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Atlas is shipped!

There will be PDC07…

I love it Doesn’t feel, that it will change anything, but I love it

Let’s download the PSCX!

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is out, trial can be downloaded from here.

Some of the most important new technologies:

• Unified Messaging that delivers voice mail and fax messages to the Exchange inbox
• Greater mobility support – for example, IT administrators can enforce security policies on mobile devices with greater control and granularity and end-users get full fidelity HTML mail
• 64-bit architecture that allows organizations to increase the number of users per server or allow larger mailbox quotas while reducing per-mailbox storage costs
• Anti-spam that ensures mail from your contacts gets through, while keeping the bad stuff out

For more info http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/

CruiseControl.Net, one of the best Continous Integration tool has received a plugin for accessing VSTS, and a short Documentation is provided.

This is a somewhat hacky, but definitely worth reading!

• Calling a Web Service from PowerShell
• Calling a WCF Service from PowerShell

New branches of the main trunk has been released from the software ‘Mii’, named Branch A ‘Adam’ and Branch B ‘Thomas’. Feel free to poke around in the screenshot gallery!

Download from here.

Only in XPS format. But anyway, we have the specs

Updated with new features like connecting to databases without SPS installed or the RecycleBin functionality.

Windows PowersHell 1.0 RTW

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Download
• Installation & Deployment

The excellent utility for tracking asp.net development by Nikhil Kothari has been updated. Now it supports UpdatePanel and JSON requests.

Release notes.

Java is GPLed!

Let’s try this out!

Fixes/handles some common migration problems.

Nov CTP for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 (for Excel and Visio)

• Windows XP SP2 with IE6 and IE7 Readiness
• Windows 2003 R2
• This one may be useful as well: Exchange 2007

An interesting article to connect all these paradigms together.

Download this handy tool.

Not a final version, only a CTP, but with promising results.