and optimize enterprise data and analytical applications. As an enterprise data management platform, it provides a single management console that enables data administrators anywhere in your organization to monitor, manage, and tune all of the databases and associated services across your enterprise. It provides an extensible management infrastructure that can be easily programmed using SQL Management Objects, enabling users to customize and extend their management environment and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build additional tools and functionality to further extend the capabilities that come out of the box.</p> <h3>SQL Server Management Studio</h3> <p>SQL Server 2005 simplifies management by providing one integrated management console to monitor and manage the SQL Server relational database, as well as Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Notification Services, and SQL Server Mobile Edition across large numbers of distributed servers and databases. Database administrators can perform several tasks at the same time, such as authoring and executing a query, viewing server objects, managing an object, monitoring system activity, and viewing online help. SQL Server Management Studio hosts a development environment for authoring, editing, and managing scripts and stored procedures using Transact-SQL, Multidimensional Expressions, XML for Analysis, and SQL Server Mobile Edition. Management Studio is readily integrated with source control. Management Studio also hosts tools for scheduling SQL Server Agent jobs and managing maintenance plans to automate daily maintenance and operation tasks. The integration of management and authoring in a single tool coupled with the ability to manage all types of servers provides enhanced productivity for database administrators.</p> <p>SQL Server 2005 exposes more than 70 new measures of internal database performance and resource usage, ranging from memory, locking, and scheduling to transactions and network and disk I/O. These Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) provide greater transparency and visibility into the database and a powerful infrastructure for proactive monitoring of database health and performance.</p> <h3>SQL Management Objects</h3> <p>SQL Management Objects (SMO) is a new set of programming objects that exposes all of the management functionality of the SQL Server database. In fact, Management Studio was built with SQL Management Objects. SMO is implemented as a Microsoft .NET Framework assembly. You can use SMO to automate common SQL Server administrative tasks, such as programmatically retrieving configuration settings, creating new databases, applying Transact-SQL scripts, creating SQL Server Agent jobs, and scheduling backups. The SMO object model is a more secure, reliable, and scalable replacement for Distributed Management Objects (DMO), which was included with earlier versions of SQL Server.</p> <h3>Availability</h3> <p>Investments in high-availability technologies, additional backup and restore capabilities, and replication enhancements will enable enterprises to build and deploy highly available applications. Innovative high-availability features such as database mirroring, failover clustering, database snapshots, and enhanced online operations will minimize downtime and help to ensure that critical enterprise systems remain accessible. This section reviews these enhancements in greater detail.</p> <h3>Database Mirroring</h3> <p>Database mirroring allows continuous streaming of the transaction log from a source server to a single destination server. In the event of a failure of the primary system, applications can immediately reconnect to the database on the secondary server. The secondary instance detects failure of the primary server within seconds and accepts database connections immediately. Database mirroring works on standard server hardware and requires no special storage or controllers. Figure 1 shows the basic configuration of database mirroring.</p> <h2>Enterprise Data Management</h2> <p>In today's connected world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure yet available to your users. With SQL Server 2005, users and information technology (IT) professionals across your organization will benefit from reduced application downtime, increased scalability and performance, and tight yet flexible security controls. SQL Server 2005 also includes many new and improved capabilities to help make your IT staff more productive. SQL Server 2005 includes key enhancements to enterprise data management in the following areas:</p> <p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="listBullet" valign="top">•</td> <td class="listItem"> <p>Manageability</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="listBullet" valign="top">•</td> <td class="listItem"> <p>Availability</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="listBullet" valign="top">•</td> <td class="listItem"> <p>Scalability</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="listBullet" valign="top">•</td> <td class="listItem"> <p>Security</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> <h3>Manageability</h3> <p>SQL Server 2005 makes it simpler and easier to deploy, manage, and optimize enterprise data and analytical applications. As an enterprise data management platform, it provides a single management console that enables data administrators anywhere in your organization to monitor, manage, and tune all of the databases and associated services across your enterprise. It provides an extensible management infrastructure that can be easily programmed using SQL Management Objects, enabling users to customize and extend their management environment and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build additional tools and functionality to further extend the capabilities that come out of the box.</p> <h3>SQL Server Management Studio</h3> <p>SQL Server 2005 simplifies management by providing one integrated management console to monitor and manage the SQL Server relational database, as well as Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Notification Services, and SQL Server Mobile Edition across large numbers of distributed servers and databases. Database administrators can perform several tasks at the same time, such as authoring and executing a query, viewing server objects, managing an object, monitoring system activity, and viewing online help. SQL Server Management Studio hosts a development environment for authoring, editing, and managing scripts and stored procedures using Transact-SQL, Multidimensional Expressions, XML for Analysis, and SQL Server Mobile Edition. Management Studio is readily integrated with source control. Management Studio also hosts tools for scheduling SQL Server Agent jobs and managing maintenance plans to automate daily maintenance and operation tasks. The integration of management and authoring in a single tool coupled with the ability to manage all types of servers provides enhanced productivity for database administrators.</p> <p>SQL Server 2005 exposes more than 70 new measures of internal database performance and resource usage, ranging from memory, locking, and scheduling to transactions and network and disk I/O. These Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) provide greater transparency and visibility into the database and a powerful infrastructure for proactive monitoring of database health and performance.</p> <h3 align="center"><img height="383" width="550" alt="" src="/myApp/FCKEditor/UserFiles/Image/63370_550x383_screen2_f.gif" /></h3> <h3>SQL Management Objects</h3> <p>SQL Management Objects (SMO) is a new set of programming objects that exposes all of the management functionality of the SQL Server database. In fact, Management Studio was built with SQL Management Objects. SMO is implemented as a Microsoft .NET Framework assembly. You can use SMO to automate common SQL Server administrative tasks, such as programmatically retrieving configuration settings, creating new databases, applying Transact-SQL scripts, creating SQL Server Agent jobs, and scheduling backups. The SMO object model is a more secure, reliable, and scalable replacement for Distributed Management Objects (DMO), which was included with earlier versions of SQL Server.</p> <h3>Availability</h3> <p>Investments in high-availability technologies, additional backup and restore capabilities, and replication enhancements will enable enterprises to build and deploy highly available applications. Innovative high-availability features such as database mirroring, failover clustering, database snapshots, and enhanced online operations will minimize downtime and help to ensure that critical enterprise systems remain accessible. This section reviews these enhancements in greater detail.</p> <h3>Database Mirroring</h3> <p>Database mirroring allows continuous streaming of the transaction log from a source server to a single destination server. In the event of a failure of the primary system, applications can immediately reconnect to the database on the secondary server. The secondary instance detects failure of the primary server within seconds and accepts database connections immediately. Database mirroring works on standard server hardware and requires no special storage or controllers. Figure 1 shows the basic configuration of database mirroring.</p> <p>To read more visit >> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/overview/whats-new-in-sqlserver2005.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/overview/whats-new-in-sqlserver2005.mspx</a></p> <p> </p>

