While Microsoft is busy preparing to release its latest Windows Mobile 6.5 in this coming October 6, the Google Android developer team has announced that Android 1.6 Software Development Kit (SDK) is available for download. The Android 1.6 is based on the donut branch from the Android Open Source Project which has been improved with new features and technologies.
SQL Server 2005 Express edition is a free, lightweight and embeddable version of SQL Server 2005 which includes SQL Server Management Studio Express for users to easily manage that databases. Although SQL Server 2005 Express edition supports backup and restore database but it does not supports scheduling backups.
When installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08), the setup installation process may fail or incomplete with the following error message or something similar, with the rest of the computer not skipped, bypassed and not attempted to be installed. Sometimes, the same error happens while installing Visual Studio Orcas or other VS related products too.
In conjunction with the upcoming launch of Windows 7 and as part and parcel of its marketing strategy, Microsoft has launched a “Code7 Contest” to invite software developers to showcase their coding talents in the new Windows 7 OS. Participants are required to shoot a three-minute video introducing themselves and demonstrating their application idea for Windows 7.
When selecting data or performing query on Microosft SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005 database, the following error message or failure may be returned: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server][Msg 4147, Level 15, State 1, Line 4] The query uses non-ANSI outer join operators (“*=” or “=*”). To run this query without modification, please set the compatibility level for current database to 80, using the […]
The world’s software giant, Microsoft has released its beta version of Silverlight 3 Internet media player at MIX 09 developer and designer conference. The new Slverlight 3 is smaller in size than its Silverlight 2 predecessor, at just 4.4 MB. Beside that, Microsoft also released associated tools for developers including the Software Development Kit (SDK) and various authoring programs.
After giving away Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio PDF digital eBook, Microsoft Press is now giving away “Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!” book as part of 25th anniversary of Microsoft Press. “Microsoft® Visual C# 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!” book (ISBN: 9780735625426) is written by Patrice Pelland, and allow readers to learn how to program with Microsoft Visual C# […]
Microsoft has released the CTP version of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack (SP1). Users can use these packages to upgrade any SQL Server 2008 edition. This release has basically fixed the issues reported through the SQL Server community. Microsoft has highlighted that this CTP version is basically made available for general testing purposes only. It is not advisable to deploy the CTP version in the […]
Most of your business contacts are probably stored in your company’s computer using Microsoft Outlook. You might want to copy or move these valuable contacts to your Gmail account so that you can access them when you are away from the office or if you are planning to leave the company. To move your Microsoft Outlook contact list to Gmail or vice versa is not […]
Website X5 Smart Edition is a visual web design tool for non-programmer which structured as a guided intuitive process to create a website. Website X5 Smart allows users to create, customize and publish a well design and professional layout website with plenty of web pages in just 5 steps.
Many applications uses Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 as development platform, and thus requires .NET Framework to be installed beforehand, else the installation will request to download and install .NET Framework from Internet. On offline system without Internet access or online server with slow downloading speed, the requirement to download setup files through web may hit the wall – a no go.
Adobe’s Flash Player has penetrated well with almost 98 percent of them installed in X86 based desktop computers. Good news for those users that would like to see Adobe Flash 10 running on ARM based platforms. Now with the collaboration effort between Adobe and ARM, we should expect to see Adobe’s Flash applications to be compatible with ARM based processors, which had been widely deployed […]
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