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Microsoft has finally released the upcoming version of their SQL Server, called “Sql Server 2008 Release 2(R2)”. Previously i have mentioned in my post that SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM is Nearer . Well it’s a dream come true. It’s finally become RTM. cool.. I think Microsoft had a target set on their mind, withing the April 2010 they will release all their major softwares will rock the world. Cool. Nice work SQL Server 2008 R2 – Team, a nice job well done.
SQL Server 2008 R2 (formerly codenamed SQL Server “Kilimanjaro”) was announced at TechEd 2009, and was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2010. SQL Server 2008 R2 adds certain features to SQL Server 2008 including master data management system branded as Master Data Services, a centralized console to manage multiple SQL Server instances, and support for more than 64 logical processors.
RTM Build Number is “10.50.1600.1”
You can read the release notes and download the ;atest release bits from the following links.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – Management Tools
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio Express (SSMSE) is an integrated environment for accessing, configuring, managing, administering, and developing all components of SQL Server Express. |
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 End User License Agreements
The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 End User License Agreements provide the legal terms and conditions for using the SQL Server 2008 R2 core software |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – Express
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Express is a powerful and reliable data management system that delivers a rich set of features, data protection, and performance for embedded applications, lightweight Web Sites and applications, and local data stores. |
SQL Server Modeling CTP Nov 2009 Release 3 (formerly “Oslo”)
SQL Server Modeling (formerly code name “Oslo”) is a set of future technologies that provide significant productivity gains across the lifecycle of .NET applications by enabling developers, architects, and IT professionals to work together more effectively with SQL Server at the center of the application lifecycle. |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Evaluation : Trial Experience for IT Professionals
Download SQL Server 2008 R2 180-day Trial Software. Building on SQL Server 2008, R2 provides an even more scalable data platform with comprehensive tools for managing your databases and applications, improving the quality of your data, and empowering your users to build rich analyses and reports using tools they are already familiar with. |
Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Evaluation : Trial Experience for Developers
Download SQL Server 2008 R2 180-day Trial Software. Building on SQL Server 2008, R2 provides an even more scalable data platform with comprehensive tools for managing your databases and applications,improving the quality of your data, and empowering your users to build rich analyses and reports using tools they are already familiar with. |
Microsoft SQL Server2008 R2 RTM – Express with Advanced Services
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Express is a powerful and reliable data management system that delivers a rich set of features, data protection, and performance for embedded applications, lightweight Web Sites and applications, and local data stores |
SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP
Download the SQL Server Driver for PHP v2.0 CTP1 to enable a PHP application to use the PDO (PHP Data Objects) API for using SQL Server for data storage |
Microsoft said on Friday that its new Office suite, due in May for businesses and June for consumers, has reached the released to manufacturing (RTM) milestone.
In a company blog posting, Takeshi Numoto - Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Office, confirmed that Microsoft had hit the RTM milestone. “RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release and our engineering team has poured their heart and soul into reaching this milestone,” Numoto said. Microsoft also said that 7.5 million people download the beta version of Office 2010, 3 times the number of 2007 beta downloads.
Microsoft is currently running an Office 2010 Technology Guarantee. Neowin revealed Microsoft’s plans for the guarantee program. Customers who purchase Office 2007, or a new PC with Office 2007, and activate it between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010 will be offered a free upgrade to Office 2010. Copies will be available online, via download, at no additional cost.
Microsoft also confirmed that Volume License customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the RTM bits on April 27. MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to download Office 2010 RTM on April 22.
Microsoft is holding business launch event for Office 2010 in New York on May 12. Consumers will not be able to purchase the product until June. Although Microsoft officials will not confirm the exact date, Neowin firmly believes this will be June 15. In January Microsoft announced Office 2010 pricing. The professional edition will retail for $499 boxed. Office 2010 will be released in at least five different flavours, including a free version that includes Microsoft Word and Excel, but comes with limited functionality and includes advertisements. The editions of Office 2010 will include Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Professional and Professional Academic.
SOURCE: TimWarren, NeoWin.NET
The release-to-the-web (RTW) version of Silverlight 4 is available for free download, as of April 15, as Microsoft officials said it would be earlier this week.
As per Silverlight.net
Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline. Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by the .NET framework and compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems, bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works. For information on the new features in Silverlight, and how it compares to previous versions, be sure to visit the overview and feature matrix page. For additional information, including details on the features, visit the Silverlight 4 Information Page.
Silverlight is a browser plug-in that supports multimedia content. It also is a slimmed-down, cross-platform version of Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) programming model. Each successive iteration of Silverlight includes more and more WPF functionality (and vice versa).
Silverlight 4 adds support for data binding, enterprise networking and printing, and lots of other features that are likely to make the platform more appealing to folks writing not just single-function, lightweight Web apps, but enterprise apps, as well. Microsoft’s Tim Heuer has links to the full list of Silverlight 4 features on his blog.
Silverlight also is Microsoft’s primary development environment for Windows Phone 7 devices, but the current Silverlight mobile dev platform is a hybrid of Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4, not pure Silverlight 4. Microsoft officials have said that Silverlight won’t be running (as an Internet Explorer plug-in, at least) on the first Windows Phone 7 devices that ship by this holiday season.
If you already have Visual Studio 2010 installed, get everything you need for Silverlight 4 RTW development by downloading the Silverlight 4 Tools RC2 for Visual Studio.
That means Silverlight 4.0 plug in has been released to the web(RTW) and available to download as your browser plugin. But for Visual Studio 2010 developement tools for Silerlight 4, it still in RC2(Release Candidate 2), which works well with RTM version of Visual Studio 2010.
So download the Silverlight 4 Tools RC2 for Visual Studio 2010 and start your development.
One important note for developers, as acknowledged on the Silverlight download site:
“Visual Studio 2010 can be installed side-by-side with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. For Silverlight 4 development, you will need the released version of Visual Studio 2010. Please read the known issue on installing Visual Studio 2010 if you already have the Silverlight 3 SDK installed.”
For those who were using Visual Studio 2005/2008 it would be confusing too see the Editions on Visual Studio 2010.
Visual Studio 2010 comes in mainly 3 editions
Visual Stduio 2010 – Ultimate ( Similar to Team Suite in VS2005/2008), has all the full functionality.
Visual Studio 2010 – Premium ( Similar to VS2005/2008 Team Editions)
Visual studio 2010 – Professional ( Similar to VS2005/2008 Professional / Standard )
apart from the above, we have a Visual Studio 2010- Express Edition, a free version targetting certain specific development.
I thought of putting in a simple diagram explains you, How the editions differ from Visual Studio 2005/2008 and Visual Studio 2010. Left side has the editions in Visual Studio 2005/2008 editions and right side has the matching edition for Visual Studio 2010.
Have Fun..
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft.
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 focuses on the core pillars of developer experience, support for the latest platforms, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements.
Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista
Visual Studio 2010 can be installed on the following operating systems:
o Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 – all editions except Starter Edition
o Windows XP (x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions except Starter Edition
o Windows Vista (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 1 – all editions except Starter Edition
o Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
o Windows Server 2003 (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2
o Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86 and x64)
o Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2
o Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Its focuses on the core pillars of developer experience, support for the latest platforms, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements. The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software component which can be added to the Microsoft Windows operating system. It provides a large body of pre-coded solutions to common program requirements, and manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft offering, and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform. The pre-coded solutions in the namespaces form the framework’s class library and cover a large range of programming needs in areas including the user interface, data access, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications.
The functions of the class library are used by programmers who combine them with their own code to produce applications.
Programs written for the .NET Framework execute in a software environment that manages the program’s runtime requirements. This runtime environment, which is also a part of the .NET Framework, is known as the Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR provides the appearance of an application virtual machine, so that programmers need not consider the capabilities of the specific CPU that will execute the program. The CLR also provides other important services such as security mechanisms, memory management, and exception handling. The class library and the CLR together compose the .NET Framework. The framework is intended to make it easier to develop computer applications and to reduce the vulnerability of applications and computers to security threats.
The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provides the following new features and improvements:
* Improvements in Common Language Runtime (CLR) and Base Class Library (BCL)
o Performance improvement including better multicore support, background garbage collection, and profiler attach on server.
o New memory mapped file and numeric types.
o Easier debugging including dump debugging, Watson minidumps, mixed mode debugging for 64 bit and code contracts.
o For a comprehensive list of enhancements to CLR and BCL go here.
* Innovations in the Visual Basic and C# languages, for example statement lambdas, implicit line continuations, dynamic dispatch, and named/optional parameters.
* Improvements in Data Access and Modeling
o The Entity Framework enables developers to program against relational databases using .NET objects and Language Integrated Query (LINQ). It has many new features, including persistence ignorance and POCO support, foreign key associations, lazy loading, test-driven development support, functions in the model, and new LINQ operators. Additional features include better n-tier support with self-tracking entities, customizable code generation using T4 templates, model first development, an improved designer experience, better performance, and pluralization of entity sets. For more information go here.
o WCF Data Services is a component of the .NET Framework that enables you to create REST-based services and applications that use the Open Data Protocol (OData) to expose and consume data over the Web. WCF Data Services has many new features, including enhanced BLOB support, data binding, row count, feed customization, projections, and request pipeline improvements. Built-in integration with Microsoft Office 2010 now makes it possible to expose Microsoft Office SharePoint Server data as an OData feed and access that data feed by using the WCF Data Services client library. For more information go here.
* Enhancements to ASP.NET
o More control over HTML, element IDs and custom CSS that make it much easier to create standards-compliant and SEO-friendly web forms.
o New dynamic data features including new query filters, entity templates, richer support for Entity Framework 4, and validation and templating features that can be easily applied to existing web forms.
o Web forms support for new AJAX library improvements including built-in support for content delivery networks (CDNs).
o For a comprehensive list of enhancements to ASP.NET go here.
* Improvements in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
o Added support for Windows 7 multi-touch, ribbon controls, and taskbar extensibility features.
o Added support for Surface 2.0 SDK.
o New line-of-business controls including charting control, smart edit, data grid, and others that improve the experience for developers who build data centric applications.
o Improvements in performance and scalability.
o Visual improvements in text clarity, layout pixel snapping, localization, and interoperability.
o For a comprehensive list of enhancements to WPF go here.
* Improvements to Windows Workflow (WF) that enable developers to better host and interact with workflows. These include an improved activity programming model, an improved designer experience, a new flowchart modeling style, an expanded activity palette, workflow-rules integration, and new message correlation features. The .NET Framework 4 also offers significant performance gains for WF-based workflows. For a comprehensive list of enhancements to WF go here.
* Improvements to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) such as support for WCF Workflow Services enabling workflow programs with messaging activities, correlation support. Additionally, .NET Framework 4 provides new WCF features such as service discovery, routing service, REST support, diagnostics, and performance. For a comprehensive list of enhancements to WCF go here.
* Innovative new parallel-programming features such as parallel loop support, Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), and coordination data structures which let developers harness the power of multi-core processors.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7; Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2; Windows Vista Service Pack 2; Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Homepage – http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/
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