when technology is a part of the whole!

If you have ever wanted to say what Microsoft should be talking about at the MSDN sessions, you now have an option. We are listening to the community for topics of their interest and would like to schedule MSDN Sessions based on this feedback.. Do let us know what topic you want to hear about and the level of detail you would like us to go into at the MSDN India Site . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

SQL Server 2005 Developer Webcasts will begin running on December 6th. Initially there will be 15 WebCasts introducing all the new features of SQL Server 2005 for Developers. Starting in January, we will be doing at least 1 web cast per week focused on specific developer topics for SQL Server 2005. The link for the webcasts is http://msdn.microsoft.com/SQL/2005Webcasts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Finally got my VS 2005 Beta 1 working.. am going to create a Outlook application using the VSTO 2.0. Had problems installing VS 2005 Beta 1 as my MSI was giving some issues.. Post installation, starting VS 2005 Beta 1 would end in an error - "Application configuration error" sort of thing.. I discovered it was Data Execution Protection (DEP) feature of the XP SP2 that was in confict with the MSI. Well, from then it was an easy chore. Went to the Control Panel -> System -> Advamced -> Performance -> Settings -> Data Execution Protection tab and added MSI as an execption. That did it! A re-install of VS 2005 and my VS 2005 Beta 1 was successfully installed.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Announcing the new MVPs in India: 1.. Hari K. Prasad, Trivandrum 2.. Dhamayanthi N, Chennai 3.. Sanjay Vyas, Mumbai 4.. KS Naveen, Bangalore 5.. Sarang Datye, Pune 6.. Tarun Anand, Delhi Remarkably, the MVP program will now benefit from some very senior people now :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Now send a video email directly from outlook... You can use a Web camera to easily send a video e-mail to your friends and family. It takes just two clicks on the Video E-mail for Outlook 2003 add-in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

We launched the Community Star Portal on schedule yesterday. We sent out an invite to all the registered community stars on the details of how to log on to the website and updating their information. this is the first step. as expected a lot of email addresses were defunct and the mails bounced back on the same. maybe the mailboxes are full for some of the community stars.. if you are a community star and haven't received the email detailing the procedure to login to the portal please write to: commstarATmicrosoft.com requesting access details. for the mails that bounced back we have marked them as "Not Active" status in the contact list that we have created. We also need some administrators who could help manage the site. There is good response to the request for volunteering for administrators. Since we can't have many we will shortlist the candidates and send individual invitations to all. we will be shipping the VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 CDs to registered mem...

there is a pilot program being run for a few weeks at the Download Center of Microsoft.com for a few specific downloads.. for some users the site will provide a download that checks whether the Windows OS running on their PCs are genuine or not. this is not meant to be a spooky affair.. rather one that provides the genuine users more benefits by unlimited download access.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.