Following a partnership between Microsoft and Yammer, the Yammer Outlook plugin for Outlook 2007 was released recently. Using this plugin, Outlook users can now post status updates, view feeds, reply to messages, upload attachments, send messages to Yammer groups, and invite colleagues to join Yammer from within their inbox. Download here.
Today Microsoft released it’s free consumer anti-malware software, Microsoft Security Essentials, to the public. So, what’s is this, and how is it different from Forefront? Well, Forefront Client Security is the current released client anti-malware product for the corporate market, and Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 is the next version slated to be released in H1 2010. Similarities between MSE and FCS/FEP: Same core protection engine which includes protection from viruses, spyware, and rootkits. Uses the same telemetry data and global security response team...
Microsoft has provided us with a new release. This time is CTP2 of Microsoft StreamInsight, an event stream processor and optimizer, made available on the 18th: “Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight is a platform for the continuous and incremental processing of unending sequences of events (event streams) from multiple sources with near-zero latency. These requirements, shared by vertical markets such as manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, financial services, health care, web analytics, and IT and data center monitoring, make traditional store and query techniques impractical for timely and relevant processing of data. StreamInsight allows software developers...
Last friday, Jeff and the Gallio team made available the 3.1 version of Gallio. For those who don’t know, Gallio is a test automation platform. It provides tools and services needed to run and manipulate tests written using a wide range of other frameworks. Most any existing framework can be integrated given a suitable adapter plugin. This release includes many new features, better performance, and improved robustness. Highlights: Video capture and embedding in test reports. RSpec! Support for .Net Framework 4.0. ...
I am hereby apologizing for any site availability issues. I’ve requested a server update that is taking too much time, and the end of this novel is completely out of my control.
Here’s a good server-side validation solution for your ASP.NET MVC Web Apps. xVal is an open source project available at codeplex, that aims to fulfill your web form validation needs while ASP.NET MVC 2.0, and it’s own validation features, isn’t available yet. Version 1.0 was released today and you can check it out here.
Well... Summer vacations are over. I'm officially back from the beach and the sun. These past weeks I’ve been involved in some mind-refreshing activities to give my precious neurons some Microsoft rest. Or force them to… Anyway, It wasn’t a complete success, because I ended up taking my laptop with me, and Visual Studio 2008 counter increased a few times these past two weeks… Nevertheless, from jogging and Airsoft to water ski and surf, It has been a lot of fun. This year I made my (lousy) return to water ski, and went for a...