Hi all,

MS TechEd India 2006 is on the way to India. If you get a chance, try to get register.

Start to catch this event details right here..totally its a three day event..First 2 days for developers and last day for IT professionals. Tech•Ed 2006 India travels across six cities in the month of June - New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. 

 http://www.microsoft.com/india/teched2006 or www.techedindia.com

Bangalore dates. - June 22,23,24

Until keep counting !

Mahesh

Microsoft is launching two of its biggest products for the developer community shortly this year -

Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.

ISV Community Days give you an opportunity to dive deeper into these products before they hit the market.

Hurry! Seats are limited. Register for this event by calling the numbers given above or replying to isvms@erfolgcs.com. (There are no registration/attendance charges)

09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
 Registration
 
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
 SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
 
11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
 Windows Forms: Making the most of WinForms 2.0 Data Binding
 
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
 Lunch Break
 
02:15 PM - 03:45 PM
 ASP.NET 2.0: Building Data-Driven Web Sites in ASP.NET 2.0
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Recap of - MS ISV Community Days,Lee Merdien,Bangalore-

All about VS 2005 (SQL + ASP.NET + VS IDE )

Hmm, after a great event and presentation, I'm completly brain drained and no words to write..I feel great energy TODAY ...YES

Here few important things i recovered from my diary.

I started using VS 2005 beta since this June 1'st.., so one month experience helped me to grab those concepts, slides and able to Visualize myself...but still few hidden concepts also learned regarding SQL 2005 and ASP.NET.

But as for VS 2005 is concerned i almost aware about new features....so i had a great time to visualize the DEMO and go ahead....

Here is the blog grows about ISV - Starts from 10.AM

10:00 AM - Welcome Note by Deepak Gulati (http://devfun.blogspot.com) "

Monad - new command line sheel for VS *Orcas - New version of Visual studio and Microsoft future roadmap...etc

10:30 AM - SQL Server 2005 for developers by Praveen Shirvastava(MVP)

Praveen started with clear picture & TOC of SQL 2005 and started listing one by one with interesting DEMO for each concepts.so overall great useful for DEVELOPERS perspective.

Audience fired few interesting queries, so it was a very good session so for all...well packed with good strength of 230 developers...

Here is the few important things to be considered,

(1) |SQL Server 2005 - featues * new |

|Reporting service,OLAP,Notification Services,DTS,Replication services,Relation DB|

(2) Best uses of SQLCLR Computations Functions, Scalar functions, Streaming table values using Sql reader

 I – Large computation (close to DB) – SQL CLR (day to day DB programmers easier)

II – Bunch of Join, Cursor - TSQL

 For simple CRUD commands say create,rename,update and delete – Not suggestable to use SQL CLR

 (3) XML in SQL ?

*Send and receive as XML

*Deal XML directly in the data table

*Xquery support

 *We can define XML as - column, Variable, stored proc

(4) CTE - Common table Expressions – for recursive calculations

Temp named resultset Replacement with subquery Can be used with select/insert/update/delete Starts with ‘WITH’ PIVOT – turns rows into columns (bunch of columns) and UNPIVOT the same

(5) Ranking and Windowing Functions : Row Number,Rank,Dense rank,NTILE(n) Ranking –Ordering , Windowing

(6) Output clause – returns automatic output shows the user what data is updated or deleted

(7) Handling exceptions

@@Error set on each statement

Microsoft Security Technet Session : Hotel Senate, BLR  - a report !!!
Oh thank god, atleast i got half day permission[1-4.30 PM] for attending security briefings.
Because of ISO Auditing in my company, situation forced me to sit upto 1'o clock. As soon as I got permission,jumped into an auto,rushed towards hotel and it was exactly clock ticking 1.30,without hesitation i started having my lunch @ hotel which includes fish items and few chicken pieces :),little bit rice & fruits.
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Session 1[2.00 PM]"Debunking security Myths" -by detlef eckert,MS,Australia
 He throwed few importance issues of security,tweaks & updates. In which five security strategies listed below,
 1. Secure platform - OS related
 2. Imp of updates mgmt - updated patches..
 3. Active protection technology - blaster live protection etc..
 4. Enabling security business scenario - PKI, double authentication etc..
 5. Security Eco system

He also shared few tools related to security,

 *MSBA [ MS baseline sec Analyser ]
 *MS Antispyware - GAINT [acquired by MS]
 *Malicious code removal tool
 *Antivirus - Sybari[antivirus company acquired by MS] and GECAD [ own virus engine ]

Then screenshots of above said tools,boring same known stuff.As a security geek :), this session idea was known to me via newsletters and security bullentins mails. so nothing special.
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Session 2 : "TCP/IP Archi for Security Administrators" by Steve Riley, P mgr, MS, Redmond
This session was quite interesting covered almost everything about network protocols and vulnerabilities.He talked about ARP, SYN flooding, Spoofing, Hijaking, UDP, SNMP, TCP.IP,DOS, middle man attacks etc. But no demo :(

During session tea break,collected my free CD's/stuffs,again rushed towards office. Arey still that ISO meeting is going in conference room...:( but seminar really gave me a worthfull day again.
 HaPPy CoDing !   HaPPy secuRity !!  Mahes~
 
 

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Mahesh~