I think it was on Firday, but anyway, