Free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard and Free ASP.net 2.0 Training
Microsoft, Dr. Dobbs and O'REILLY are offering Free ASP.net 2.0 training with courses for JSP, PHP and Coldfusion developers looking to migrate over to the dark side. To sweeten the pie you also get a nice pack of freebies, including a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, a 50% discount on a MCP exam and some other goodies. Regardless it's a good deal and the training...
Read MoreMicrosoft Expression Interactive and Graphic Design Free Betas
Microsoft has recently released updated CTPs of their Expression Interactive Design and Graphics Design applications (personally I can't wait to see the Web Design application when it's released or atleast made available via beta). You can get details on what the Expression product line are at: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx The Expression Dev Team has a blog...
Read MoreVirtual Server 2005 R2 & iSCSI
Microsoft has an article available regarding Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI. I've been digging around on the forums and it seems the only way to really get the performance out of this is by having the iSCSI storage on the actual host machine. I haven't played with it, don't know enough about it but I do know iSCSI is way cool and I'm dying to play with it....
Read MoreSQL2005 Express Edition, Free Free Free
SQL2005 Express Edition is Microsoft's follow up to MSDE2000. MSDE picked up tons of following and has been in use all over the place. Unfortunately for a web application it really didn't cut it and would be quickly outgrown. SQL2005 EE will replace MSDE and doesn't have the same 20 concurrent connections limitation that MSDE had. Here's the new limitations for SQL2005 Express...
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