TechMela RoadShow

MSDN now brings to you TechMela On the Road, a 4 city roadshow and a second chance to be a part of the biggest, most comprehensive event in the history of Microsoft India. So get ready to learn from experts and interact with fellow developers, that too in the luxury of your own city!

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Released

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 (code name Orcas) is out and available for download from the following URL. This Beta is near feature complete!

Adventures with Longhorn, MOSS and Orcas

Been trying to setup MOSS and Orcas Beta 1 on Longhorn Beta 3 (Windows Server 2008). I was able to successfully setup MOSS and Orcas Beta 1. Beta 3 includes WSS 3.0 and .NET FX 3.0 built into it and these components need to be installed from the OS.

Orcas TFS Beta 1 at the moment still asks for WSS 2.0 SP2 and refused to accept WSS 3.0 as a valid SharePoint. Hopefully Beta 2 should address this issue and allow for installing Orcas TFS with WSS 3.0! More adventures to follow...

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2

For those of you running software on Virtual Machines, the SP1 for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 has been released. Download from the following URL.

Introducing The Feature Framework

Check out my new article on the June Issue of asp.NET PRO Magazine. If you were a TechEd 2007 attendee then you would have got a copy of this issue at TechEd. If not download the June 2007 Issue from this URL.

Article: Introducing Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0

New article on II 7.0 published on DevX here.

New Releases and Trials

Office 2007 and Windows Vista are available on MSDN Subscriber for downloading at the moment. MOSS 2007 is available as a Trial version for 180 days from this site

AGGREG 8

A new social networking community for Microsoft Professionals!!
Check it out here...