"Mendocino" - Microsoft / SAP alliance focusing on the implementation and integration of Microsoft and SAP technologies...

Microsoft / SAP alliance centre which is focusing on the implementation and integration of Microsoft and SAP technologies...
Check this:-
http://www.microsoft-sap.com/technology.aspx

Mendocino press release from SAP:-
http://www.sap.com/company/press/press.epx?pressID=4520

A framework to build rich Web apps on top of ASP.NET 2.0, "Atlas" First Look... Great video

ASP.NET "Atlas" First Look... Great video here...

Nikhil Kothari provides a brief overview of ASP.NET "Atlas", a framework to build rich Web apps on top of ASP.NET 2.0. The demo shows an app that uses the new server controls from the December CTP to incrementally enrich standard ASP.NET pages and an app that shows client-centric app development.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060119AtlasNK/manifest.xml

Need Converting a Data-Oriented Application from VB 6 to VB 2005" - Series Part 1-3

Need Converting a Data-Oriented Application from VB 6 to VB 2005" Check this Series out Part 1 to 3...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/adotonet.asp

Some excellent LINQ bloggers!

Updated VB 9.0 (LINQ + XML) preview out!
http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2006/02/06/11119.aspx

Updates to the XML integration syntax http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2006/02/22/11276.aspx

The Developer Division Lame List
http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2006/02/15/11225.aspx

Just because it comes in your size, doesn't mean you should wear it.
http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2006/02/13/11146.aspx

Check Out the New LINQ Preview from the Visual Basic Team VB 9.0

The January tech preview of Visual Basic support for LINQ is now available for download! This is an additive release to the one that came out in the PDC timeframe. It expands the XML integration in both the language and IDE, provides some editor features for the LINQ syntax, and enables DLinq for Visual Basic.

Future VB9.0:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/Future/default.aspx

Download Visual Basic 9.0 LINQ Technology Preview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/Future/default.aspx

XLING Overview:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/VBasic/Future/XLinq%20Overview.doc

User Interface Controls in Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic 2005

Need to convert VB 6 UI controls to VB 2005. Check this article on msdn by Bill Sempf. Very useful when you think of migrating projects from VB to VB.net 2.0.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/UIConVB6and05.asp

Simplify Development With The Declarative Model Of Windows Workflow Foundation

Simplify Development With The Declarative Model Of Windows Workflow Foundation

This article discusses:

• Windows Workflow Foundation
• What's inside a workflow Compo
• site activities and execution
• Context and state management

https://www.sdmediagroup.com/msdnmag/sub/msdnmagback.htm

Podcasts revolution...

Listen to these *podcasts* on your iPOD, MP3 player, mobile phones...

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=34

Visual Studio Add-In that "Converts C# Code To Visual Basic"

A Visual Studio Add-In That Converts C# Code To Visual Basic
Paste As Visual Basic
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/02/PasteAs/default.aspx

Great... is it? - DJ

Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0...try it (over 90 days of trial version)

If i have 8 hours to cut a tree.... i would rather spend 6 hrs sharpening my axe :)

Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0

Highlights:
•Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0: New version of Microsoft Great Plains empowers your people
•Special offer: Save up to 61% and nurture bigger business on a small budget
•Customer video: Orange County Choppers leaves data-management headaches in the dust

Using Microsoft Dynamics GP
•Microsoft Dynamics training
•Technical information and white papers

About the Product:
•Product overview
•Customer stories
•Demos
•Fact sheets

Is .NET 2.0 Gridview more powerful?

Is Data grid obsolete... There's a New Grid in Town...GridView!

Read this article, http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/08/GridView/ it discusses:

• The ASP.NET 2.0 GridView, FormView, and DetailsView
• Differences between the DataGrid and the GridView
• The programming interfaces of these controls
• How to achieve master/detail views

Happy Programming!

.NET reverse engineering tools

Interested in finding out whats in a DLL, when you just have a .net DLL and NO source code...

Try Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector:

http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

OR
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone28/cat754/19049.htm for .net reverse engineering.
Cheers - D

Google Maps - AJAX style application

Write AJAX-style Applications Using the ASP.NET 2.0 Client Callback Manager

With applications like Google Maps for inspiration, it seems everybody's been talking about what you can do with AJAX. But many don't know that writing AJAX-style applications that can do partial screen refreshes without a trip to the server are easy to write in ASP.NET 2.0 using the built-in Client Callback Manager.

Check this dex article for details...http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/28451