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Windows Presentation Fondation (or Avalon) Windows Communication Foundation (or Indigo) Infocard (Identity Management) Managed API for Windows Vista (Win FX) Unmanaged API for Windows Vista (Win 32) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I discovered this gem at Codeproject newsletter: Visual MainWin® for J2EE™ is an innovative product from Mainsoft (and not Microsoft!) that allows you to use the productivity of the Visual Studio .NET IDE to tap into the power of the J2EE platform. Now you can even write your applications in C# and ASP.NET and deploy them to J2EE servers running on Linux! You also have an article that describes creating first ASP.NET application on Linux at: http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=46 This consumes a stock quote Web service, and presents it using a Web Form that will run on Tomcat under Linux. This application demonstrates some of the technologies that are offered by the .NET Framework, and you will see these can be used to build Linux applications: Web service consumption via a proxy class XmlDocument management Data binding ADO.NET DataSets ASP.NET grid control There is much more that you can do with Visual MainWin building applications leveraging the .NET on Linux. You can downloa...

Google Earth locates my hotel for MVP Global Summit: Searching on Google Earth directly gave me the hotel. Virtual Earth locates my hotel: I had to manually locate the address and then mark the hotel - Hyatt Regency Bellevue . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Want to experience the BETA for BTS 2006? Get it here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=46922 . Some documentation for the same is available at: http://www.msnusers.com/biztalkserverstuff/Documents/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I have been recently looking at the various cool mapping applications enriched with satellite imagery that various companies are coming out with. What impressed me the uncanny ability of these applications to show you your location with help of very rich images. I have seen 2: Google Earth Virtual Earth (it is now publicly avaiable) There is post on Channel 9 by the MSN Virtual Earth Team at: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=91714#91714 While Google earth covers parts of India very well, Virtual Earth can only currently do USA. using Google earth i can almost locate the roof of my house whereas virtual earth limits it to a dot called "Gurgaon" :(.. currently, virtual earth is totally useless for me unless i am travelling to US. The one big difference amongst the 2 applications is that GoogleEarth uses Rich client that has to be downloaded to your machine while Virtual Earth uses Internet Browsers only. Use of Internet Browser has an advantage that i can create...

There has been additional focus on Architects in the past few days from Microsoft. From PAG group to Architect BCC (remember SAF??) there is a lot that is being done to connect architects with current thoughts in architecture field. I think the belief is, if you can design good, you can develop good. Here's the Architect Journal that no architect (budding or seasoned) can afford to miss: http://www.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pid=journal.5&abver=E9A00024-3DC1-4B6A-BC20-22716E4D2FEA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Here is me fishing tortoise out of a pool of water at night market in taipei.. they have little clips taped to their backs and you hook the tortoise using the clip and put it in a little bowl. When you fish 17 you win a turtle :) the catch is that the line you are using to hook the turtles is very delicate and unwinds after 2-3 successful "catches". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Sometimes a creative pursuit is all it takes to free your mind. Here me making pottery. WoW! it was childhood rediscovered.. playing in the mud and stuff. you can see my creation after labouring for 30 mins and expert guidance of the pottery teacher. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

On the boat - Mr. President with Eddie Liu, CPM China and Jae Ho, MVP Lead, Korea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

The tallest building in the WORLD is Taipei 101 and you can see me there dressed in Indian apparel (kurta). Cool? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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Don't know if it is my lack of knowledge on Windows Media Center or there is less information available out there for all Media Center wannabeeeeeeeessssssssss... Here is a blog on the Windows Media Center that might be of interest: http://blog.retrosight.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

After 3 days of back breaking merry making and introductions to my really really large extended family i am back from the most treasured of all Indian traditions - The Indian Wedding. The wedding was at Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh. so what did i experience while at the wedding: Met many new relatives approx. 30 nos (i never knew i had such a big family!) Lots of food to eat Lots of dancing to do Got to see a new place - Raipur (never knew Raipur is capital of Chattisgarh) Got educated on marriage rituals of our region You can see the photos of the wedding at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/buddychints/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.