The development of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 (2011) has finally came to a close, with the final RTM version of Windows Live Essentials suite of software products been released to general public for free download. Windows Live Essentials 2011 needs no more introduction, as most people should know that it’s a suite product that… Continue reading
Released: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available for download. What’s New: 15K partitioning Improvement. Introduced support for a maximum of 15,000 partitions in tables and indexes in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 in the Enterprise, Developer and Evaluation Editions. For details on how this support can be enabled and… Continue reading
Open XML SDK 2.0
Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office The Open XML Format SDK 2.0 is a superset of the Open XML SDK 1.0. In addition to the functionality provided by the Open XML SDK 1.0, it leverages.NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) and provides classes to construct and query the contents of parts within a package. You can… Continue reading
Creating Excel Files from DataSet using OpenXML 2.0 – C#
Introduction It is quite often we programmers have to develop business applications which provides the facility for the end-user, such as “Export to Excel”, dumping report information to an Excel worksheet and mail them to the user. Since excel is a good medium to generate easy to use reports, calculation, sales forcasts etc. Imagine that… Continue reading
Released: BizTalk Server 2010 – Developer Edition
BizTalk Server 2010 is an integration server that provides connectivity, Business Process Management (BPM), and SOA/ESB capabilities. It also includes Business to Business (B2B) integration capabilities, Adapters, Accelerators, and an RFID platform. BizTalk Server 2010 offers significant enhancements to help integrate heterogeneous Line-of-business systems with Windows .NET and SharePoint based applications to optimize user productivity,… Continue reading
Introducing Book: Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4
Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4 by Pablo Cibraro, Kurt Claeys, Fabio Cozzolino, Johann Grabner Book Description A guide to architecting, designing, and building distributed applications with Windows Communication Foundation Windows Communication Foundation is the .NET technology that is used to build service-oriented applications, exchange messages in various communication scenarios, and run… Continue reading