MSDN FLASH IRELAND - INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES - 18 DECEMBER 2008

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Win Big in the MIX09 10K Smart Coding Challenge What would you create for the Web if you only had 10 Kbytes of code? Can you optimize like your life depended on it? Enter the contest and find out. The grand prize winner will live large at MIX09 with a free pass to the MIX09 event, three nights at The Venetian Hotel, and a US$1,500 Visa gift card. There are lots of other great prizes, so submit your entry soon.
Get the Windows 7 Developers Guide The Windows 7 platform makes it easy for developers to create engaging, user-friendly applications by providing familiar tools and rich development features that allow them to take advantage of the latest PC capabilities. This guide summarizes the key developer advances.
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New SharePoint for Developers Track Is Live on Ramp Up The new features and added programmability support in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provide a wealth of development opportunities. This course will immerse you in many of the developer-centric capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
New IT Compliance Management Guide Save your customers time and money by shifting their governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) efforts from people to technology - using Microsoft technology they may already own. This free guide helps you reduce the complexity of GRC with a single source of compliance guidance.
Download XNA Game Studio 3.0 and Start Creating Xbox LIVE Community Games XNA Game Studio 3.0 appeals to game developers of every level, and now enables commercial and community games to be written for Xbox LIVE.
SPARKs Will Fly for Embedded Hobbyists The Windows Embedded team launched the "SPARKs Will Fly" contest on November 27 at ESC Boston. There is over $50,000 in total prize money with first prize bringing in US$15,000 and a slot in the ESC Silicon Valley 2009 keynote. First round submissions are due on January 7, 2009, so get involved today.
Introducing Front Runner for Innovate On SQL Server 2008 Whether you are looking to build on, upgrade, or migrate your packaged application to Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you should consider joining the Front Runner for Innovate On program. By joining the initiative, you will receive technical and marketing support to help you be one of the first to go to market with an application built on SQL Server 2008.
.NET KB Articles
FIX: The specific IME mode that you set for an Edit field may disappear when you return to the Edit field from a .NET Framework 2.0-based Windows Form
FIX: When a .NET Framework 2.0-based application sends e-mail messages by using the System.Net.Mail namespace, the FQDN is not sent when you send a HELO or EHLO command
RSS RSS Feeds.NET Framework 2.0 | .NET Framework 1.1 C# KB Articles
WSE 3.0 Authorization Authentication Error
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FIX: Think times for redirect requests are ignored in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 even if the Think profile is turned on
FIX: Error message when you build a project in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 after an .lib file or an .obj file that was built by using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 is added to the project: "Fatal error LNK1103: debugging information corrupt"
FIX: Error message when you run an application that is configured to be built for the x64 platform by using the MSVCR90.dll file that calls the strncpy function: "An unhandled win32 exception occurred in 'application_name'"
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MDX: Calculated member without parent is treated as level 1 in DESCENDANTS function
FIX: Error message when you install Cumulative Update 10 or Cumulative Update 9 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on a drive that uses the FAT32 file system: "Unexpected Error Occurred"
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Web Resources
Windows FireStarter Live Meeting Event December 12, 8:30 A.M. Pacific Time This is full-day online event for developers and IT pros has a stellar speaker lineup and is guaranteed to be informative and entertaining.
Video: How to Create a Simple WPF Application This video demonstrates the new features of Visual Studio 2008 for creating WPF applications and discusses some of the differences between Windows Forms applications and WPF applications.
Video: How to Use XAML in WPF This video shows how to use XAML to create WPF applications, and explores features of the XAML editor. We will also look at how to nest controls to take advantage of WPF.
Video: How to Lay Out a WPF Application In this demonstration we will explore the major layout panels that come with WPF, contrasting them with each other and describing when to use each.
Pluralsight On-Demand Pluralsight On-Demand is our new Web-based training service providing Microsoft .NET training and content in a convenient online format.
Virtual Lab: Introduction to ADO.NET Data Services After completing this lab you will be better able to enable code analysis including turning on code analysis from within the IDE, setting warnings to be treated as errors, and using source code annotation to help with analysis.
Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 - Developing a WPF Application This lab provides an introduction to the development of a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client with Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2008 has a rich set of features to support the language integrated query framework for .NET ("LINQ"), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and design of WPF applications.
Virtual Lab: Building Quality Code with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition (Part 1: Managed Code) After completing this lab you will be better able to enable code analysis for managed code and suppress warnings for classes.
Application Shutdown Changes in Outlook 2007 SP2 Learn how Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2 has changed the way that the Outlook process shuts down. Customers developing Outlook solutions that run outside of the Outlook process should understand how these changes impact their solutions.
Developing Interfaces in Outlook 2007 Outlook 2007 presents developers with a great opportunity to create useful applications. Learn how Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0 simplifies Outlook user interface customization.
Security for Developers
patterns & practices Security Engineering Cheat Sheet We posted our patterns & practices Security Engineering Cheat Sheet to our Application Architecture Knowledge Base on CodePlex. It's a bird's-eye view of applying our security techniques to the life cycle. The techniques and approach shipped with VSTS/MSF Agile starting in 2005.
Secure Coding Secrets?
SDL Threat Modeling Tool Now Available
The Microsoft SDL Threat Modeling Tool v3
Improvements in Office Security
SIRV5 Vulnerability Trends Webcast - 2 of 2 - Microsoft Trends
SafeInt Compiles on gcc!
Good Things Come in Blue Packages
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How to Convince Your Manager to Send You to Training Microsoft Learning has recently conducted research to show the value of IT training. Use our research results as a powerful weapon when negotiating training opportunities with your manager. Our research shows that training leads to improved team productivity, reduced downtime, and increased employee satisfaction and loyalty. Find out more about the research data and Microsoft Certified Partners for Learning Solutions.
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Free E-book Offer: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2 Get free e-book chapters about Silverlight 2, LINQ, and ASP.NET 3.5. Preview a chapter and sign up for the free download offer to get additional content.
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Case Studies
ICT Provider Gains Clear Business Insights From Flexible Development Technology Singapore Computer Systems' iTrack real-time process tracking tool was developed in-house using Visual Studio and was built on the .NET Framework, due to its ease of use for development and deployment.
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive to Store Petabytes with SQL Services Infrastructure Exchange Hosted Archive, currently hosted on a vast server farm using SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, will soon move to a cloud-based solution using Microsoft SQL Data Services Infrastructure, part of Microsoft SQL Services.
Supply Chain Optimization Solution Sets New Benchmarks on SQL Server 2008 Manhattan Associates' ILS 2008 integrated logistics solution running on SQL Server 2008 will provide the performance and scalability needed to stay ahead of the requirements of even its largest global customers.
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Free Trial: Aggiorno Smart Search & Replace Aggiorno now includes a smart find/replace feature that let you run searches and do global replacements on HTML code patterns.
RADvolution Designer Database Edition Free Trial Evaluate a professional database RAD tool fully integrated in Visual Studio. It includes a transparent database object framework and fast GUI layout designer.
Build the Amazing Web with ComponentOne Studio Enterprise - Free Trial Download a 30-day free trial for access to more than 30 Silverlight controls, more than 35 ASP.NET AJAX-ready controls, and more.
Free Trial SDK: Redact Sensitive Information using OCR and Pattern Matching Find text patterns you define after converting images into searchable documents. Download Pegasus Imaging's trial SDK, sample code, and white paper.
More than 60 Free Controls by DevExpress DevExpress is offering access to more than 60 presentation controls free of charge, without any royalties or distribution costs.
Enter to Win the Visual WebGui US$10,000 Security Challenge This is the last call for entering the WebGui Challenge. Visual WebGui brings a new level of security to Web applications. Hundreds have tried so far, and it still remains unhackable.