Technical News and tips from My learning

On 22nd of this month, i got a mail from Abhisheik about this event. This is the first of it’s kind by Microsoft to connect all bloggers.  Points that rolled during this meeting are 0) Freebees at TechEd towards. MCP Exam tokens to attend any one exam for free 1) Naked Browser Challenge from http://merawindows.com 2) Silverlight 3 features a) Smooth Streaming b) APIs are open to Plugins new features by community to integrate with Silverlight Give a look at SmoothHD.com for some demos on smooth streaming 3) Release of Expression Blend 3 4) Pandu spoke about Sketch Flow in Expression Blend3 5) Nano Car experience and IPLT20 are developed using .NET technology – a feel good factor. Hope Silverlight streaming would be next generation of media transmission 6) IE 8 and WebSlices and Accelerators are going to be the part of IE8 highlights and key elements of success 7) Interoperability Lab from Microsoft is being setup at Bangalore and this is open for all public with out ...

Yes, am mentioning about Security at Silverlight applications. Well, most of the developers think that Security is not the feature of the application. and they claim that it is the responsibility of the framework on which they are developing, be it as .net or java or any other. Thus, they don’t even worry about why security should be the core of any application and it should be given prime attention. Microsoft has an initiative towards security with in any software development life cycle. This initiative is known as SDL, Security Development Lifecycle. Their definition of SDL is neatly designed as displayed. And also they have released a security guidance document for writing and deploying Silverlight Application. The document can be downloaded from this link . The TOC is some thing like this Threat Modeling and the Security Development Lifecycle Background of Web Security Same-Origin Policy Cross-Site Scripting Attacks Cross-Site Request Forgeries (CSRF) A CSRF Mitigation: Nonces ...

Today, I've downloaded IE8 beta 1 as well as Silverlight 2.0 installed on my laptop. This day have seen many products released at Mix 08 by great personalities like Scott Guthrie ,  Bob Familiar , Guy Burstein , IEBlog , etc. According to Jane Kim at an interview for Mix08 , Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8. Apart of IE8.0 and SL2.0, there are other products such as Expression Blend 2.5 March CTP Expression Web 2 Beta Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for VS2008 I've downloaded all these .. and am trying out one by one .. what about you??

The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management. I've downloaded this, if any one require this, you can drop me a mail or can collect from me.

Servers belong to Office. All these days, wife's worry that their husband not only work wholly with LapTop, on top of this, Micorosoft is coming out with one more product titling as " Stay at Home Servers ". Don't you believe this .. pay a visit to their product page . Microsoft addresses this as " WindowsHomeServer ". The advantages explained in nice video. This video has all the possible places that every home can have and what every one can do from every location of common home. Where are we going .. and where is the infrastructure is moving to ?? anyhow, when will India have all such infrastructure inbuilt apartments or homes built with such facilities.

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview provides a glimpse of new, powerful functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET next year. This release delivers features that enable high-productivity data scenarios and creates the best server for rich clients. The release includes an ASP.NET model-view-controller (MVC) framework, ASP.NET Dynamic Data , Silverlight controls for ASP.NET , ADO.NET Data Services , an Entity Framework runtime, new features for ASP.NET AJAX and a wide variety of API References as hosted at ASP.NET Official site. You can download the ASP.NET 3.5 Preview , which contain all the Siliverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and many more. There is a forum specially dedicated to ASP.NET 3.5 Preview at ASP.NET Forums .

For all those who didn't attend the Mix at UK during Sep 07, here is a good news. The good news is not only for those who didn't attend the MIX, but for all the technology lovers as well as persons who are passionate about latest technology happenings. The two day event is now available for offline viewing at their website. Here is the link that give you the download of all the videos of all the sessions that happened. Isn't nice for all of us, who missed the event and who couldn't afford to attend the event. It's time to download and view them offline. Am going to download all the events, if any of you doesn't have the i-net connectivity or by any issue, could not download these videos, drop me a mail at DSKCHECK at MSN dot COM Catch you later..

Siderys webpage is designed using Sliverlight. An awesome work. This work simply demonstrates the power of using Sliverlight. I can use this as starting point to present the Silverlight technology to my customers. Did you see this ??? Pl visit that page and post back your comments on the same. Blogged with Flock