2 10013 Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) 2006-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 Microsoft <h3>Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)</h3> <p>If you are developing .NET Framework 2.0 applications that use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) credentials provide a simpler and more targeted framework to showcase your technical skills in addition to the skills that are required for specific developer job roles.</p>

<h3>Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)</h3> <p>If you are developing .NET Framework 2.0 applications that use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) credentials provide a simpler and more targeted framework to showcase your technical skills in addition to the skills that are required for specific developer job roles.</p> <p>The Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) credentials provide developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET with industry recognition of their Microsoft .NET development skills and experience.</p> <p>Stand out from the crowd, and show off your skills today.</p> <h2>Visual Studio 2005 Credentials </h2> <p>The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) credential highlights your knowledge developing Microsoft Windows, Web, or distributed applications that use the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. There are three MCTS certification paths: </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/webapps/">Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/winapps/">Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/distapps/">Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications</a> </li> </ul> <p>The Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) credential highlights your job role, featuring your specific area of expertise. Now you can easily distinguish yourself as an expert in Windows development, Web application development, or enterprise applications development. There are three MCPD certification paths: </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/webdev/">Professional Developer: Web Developer</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/windev/">Professional Developer: Windows Developer </a><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/entapp/">Professional Developer: Enterprise Applications Developer</a> </li> <li> </li> </ul> <h2>Visual Studio .NET Credentials</h2> <p>The Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) credential provides industry recognition for professional developers who build powerful applications that use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Web services. </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcad/">Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)</a> </li> </ul> <p>The Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for Microsoft .NET credential is the top-level certification for advanced developers. These developers design and develop leading-edge enterprise solutions using Microsoft development tools and technologies in addition to the Microsoft .NET Framework.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcsd/">Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)</a> </li> </ul>

7 10014 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 2006-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 Microsoft <p><span><font size="4">Microsoft Visual Studio 2005</font></span></p> <span> <p id="YwGetVs"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px" src="http://msdn.microsoft.com/trial/art/box.gif" alt="" /> Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 were designed to help you build data-driven applications more easily and quickly than before. Order Visual Studio 2005 Trial and experience the integration of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for yourself. </p> </span>

<table id="YWContentTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="590" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div id="YwContent"> <p id="YwGetVs"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px" src="http://msdn.microsoft.com/trial/art/box.gif" alt="" /> Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 were designed to help you build data-driven applications more easily and quickly than before. Order Visual Studio 2005 Trial and experience the integration of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for yourself. </p>  <div class="YwTextArea" id="YwVisualStudio" style="CLEAR: left"> <h2><span>Microsoft Visual Studio 2005</span></h2> <h3 class="YwFirstSub"><span>Develop Applications</span></h3> <ul> <li>Be more productive while writing and debugging code. </li> <li>Develop and test more secure, reliable, and high performance software. </li> <li>Collaborate with others more effectively using Visual Studio 2005 Team System. </li> <li class="YwCallToAction"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/trial/country">Get Visual Studio 2005 Trial</a> </li> </ul> <h3 class="YwSecondSub"><span>Develop Web Applications</span></h3> <ul> <li>More than 50 new controls accelerate common Web development tasks, including login, menu, navigation, data, wizards, and more. </li> <li>Experience a state-of-the-art code editor with clean HTML editing, including XHTML 1.1 support. </li> <li>Take advantage of built-in, customizable starter kits and hundreds of prewritten code snippets that help you begin building applications quickly. </li> <li class="YwCallToAction"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/">Download Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition</a> </li> </ul> </div>  <div class="YwTextArea" id="YwSqlServer"> <h2><span>Microsoft SQL Server 2005</span></h2> <h3 class="YwFirstSub"><span>Unleash Your Business Potential</span></h3> <ul> <li>Build and deploy mission-critical applications using scalability enhancements such as table partitioning, replication, and 64-bit support. </li> <li>Understand business data in real time with powerful Business Analytics, OLAP, and Data Mining capabilities. </li> <li>Save time and money by using technologies that work well together. SQL Server 2005 offers interoperability across platforms, support for open standards, native XML, and data sharing among applications and devices. </li> <li>Increase productivity with a new, easy-to-use management tool, Common Language Runtime support, and tight integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. </li> <li>Help protect data with encryption, more secure default settings, and enhanced permissions control. </li> <li class="YwCallToAction"><a href="http://www.trysqlserver2005.com/">Get SQL Server 2005 Trial</a> </li> </ul> <h3 class="YwSecondSub"><span>SQL Server 2005 Express Edition</span></h3> <ul> <li>Learn SQL Server 2005 with the free, feature-packed database, SQL Server Express. </li> <li>Embed or redistribute SQL Server Express in your Microsoft Windows-based applications. </li> <li>Enable dynamic Websites with the integrated platform of SQL Server Express and Visual Web Developer Express. </li> <li class="YwCallToAction"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/default.aspx">Download SQL Server 2005 Express</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

9 10015 Customize and Extend Visual Studio 2006-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 Microsoft <h3>Customize and Extend Visual Studio</h3> <p> </p> Your development environment is critical to your overall productivity. If you can’t find a partner solution or 3rd party add-in, why not build one yourself? Templates, Starter Kits, the Visual Studio automation model and the Visual Studio SDK are extensibility options that can help you to: <ul> <li>Automate repetitive tasks </li> <li>Enforce consistency across your development team </li> <li>Call out to external utilities and programs </li> <li>Integrate and streamline your development process </li> <li>Partner with Microsoft to integrate and productize your development tool </li> </ul>

<h3>Customize and Extend Visual Studio</h3> <p> </p> Your development environment is critical to your overall productivity. If you can’t find a partner solution or 3rd party add-in, why not build one yourself? Templates, Starter Kits, the Visual Studio automation model and the Visual Studio SDK are extensibility options that can help you to: <ul> <li>Automate repetitive tasks </li> <li>Enforce consistency across your development team </li> <li>Call out to external utilities and programs </li> <li>Integrate and streamline your development process </li> <li>Partner with Microsoft to integrate and productize your development tool </li> </ul> For more complex integration scenarios like developing support for your own language, adding a new designer to handle your custom file type or creating new project systems, you’ll need to build a package. Learn about that here… <br /><br /><hr /> <table style="WIDTH: 100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; WIDTH: 50%" valign="top"> <h3>Templates and Starter Kits</h3> <table align="right"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/art/extend/starterkit_sample.jpg" target="_blank"><img height="167" alt="Click to Enlarge" hspace="5" src="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/art/extend/starterkit_sample_small.jpg" width="200" vspace="5" border="0" /></a><br /><em>Click to enlarge</em></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Templates</strong> provide a simple way to duplicate your project and share a skeleton or template with your development team. Handy for jump starting new developers and ensuring consistency across your team. </p> <p><strong>Starter Kits</strong> projects guide you through developing an application with supporting help files, programming guidance and pre-built code ready to customize and complete. There are two starter kits provided in Visual Studio 2005 and you can create your own to accelerate development time for new team members.</p> <p><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6db0hwky" target="_blank">Learn more…</a> </p> <br clear="all" /><hr /> <h3>Automate tasks through Macros</h3> <table align="right"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/art/extend/macros_sample.jpg" target="_blank"><img height="162" alt="Click to Enlarge" hspace="5" src="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/art/extend/macros_sample_small.jpg" width="200" vspace="5" border="0" /></a><br /><em>Click to enlarge</em></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>The easiest way to extend Visual Studio is by recording a macro. You can record almost all user commands and keystrokes as a reusable macro. Playing back that macro is as easy as pressing a key. Once you create a macro, you can use Visual Studio to edit the Visual Basic code that it generates.</p> <p><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b4c73967" target="_blank">Learn More…</a> </p> <br clear="all" /></td> <td style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; WIDTH: 50%" valign="top"> <h3>Custom forms and processes through Add-Ins</h3> <table align="right"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/art/extend/addins_sample.jpg" target="_blank"><img height="161" alt="Click to Enlarge" hspace="5" src="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/art/extend/addins_sample_small.jpg" width="200" vspace="5" border="0" /></a><br /><em>Click to enlarge</em></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>The automation model is a programming interface that gives you access to the underlying routines that drive the integrated development environment (IDE), allowing you to customize, manipulate, and automate it. For example, you can programmatically create projects and project items and automate the project build and deployment processes. </p> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxconcreatingautomationobjects.asp" target="_blank">Learn more…</a></p> <br clear="all" /><hr /> <h3>Samples</h3> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/code/automation/default.aspx">Visual Studio Automation Samples</a><br />These code samples show you how to build VSMacros projects, add–ins, and wizards to make your teams more productive and to bend Visual Studio to the ways you like to work. </p> <h3>Read Blogs and Publications related to Add-ins</h3> <p><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/craigskibo">Craig Skibo</a><br />Visual Studio Developer and co-author of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6425.asp">Inside Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET 2003</a> </p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/hlong/">Huizhong Long</a><br />Visual Studio Developer </p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/chetanc/">Chetan Chudasama</a><br />Visual Studio Tester </p> <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.vstudio.extensibility">Check out the MSDN Newsgroup</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr />

1 10016 Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests 2006-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 Google <p align="center"><font color="#ff0000" size="4"><strong>Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests</strong></font> </p>  <div id="storybody"> <p class="storyhdr"><img height="122" hspace="10" width="179" align="left" vspace="10" alt="" src="/myApp/FCKEditor/UserFiles/Image/abc.gif" />SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government's demand for a list of people's search requests — potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect. <script type="text/javascript"> if (window.yzq_a == null) document.write("<scr" + "ipt type=text/javascript src=http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/bc/bc_1.7.3.js></scr" + "ipt>"); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> if (window.yzq_a) { yzq_a('p', 'P=7FdV2ELaS.bvbMnZQ4D.exUZRGw69EQd6TsAAnNb&T=1a20s4hui%2fX%3d1142810939%2fE%3d8903535%2fR%3dnews%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d1.1%2fW%3d8%2fY%3dYAHOO%2fF%3d804317522%2fH%3dY2FjaGVoaW50PSJuZXdzIiBjb250ZW50PSJnaXZlO2dvdmVybm1lbnQ7Y2hpbGRyZW47SW50ZXJuZXQ7aGVscDtyZWZ1cmxfbmV3c195YWhvb19jb20iIHJlZnVybD0icmVmdXJsX25ld3NfeWFob29fY29tIiB0b3BpY3M9InJlZnVybF9uZXdzX3lhaG9vX2NvbSI-%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d91A949D1'); yzq_a('a', '&U=139ur5dmb%2fN%3d91KPXkJe5tc-%2fC%3d390764.8155321.8972181.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d3226908'); } </script> <noscript></noscript></p> <p>In his 21-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Ware told Google to provide the U.S. Justice Department with the addresses of 50,000 randomly selected Web sites indexed by its search engine by April 3.</p> </div>

<p align="center"><font color="#ff0000" size="4"><strong>Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests</strong></font> </p>  <div id="storybody"> <p class="storyhdr"><img height="122" hspace="10" width="179" align="left" vspace="10" alt="" src="/myApp/FCKEditor/UserFiles/Image/abc.gif" />SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government's demand for a list of people's search requests — potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect. <script type="text/javascript"> if (window.yzq_a == null) document.write("<scr" + "ipt type=text/javascript src=http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/bc/bc_1.7.3.js></scr" + "ipt>"); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> if (window.yzq_a) { yzq_a('p', 'P=7FdV2ELaS.bvbMnZQ4D.exUZRGw69EQd6TsAAnNb&T=1a20s4hui%2fX%3d1142810939%2fE%3d8903535%2fR%3dnews%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d1.1%2fW%3d8%2fY%3dYAHOO%2fF%3d804317522%2fH%3dY2FjaGVoaW50PSJuZXdzIiBjb250ZW50PSJnaXZlO2dvdmVybm1lbnQ7Y2hpbGRyZW47SW50ZXJuZXQ7aGVscDtyZWZ1cmxfbmV3c195YWhvb19jb20iIHJlZnVybD0icmVmdXJsX25ld3NfeWFob29fY29tIiB0b3BpY3M9InJlZnVybF9uZXdzX3lhaG9vX2NvbSI-%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d91A949D1'); yzq_a('a', '&U=139ur5dmb%2fN%3d91KPXkJe5tc-%2fC%3d390764.8155321.8972181.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d3226908'); } </script> <noscript></noscript></p> <p>In his 21-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Ware told Google to provide the U.S. Justice Department with the addresses of 50,000 randomly selected Web sites indexed by its search engine by April 3.</p> <p>The government plans to use the data for a study in another case in Pennsylvania, where the Bush administration is trying to revive a law meant to shield children from online pornography.</p> <p>Ware, though, decided Google won't have to disclose what people have been looking for on its widely used search engine, handing a significant victory to the company and privacy rights advocates.</p> <p>"We will always be subject to government subpoenas, but the fact that the judge sent a clear message about privacy is reassuring," Google lawyer Nicole Wong wrote on the company's Web site Friday night. "What his ruling means is that neither the government nor anyone else has carte blanche when demanding data from Internet companies."</p> <p>Attempts to reach a spokesman for the Justice Department late Friday weren't immediately successful.</p> <p>The government had asked for the contents of 5,000 randomly selected search requests, dramatically scaling back its initial demands after Google's vehement protests gained widespread attention.</p> <p>When the Justice Department first turned to Ware for help in January, the government wanted an entire week's worth of Google search requests — a list that would encompass queries posed by millions of people.</p> </div>

3 10017 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2006-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 Microsoft <h3><font size="3">Enterprise Data Management</font></h3> <p>In today's connected world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure yet available to your users. With SQL Server 2005, users and information technology (IT) professionals across your organization will benefit from reduced application downtime, increased scalability and performance, and tight yet flexible security controls. SQL Server 2005 also includes many new and improved capabilities to help make your IT staff more productive. SQL Server 2005 includes key enhancements to enterprise data management in the following areas:</p>

