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Featured Content ASP.NET Virtual Earth Map Control Now you can provide Web site visitors immersive experiences that show Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps, aerial imagery and bird's-eye views. Just drag this control from Visual Studio toolbox to your Web page, set some properties, and you are ready to go. Pex: New Tool for Automated Exploratory .NET Testing Explore Pex, a tool being developed by Microsoft Research to improve the quality of software testing while requiring minimal effort by the developer. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Solution Accelerators Suite UpdatedGet free tools and technical guidance that help your Windows Server 2008 infrastructure and workloads function more quickly and efficiently. The following products within the suite have released new versions: • Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Series Clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario. Download now. • Microsoft Assesment and Planning 3.1 (MAP) Are your servers ready for Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V? Use the new Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 to find out. Download now. • Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 (MDT) MDT 2008 provides tools and end-to-end guidance that reduce deployment time, standardize desktop and server images, limit service disruptions, reduce post-deployment help desk costs, improve security and ongoing configuration management. Download now. Windows Mobile App Dev Chat August 12, 9:00 A.M. Pacific time Please join us for a live chat and bring on the questions. This chat will cover the tools and technologies used to develop both native and managed applications using the Windows Mobile operating system. .NET Framework KB Articles Winforms: Remove ability for keyboard to trigger a button click  RSS Feeds.NET Framework 2.0 | .NET Framework 1.1 Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005, and Visual Studio .NET KB Articles The Visual Studio Designer does not Respect Assembly Binding Redirection Visual Studio 2008 IDE may crash while building a VC++ Project after modifying Linker properties BUG: MFC Feature Pack wizard generated code with CFormView-derived view shows Debug Assertion  RSS FeedsVisual Studio 2008 | Visual Studio 2005 | Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition | Visual Studio .NET 2003 | Visual Studio .NET 2002 SQL Server and Data Access KB Articles You receive an error message when you try to access Reporting Services after you repair a failed upgrade from SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services to SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Incorrect characters appear in a SQL Server Reporting Services report after you export it to a PDF file FIX: Error message when you run a distributed query in SQL Server 2005: "OLE DB provider 'SQLNCLI' for linked server '<Linked Server>' returned message 'No transaction is active'"  RSS FeedsSQL Server 2005 | SQL Server 2000 | SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services C/C++ KB Articles VC++ 7.1 Internal Compiler Error C1001 compiling ANSI string where System::String expected for variable argument  RSS FeedsVisual C++ 2005 | Visual C++ .NET 2003 | Visual C++ .NET 2002 Team Development, Source Control, and Testing KB Articles FIX: Error message when you have a solution that has an ordered test in Visual Studio 2005 IDE, and then you close and reopen the IDE: "Non-runnable Error" FIX: Error message when you try to use a project template that you create in Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals: "Failed to retrieve msbuild property FileGroupFileNames from the project file"  RSS FeedsVisual Studio 2005 Team Edition | Visual SourceSafe 2005 Visual FoxPro | XBase KB Articles Return code 0x80004005 registering a .DLL COM server created with Microsoft Visual FoxPro FIX: Records from another user session that violate the criteria for a parent table are displayed in the browse window for a child table in a Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2 multiuser environment How to locate a value or closest match in a Visual FoxPro table from VB .NET using the VFP OLE DB Provider  RSS FeedsVisual FoxPro 9.0 | Visual FoxPro 8.0 | Visual FoxPro 7.0 MSDN Subscribers SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Available for Download SQL Server 2008 has been released, and is ready to deliver a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data, such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze. MSDN subscribers can find RTM versions now available for download. Service pack 1 offers Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 users improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance. Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 downloads are now available to MSDN subscribers. Web Resources MSDN Magazine: Expose and Consume Data in a Web Services World The goal of the ADO.NET Data Services Framework is to create a simple REST-based framework for exposing and consuming data-centric services easily. MSDN Magazine: Build a Robust EDI Solution with BizTalk Server We introduce you to the EDI functionality within BizTalk Server 2006 R2, illustrating schema creation, document mapping, EDI delivery and transmission, and exception handling. MSDN Magazine: Create Animations with XAML and Expression Blend In this excerpt from his upcoming book, Laurence Moroney explains the basics of Silverlight animation and the animation tools available in Expression Blend. Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers Watch webcasts and take part in virtual labs to see how to build pages in SharePoint as easily as in ASP.NET, write workflows in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), build rich Internet applications, and brand your SharePoint site to look like your existing Web site. geekSpeak: Join a Discussion Like No Other Tune in throughout August and hear industry experts discuss trends, technologies, and real-world experiences of developers and designers - such as using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), programming for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and designing with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Security for Developers What do you want to know about SDL threat modeling? Adam Shostack is working on a paper about "Experiences Threat Modeling at Microsoft" for an academic workshop on security modeling. He'd like your input. What questions should he try to answer? What would you like to know about? Improve Security with "A Layer of Hurt" Wrapping up "Walking" with the SDL New ASP.NET Security Videos The Four Horsemen of Cleopatra's Barge Black Hat: Got2 Luv the H8ers Exploitability Index - More Information for Customers More Security... Training Get a Free Second Shot on Windows Server 2008 Certification Due to popular demand, the Second Shot offer is back. Take a Windows Server 2008 Microsoft certification exam, and if you don't pass the first time, get a second chance free. Get Free SQL Server 2008 E-Learning For a limited time, you can get Collection 6187: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for free! This Microsoft Official E-Learning collection leverages a rich multimedia experience to introduce you to new and enhanced features in SQL Server 2008, including new data types and data management features. Register now and get a jump start on SQL Server 2008. Download a Free E-Book on SQL Server 2008 Written by industry expert Peter DeBetta, Introducing SQL Server 2008 will lead you through major new features in SQL Server 2008, including security, administration, and performance. Sign up now to get it for free. Microsoft Virtualization Fundamentals: Overview of the Microsoft Virtualization Vision Available on-demand beginning August 12 This session will serve as introduction to each virtualization product: Server Virtualization, Application Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization, and the purpose of each. It will also introduce the benefits of management using System Center. Microsoft Virtualization Fundamentals: Introduction to Server Virtualization (Usage Scenarios) Available on-demand beginning August 12 This Web seminar will cover the different products for server virtualization (Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Virtual Server 2005, and Virtual PC) and the usage scenarios for each. Usage scenarios include server consolidation, disaster recovery, branch office, high availability, development and testing, and more. Windows Server 2008 Fundamentals: What's New In Windows Server 2008 Available on-demand beginning August 12 This session will cover, at a fairly high level, the top new improvements in Windows Server 2008 and the benefits they bring for businesses. Topics include improvements in security, Web, architecture, management, and virtualization, among others. Other sessions will dive deeply into the technological improvements that are introduced here. More Training... Case Studies Qatari Courts Deliver Judicial Decisions in Minutes Not Weeks with Workflow System The Qatari Supreme Judiciary Council's IT team chose the Microsoft .NET Framework over an Oracle/Linux solution to develop a new workflow and document repository, and found it automates the execution of justice and empowers judges to make decisions in minutes. Localized Online Offers Help Retailers Reach Consumers and Drive Sales Using the Microsoft .NET Framework for its online services business instead of UNIX and Oracle, ShopLocal is able to accommodate large seasonal peaks to serve its retail customers. Internet Service Provider Improves Hosting Services and Management with Solution Running both ASP.NET and PHP on Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0 helps streamline XS4ALL's IT management, cuts deployment time by 75 per cent, and strengthens XS4ALL's competitive advantage. More Case Studies... Partner News Full Outlook Functionality on the Web in 90 Days An Outlook-like Web-based application in DHTML/Silverlight dual presentation layers: view the Visual WebGui demo, and get the free download.