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 SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications. If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way t...Nov. 5, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 377 |
 This week I begin a new series of video screencasts for Dell’s IT Expert Voice Web site. The site has all sorts of useful information for corporate IT folks that are interested in migrating and using Windows 7, and my humble part will be to produce a regular series of videos similar to...Nov. 4, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 288 |
 Shared Services Provider. Gone! The concept of the SSP is no more. It has been replaced with a new concept called the Services Architecture. Your SharePoint installation will not have a separate SSP site like you had in the past. You now manage... Nov. 3, 2009 09:45 AM EST Reads: 287 |
 Microsoft has chosen jQuery from among the different javascript libraries and has been giving increasing attention to it in its programming software regardless of this IE 8.0 still does not render all of jQueries selectors.I read on the internet about ot... Nov. 2, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 372 |
 PDC 2009 is an exciting event the Windows Azure community. Concurrent with the conference Microsoft will begin the Windows Azure platform transition from a CTP to business. For your planning purposes, this post maps out the key stages of that transition that you should be aware of.
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 The last day of the SPC had some tech-laden sessions hosted by Andrew Connell. The first was about migrating from 2007 to 2010, and how you can add the nice 2010 development features (like the ribbon and the developer dashboard) back into your 2007 master pages when you migrate them. T...Oct. 30, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 386 |
 VS2010 comes in three flavors with increasing capabilities, Professional, Premium and Ultimate. Ultimate can do everything the others can and much more.With the gathering of stuff in the clouds VS 2010 is built-in with capabilities to master the clouds by supporting Win... Oct. 30, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 296 |
 So after the long and torturous wait, you're now in the SQL Azure CTP and you are ready to get the ball rolling with your fabulous, shiny new cloud-based SQL database server. Now what? Well, the first thing you're going to need to do is create a database. To do that, y... Oct. 29, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 436 |
 Microsoft cannot sleep comfortably. There is assault from all flanks- be it mobile, be it OS, be it the venerable Office, almost anything one can think of. Now SQL Azure has a competitor. Oct. 29, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 426 |
 The result is BSMReview.com, a site which seeks to analyze the best and next practices in business service management from a third-party point of view. The experts that Bill has brought to the site are literally a who's who of the best and most trusted people in the field: Peter Armstr...Oct. 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 430 |
 His latest book, The Idea of Justice, is a serious re-examination of the foundations of justice from a global perspective. He speaks of the two definitions of justice in Sanskrit - niti (institutional justice) and nyaya (realized justice) - and how we are too often misled by the utopia...Oct. 29, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 495 |
 I ran into an interesting bug this past week when trying to install the beta 2 build of Visual Studio 2010. I tried both the web bootstrap install and the full ISO download. I also tried the Ultimate version as well as Professional. Nothing seemed to be working.
It t...Oct. 29, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 288 |
 Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF communication objects you need to pay attention to the disposal of the resources that these objects hold. However, these dispo...Oct. 28, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 549 |
 I've seen the movie Good Will Hunting from 1997, starring Matt Damon in the role as a mathematical gifted janitor, twice. The first time I hadn’t taken a course in graph theory, the second time I had. Regarding the mathematical aspect of the movie, it makes all the difference. The seco...Oct. 28, 2009 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 401 |
 Big news from Microsoft today. In a blog post to the interoperability @ Microsoft blog, Paul Lorimer, Group Manager, Microsoft Office Interoperability ann...Oct. 26, 2009 03:03 PM EDT Reads: 301 |
 You might be thinking, pfft, I'm never going to need to use Binary Serialization...that's old school. And you might be right, but think about this: Azure Storage charges you by how much you're storing and some aspects of Azure also charge you based on the bandwidth consumed. Do you wan...Oct. 25, 2009 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,003 |
 So apparently Kirk Cameron and a buddy of his are continuing their campaign of lies and outright stupidity because things like common sense, science, and cold hard fact threaten their fragile hold on sanity. Ordinarily I might on on a huge rant about this but everything I could say, th...Oct. 21, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 320 |
 The SQL Azure October CTP 2 was released. This CTP represents the complete feature set that will be available in the SQL Azure at PDC.
The October CTP has been deployed to one of Microsoft’s go-live production clusters. This production cluster is significantly larger and more powerf...Oct. 15, 2009 09:04 AM EDT Reads: 390 |
 My previous post about the Sidekick failure seems to have whipped up a bit of a frenzy around whether or not the Sidekick platform is an actual cloud service. On one side you people saying it isn't a cloud because it's not redundant or distributed or api accessible or whatever. On the ...Oct. 15, 2009 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 710 |
 I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium. I had a chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services which was basically this application. At the Architect Forum I had a chance to talk in more depth about the general application pa...Oct. 1, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 562 |
 Amazon is adding a new feature which significantly improves the flexibility of EC2’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshot facility. You now have the ability to share your snapshots with other EC2 customers using a new set of fine-grained access controls. You can keep the snapshot ...Sep. 26, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 863 |
 Internet Explorer, particularly versions 6 and before, are the bane of any web developer's existence. The Internet Explorer versions Microsoft produced during the competion-free era between when Netscape died and Firefox came on the scene are masterpieces of monopolistic neglect. IE 5 ...Sep. 24, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 860 |
 The other day I was running Microsoft's malicious software removal tool and, to my shock and horror, it did not remove all of my ASP.NET applications that make use of ViewState. I'm sure it's just an oversight and Microsoft will be releasing a patch for that soon... if there is one app...Sep. 23, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 494 |
 It was quite easy to connect to SQL Azure using IIS 7 Database Manager in my Windows 7 machine. Given the fact that the products are still in initial stages this is very reassuring.
The messages that comes from SQL Azure to IIS 7 Database Server's interface are at best confusing but...Sep. 23, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 490 |
 Microsoft released a preview of the Windows Azure Service Management API to help you manage your deployments, hosted services and storage accounts. This is a REST-based API which users can code against in their toolset of choice to manage their services. You can find the documentation ...Sep. 21, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 632 |
 With SQL Azure Microsoft's SQL Server enters the AZURE environment providing similar services as its ground based product. The Community Technology Preview is available for download on registering but I am yet to get mine. For details of why and how, access the team blog at http://blog...Sep. 21, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 624 |
 When installed in dual-boot configuration, Windows Vista provides good performance and exceptionally realistic set of features. Such configuration allows you to boot from either of the operating system. When you try to install Windows Vista on a system using any other Windows operartin...Sep. 18, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 760 |
 One of the things that I have been loving about being back at Microsoft is working in the Developer Platform team. I have always been a geek, and have this latent developer hiding inside of me. I love designing interesting applications and services, and love to roll some co...Sep. 14, 2009 10:12 AM EDT Reads: 693 |
 It used to be so easy to slam Microsoft. There are the 800lb gorilla with all the money that have done some shady business deals - but that is very much in the past. Today Microsoft keeps doing things that make it hard not to like them. They are going Open Source and being transparent ...Sep. 9, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 877 |
 Check out Charles Torre talking with George Moore (21 year MS veteran) about the what is behind the billing of Azure. Watch the interview on Channel 9 here.
21 year Microsoft veteran and Software Architect George Moore is involved in defining and implementing an effective strategy for...Sep. 9, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 747 |
 More than a decade ago Chuck Weger coined the term “preflight” to define the verification process of digital files prior to printing. Since then, this process or “check list” has materialized into integrated PDF options, plug-ins, and standalone products.Sep. 8, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 657 |
 Recently a friend of mine showed me Heroku, an "instant Ruby platform". Basically what you can do with Heroku is build your Ruby application and the deployment to the remote Heroku site is not only brainless, painless, and simple, but it can be done entirely from the command line (whic...Sep. 8, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,523 |
 This is from an Apple fanboy blog, so they are particularly filled with glee about this latest boo-boo involving the new home to the Dallas Cowboys football team. First the punter drilled one into the LED board that wasn't as high as it apparently needs to be. Now the ribbon board mean...Sep. 8, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 752 |
 Yakov Werde has just written an article on DevX, which looks at the new version of Sybase's long running and successfull RAD development tool... PowerBuilder. 'A dormant giant gets a new lease on life as a .NET-compatible development environment.' I dont know if I totally agree with hi...Sep. 4, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,186 |
 I have been a big fan of the Dummies book series for the last 8 years. I can still remember the day when I picked up my first dummies book from a local book shop. I recently came to know that Ken Cox has been involved in writing a dummies title for ASP.NET 3.5 and [...]Sep. 1, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 610 |
I see this topic come up quite a bit. You have a set of search results, and the user just wants to see the documents, not the folder that contains the documents. Consider the following example, when I query for accounting documents below. |
 On a recent project I had to call Java REST services from a .NET Client. Several problems came up – ranging from authentication to hidden performance issues. I want to share my lessons learned and encourage you to share your own opinions and experiences on this topic. The Context...Aug. 25, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 876 |
 I confess this is my first video tutorial and it is made possible by an evaluationcopy of Adobe's Captivate. Adobe Captivate is an easy to use programme. The video describes fully, in a matter of 10 mintues the SSIS 2005 IDE. SSIS 2008 is almost similar to SSIS 20... Aug. 24, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 784 |
 For those that don't know what X-Forwarded-For is, then you might as well close your browser because this post likely will mean nothing to you… A Little Background Now, if you are still reading this, then you likely are having issues with determining... Aug. 20, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 655 |
 It is now one week since I upgraded my primary desktop system to Windows 7. I had been an early adopter of Vista and had a number of problems, even an occasional BSOD in the early days. I delayed putting Vista on my school computer because it did not support Novell which is used at Daw...Aug. 17, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,557 |