<h3><font size="3">Enterprise Data Management</font></h3> <p>In today's connected world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure yet available to your users. With SQL Server 2005, users and information technology (IT) professionals across your organization will benefit from reduced application downtime, increased scalability and performance, and tight yet flexible security controls. SQL Server 2005 also includes many new and improved capabilities to help make your IT staff more productive. SQL Server 2005 includes key enhancements to enterprise data management in the following areas:</p>

5 10023 Predicting Search 2006-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 www Internet <p align="center"><span><strong><font color="#ff0000"><font size="3">Predicting Search </font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">Engine Algorithm Changes</font></span></font></strong></span></p> <p align="left"><span><font color="#ff0000"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">With moderate search engine optimization knowledge, some common sense, and a resourceful and imaginative mind, one can keep his or her web site in good standing with search engines even through the most significant algorithm changes. The recent Google update of October/November 2005, dubbed "Jagger", is what inspired me to write this, as I saw some web sites that previously ranked in the top 20 results for extremely competitive keywords suddenly drop down to the 70th page. Yes, the ebb and flow of search engine rankings is nothing to write home about, but when a web site doesn't regain many ranking spots after such a drop it can tell us that the SEO done on the site may have had some long-term flaws. In this case, the SEO team had not done a good job predicting the direction a search engine would take with its algorithm. <o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p>

<table style="BACKGROUND: black; WIDTH: 194.25pt; mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="259" align="center" border="0" class="MsoNormalTable"> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes"> <td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: #e0dfe3; BACKGROUND: white; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: #e0dfe3; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; WIDTH: 187.5pt; BORDER-TOP-COLOR: #e0dfe3; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: #e0dfe3" width="250"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><br /></span><strong><span style="COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">Predicting Search</font></span></strong><strong><span style="COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br /><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">Engine Algorithm Changes</font></span></strong></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><br /></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">With moderate search engine optimization knowledge, some common sense, and a resourceful and imaginative mind, one can keep his or her web site in good standing with search engines even through the most significant algorithm changes. The recent Google update of October/November 2005, dubbed "Jagger", is what inspired me to write this, as I saw some web sites that previously ranked in the top 20 results for extremely competitive keywords suddenly drop down to the 70th page. Yes, the ebb and flow of search engine rankings is nothing to write home about, but when a web site doesn't regain many ranking spots after such a drop it can tell us that the SEO done on the site may have had some long-term flaws. In this case, the SEO team had not done a good job predicting the direction a search engine would take with its algorithm. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Impossible to predict, you say? Not quite. The ideas behind Google's algorithm come from the minds of fellow humans, not supercomputers. I'm not suggesting that it's easy to "crack the code" so to speak because the actual math behind it is extremely complicated. However, it is possible to understand the general direction that a search engine algorithm will take by keeping in mind that any component of SEO which is possible to manipulate to an abnormal extent will eventually be weighted less and finally rendered obsolete. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One of the first such areas of a web site that started to get abused by webmasters trying to raise their rankings was the keywords meta tag. The tag allows a webmaster to list the web site's most important keywords so the search engine knows when to display that site as a result for a matching search. It was only a matter of time until people started stuffing the tag with irrelevant words that were searched for more frequently than relevant words in an attempt to fool the algorithm. And they did fool it, but not for long. The keywords meta tag was identified as an area that was too susceptible to misuse and was subsequently de-valued to the point where the Google algorithm today doesn't even recognize it when scanning a web page. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Another early tactic which is all but obsolete is repeating keywords at the bottom of a web page and hiding them by changing the color of the text to match the background color. Search engines noticed that this text was not relevant to the visitor and red-flagged sites that employed this method of SEO. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This information is quite basic, but the idea behind the aforementioned algorithm shifts several years ago is still relevant today. With the Jagger update in full swing, people in the SEO world are taking notice that reciprocal links may very well be going the way of the keywords meta tag. (i.e. extinct) Webmasters across the world have long been obsessed with link exchanges and many profitable web sites exist offering services that help webmasters swap links with ease. But with a little foresight, one can see that link trading has its days numbered, as web sites have obtained thousands of incoming links from webmasters who may have nevër even viewed the web site they are trading with. In other words, web site popularity is being manipulated by excessively and unnaturally using an SEO method. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So with keyword meta tags, keyword stuffing within content, and nöw link exchanges simply a part of SEO history, what will be targeted in the future? Well, let's start with what search engines currently look at when ranking a web site and go from there: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On-page Textual Content</span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In the future, look for search engines to utilize ontological analysis of text. In other words, not only your main keywords will play a factor in your rankings, but also words that relate to them. For example, someone trying to sell NFL jerseys online would naturally mention the names of teams and star players. In the past, algorithms might have skipped over those names, deemed them irrelevant to a search for "NFL jerseys." But in the future, search engines will reward those web sites with a higher ranking than those that excessively repeat just "NFL jerseys." With ontological analysis, web sites that speak of not only the main keywords but other relevant words can expect higher rankings. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Conclusion</span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: Write your web site content for your visitors, not search engines. The more naturally written sites can expect to see better results in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Offering Large Amounts of Content</span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This can frequently take the form of dynamic pages. Even nöw, search engines can have a difficult time with dynamic content on web sites. These pages usually have lengthy URLs consisting of numbers and characters such as &, =, and ? The common problem is that the content changes so frequently on these dynamic pages that the page becomes "old" in the search engine's database, thus leaving searchers seeing results that contain old information. Since many dynamic pages are created by web sites displaying hundreds or thousands of products they sell, and the number of people selling items on the Internet will obviously increase in the coming years, you can expect that search engines will improve their technology and do a better job indexing dynamic content in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Conclusion</span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: Put yourself ahead of the game if you are selling products online and invest in database and shopping cart software that is SEO-friendly. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><br style="mso-special-character: line-break" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break" /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></p>

6 10026 ASP.NET AJAX in Action 2007-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 www.asp.net <h3><span><strong>ASP.NET AJAX</strong> in Action</span></h3> <div class="roundedMain"> <p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px">Watch these videos to see what you can do with ASP.NET AJAX in your own applications!</p> <table id="videolist" class="p"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="image"><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/MSAJAX-ToDoList.wmv"><img id="ctl00_CenterContent_ctl00_Img1" style="WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://ajax.asp.net/images/video2-1.jpg" /></a></td> <td> <p><a style="FONT-SIZE: 110%" href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/MSAJAX-ToDoList.wmv"><strong><font size="4">ASP.NET AJAX:<br />A demonstration of ASP.NET AJAX</font></strong></a></p> <p>See how easy it is to build from scratch a “To Do List” management application using ASP.NET 2.0, and then enhance the user experience using the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions.</p> <p style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Duration: 20 minutes, 23 seconds</p> <p><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/MSAJAX-ToDoList.wmv">Watch the video</a> <span style="COLOR: #bbb"> | </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/MSAJAX-ToDoList-Video.zip">Download the video</a> <span style="COLOR: #bbb"> | </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/ToDoList-VB.zip">Get VB code</a> <span style="COLOR: #999"> or </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/ToDoList-CS.zip">C# code</a> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>

<h3><span><strong>ASP.NET AJAX</strong> in Action</span></h3> <div class="roundedMain"> <p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px">Watch these videos to see what you can do with ASP.NET AJAX in your own applications!</p> <table id="videolist" class="p"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="image"><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/MSAJAX-ToDoList.wmv"><img id="ctl00_CenterContent_ctl00_Img1" style="WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://ajax.asp.net/images/video2-1.jpg" /></a></td> <td> <p><a style="FONT-SIZE: 110%" href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/MSAJAX-ToDoList.wmv"><strong><font size="4">ASP.NET AJAX:<br />A demonstration of ASP.NET AJAX</font></strong></a></p> <p>See how easy it is to build from scratch a “To Do List” management application using ASP.NET 2.0, and then enhance the user experience using the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions.</p> <p style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Duration: 20 minutes, 23 seconds</p> <p><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/MSAJAX-ToDoList.wmv">Watch the video</a> <span style="COLOR: #bbb"> | </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/MSAJAX-ToDoList-Video.zip">Download the video</a> <span style="COLOR: #bbb"> | </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/ToDoList-VB.zip">Get VB code</a> <span style="COLOR: #999"> or </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/6/0f651a0f-6f2b-4497-b061-e1b2825e22e0/ToDoList-CS.zip">C# code</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="image"><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-01-Get_Started_with_ASPNET_AJAX.wmv"><img id="ctl00_CenterContent_ctl00_Img2" style="WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://ajax.asp.net/images/video2-2.jpg" /></a></td> <td> <p><a style="FONT-SIZE: 110%" href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-01-Get_Started_with_ASPNET_AJAX.wmv"><strong><font size="4">ASP.NET AJAX Extensions:<br />Installation and setup</font></strong></a></p> <p>Take your first steps toward learning Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX, from downloading and installing the framework to creating your first AJAX-style application.</p> <p style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Duration: 11 minutes, 58 seconds</p> <p><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-01-Get_Started_with_ASPNET_AJAX.wmv">Watch the video</a> <span style="COLOR: #bbb"> | </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-01-Get_Started_with_ASPNET_AJAX.zip">Download the video</a> <span style="COLOR: #bbb"> | </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-01-Get_Started_with_ASPNET_AJAX-VB.zip">Get VB code</a> <span style="COLOR: #999"> or </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-01-Get_Started_with_ASPNET_AJAX-CS.zip">C# code</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="image"><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-02-GetStarted-AJAX-Toolkit.wmv"><img id="ctl00_CenterContent_ctl00_Img3" style="WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://ajax.asp.net/images/video2-3.jpg" /></a></td> <td> <p><a style="FONT-SIZE: 110%" href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-02-GetStarted-AJAX-Toolkit.wmv"><strong><font size="4">ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit:<br />Installation and getting started</font></strong></a></p> <p>Learn how to extend your ASP.NET AJAX applications using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. This video starts with the very basics, including downloading and installing the toolkit.</p> <p style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Duration: 11 minutes, 16 seconds</p> <p><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-02-GetStarted-AJAX-Toolkit.wmv">Watch the video</a> <span style="COLOR: #bbb"> | </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-02-GetStarted-AJAX-Toolkit.zip">Download the video</a> <span style="COLOR: #bbb"> | </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-02-GetStarted-AJAX-Toolkit-VB.zip">Get VB code</a> <span style="COLOR: #999"> or </span> <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/d/8/9d8a3ff9-e520-4c69-a7a0-aad7a3dc596d/HDI-02-GetStarted-AJAX-Toolkit-CS.zip">C# code</a> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>

4 10027 Visual Studio 2008 Downloads 2007-09-12T00:00:00-04:00 www.microsoft.com <h3>Visual Studio 2008 Downloads</h3><font size="2"><p><img title="Visual Studio 2008" alt="Visual Studio 2008 Logo" src="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.VS08_v(en-us,MSDN.10).png" align="left" /></p></font><h5>Get an early look at Visual Studio 2008</h5><font size="2"><p>The next version of Visual Studio, Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008, will provide an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it will continue in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. To enable early feedback, this page provides links to prerelease versions of Visual Studio 2008, and for technologies that we plan to include in it. As previews of additional technologies become available, we will make them available from this page.</p></font>

<h3>Visual Studio 2008 Downloads</h3> <font size="2"> <p> <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="middle" width="1%"><img title="Visual Studio 2008" alt="Visual Studio 2008 Logo" src="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.VS08_v(en-us,MSDN.10).png" align="middle" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> <p>The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. As with all prerelease software, we encourage you only to install these on a secondary machine, or in a virtual machine, as they are not supported by Microsoft Services support teams. As the goal of these previews is to gather feedback from the developer community, please use <a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl02',this);" href="http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio/">Microsoft Connect</a> to report any issues, or to suggest improvements. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from <a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl03',this);" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/subscriptions/default.aspx">MSDN Subscriber Downloads</a>.</p> <blockquote> <h2>Files & Disc Images for Self-installation</h2> <p>If you prefer to install the software yourself, you can download separate disc images for the following products: </p> <ul> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl04',this);" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/future/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Express Editions</a> </li> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl05',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7171915">Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Standard Edition</a> </li> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl06',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7171916">Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Professional Edition</a> </li> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl07',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7171917">Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite</a> </li> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl08',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7171919">Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Foundation Server</a> </li> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl09',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7171922">Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Test Load Agent</a> </li> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl10',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7171921">MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2</a></li> </ul> <blockquote> <p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong></p> <ul> <li>After the Beta 2 installation has finished, you should run this <a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl11',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=95792"><span title="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=95792">script</span></a> to ensure that the installation of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 will not affect the development of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 applications. </li> <li>To install Team Foundation Server, you must follow the steps and system requirements details on the download page. </li> <li>When installing prerelease software, we advise that you do not install it on a production machine.</li> </ul> </blockquote> <h2>VPC Images with Pre-installed Software</h2> <p>If you prefer the convenience of evaluating prerelease software in a virtual machine environment, you can download VPC images for the following products that include pre-installed instances of the prerelease software indicated, including any required prerequisite software. You will need Virtual PC or Virtual Server to run this image. Depending on your hardware, the download files make take between 30-60 minutes to decompress these self-extracting files.</p> <ul> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl12',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7171918">Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite VPC</a> </li> <li><a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl13',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7171920">Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite & Team Foundation Server VPC</a></li> </ul> <blockquote> <p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong></p> <ul> <li>After extracting and opening the VPC, you should run this <a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl14',this);" href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=95792"><span title="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=95792">script</span></a> to ensure that the installation of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 will not affect the development of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 applications. </li> <li>These downloads are differencing disks. To use them, you must also download <a onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_ctl01|ctl00_ctl15',this);" href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/4/9/5499b008-8ae7-46f0-89ae-aeeb18df67ae/vsctpbase.exe">Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Base Image</a> contains the OS and is a one-time download for all the Virtual PC images that lay on top of it. </li> </ul> </blockquote></blockquote></font> <td valign="top" width="99%"> <h3>Get an early look at Visual Studio 2008</h3> <font size="2"> <p>The next version of Visual Studio, Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008, will provide an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it will continue in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. To enable early feedback, this page provides links to prerelease versions of Visual Studio 2008, and for technologies that we plan to include in it. As previews of additional technologies become available, we will make them available from this page.</p> </font></td>

8 10028 Cool new ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight demo application 2007-09-12T00:00:00-04:00 http://blogs.msdn.com <h3 class="entryviewheading">Cool new ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight demo application</h3><p>Steve Marx apparently never gets tired of writing video centric web sites... <a href="http://smarx.com/posts/my-own-mix07-video-player-using-all-the-new-stuff.aspx">he has done it again</a> and it is very cool.  I am impressed with the fact that there is so few lines of code (in fact there is more CSS markup than code).. this is due to the simplicity that Linq, ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight brings to the developers.  </p><p><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Screencasts/330958_MIX07VideosPlayer.wmv"><img src="http://smarx.com/images/mix07video_screenshot.jpg" width="380" alt="" /></a> </p>

<h3 class="entryviewheading">Cool new ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight demo application</h3> <p>Steve Marx apparently never gets tired of writing video centric web sites... <a href="http://smarx.com/posts/my-own-mix07-video-player-using-all-the-new-stuff.aspx">he has done it again</a> and it is very cool.  I am impressed with the fact that there is so few lines of code (in fact there is more CSS markup than code).. this is due to the simplicity that Linq, ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight brings to the developers.  </p> <p><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Screencasts/330958_MIX07VideosPlayer.wmv"><img src="http://smarx.com/images/mix07video_screenshot.jpg" alt="" /></a> </p> <p>Here is the <a href="http://smarx.com/sample/MIX07VideosCode.zip">the code</a> and a <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Screencasts/330958_MIX07VideosPlayer.wmv">screen cast</a>. </p> <p>  </p> <p>Steve uses a bunch of new stuff!</p> <ul> <li>Searching and paging via ListView, DataPager, and LinqDataSource (all new ASP.NET controls with .NET 3.5). </li> <li>Video player via the Media control in the ASP.NET Futures July CTP (uses Silverlight 1.0 RC). </li> <li>Popup biographies and "more/less" collapsible details via the new .NET 3.5-compatible drop of the AJAX Control Toolkit. </li> <li>Back/forward buttons support via the History control in the ASP.NET Futures July CTP.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Enjoy!</p>

12 10030 SQL Server 2008 : Your Data, Any Place, Any Time 2007-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/ <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10px">Your Data, Any Place, Any Time</h3> <p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10px">Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications, reduce time and cost of development and management of applications, and deliver actionable insight to your entire organization.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 15px" width="66%"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><strong><font size="4"><span class="orangeBold">Trusted</span><br /></font></strong>Run your most mission critical applications on a secure, reliable, and scalable platform. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><span class="orangeBold"><strong><font size="4">Productive</font></strong></span><br />Reduce the cost of managing your data infrastructure while streamlining development of data applications. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><strong><font size="4"><span class="orangeBold">Intelligent</span><br /></font></strong>Drive business intelligence throughout your organization. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td valign="top" width="33%"> <div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0px"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_left.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td width="100%"><img height="8" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_border.png" width="100%" alt="" /></td> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_right.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10" height="100%"><img height="100%" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/left_border.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/overviewdemo/"><img alt="Ted Kummert, Vice President Data & Storage Platform" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/spot/kummert.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <div> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/all_up/index.html"><img alt="Watch the video: SQL Server Platform Vision" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="right" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/all_up/index.html"><strong>Watch the video:</strong></a><br>SQL Server Platform Vision <br /></p> </div> </td> <td width="10" height="100%"><img height="100%" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/right_border.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_left.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td width="100%"><img height="8" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_border.png" width="100%" alt="" /></td> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_right.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10px">Your Data, Any Place, Any Time</h3> <p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10px">Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications, reduce time and cost of development and management of applications, and deliver actionable insight to your entire organization.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 15px" width="66%"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><span class="orangeBold"><font size="4"><strong>Trusted</strong></font></span><br />Run your most mission critical applications on a secure, reliable, and scalable platform. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><span class="orangeBold"><strong><font size="4">Productive</font></strong></span><br />Reduce the cost of managing your data infrastructure while streamlining development of data applications. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="left" border="0" /></td> <td> <p><span class="orangeBold"><font size="4"><strong>Intelligent</strong></font></span><br />Drive business intelligence throughout your organization. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td valign="top" width="33%"> <div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0px"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_left.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td width="100%"><img height="8" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_border.png" width="100%" alt="" /></td> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/top_right.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10" height="100%"><img height="100%" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/left_border.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/overviewdemo/"><img alt="Ted Kummert, Vice President Data & Storage Platform" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/spot/kummert.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <div> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/all_up/index.html"><img alt="Watch the video: SQL Server Platform Vision" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/sql/media/homepage/65161_arrow.gif" align="right" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/all_up/index.html"><font size="2"><strong>Watch the video:</strong></font></a> SQL Server Platform Vision <br /></p> </div> </td> <td width="10" height="100%"><img height="100%" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/right_border.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_left.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> <td width="100%"><img height="8" src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_border.png" width="100%" alt="" /></td> <td><img src="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/images/btm_right.png" width="10" alt="" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="tableHighlights"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <h4 class="highlights">SQL Server 2008 Solutions</h4> <ul class="orange"> <li><strong><font size="3">Business Intelligence</font></strong><br />SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence platform provides a scalable infrastructure that enables information technology to drive business intelligence throughout your organization and deliver intelligence where users want it. <br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/bi.mspx">Learn more </a></li> <li><strong><font size="3">Data Warehousing</font></strong><br />Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive view of the business, by increasing the freshness of the data, incorporating all your systems, and validating the data while reducing the burden on your IT department. <br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/datawarehouse.mspx">Learn more</a> </li> <li><strong><font size="3">Online Transaction Processing</font></strong><br />SQL Server 2008 provides a scalable, high performance database engine for mission-critical applications that require the highest levels of availability and security, while reducing the total cost of ownership through enhanced enterprise-class manageability.<br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/oltp.mspx">Learn more</a> </li> <li><strong><font size="3">Comprehensive Data Programmability</font></strong><br />Microsoft's Data Programmability platform provides developers with a comprehensive programming framework, web services and data connectivity technologies to efficiently access and manage disparate data.<br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/developer.mspx">Learn more</a> </li> <li><strong><font size="3">Server Consolidation</font></strong><br />SQL Server 2008 reduces hardware and maintenance costs by providing a flexible server consolidation solution with enterprise-class manageability and performance.<br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/solutions/consolidate.mspx">Learn more</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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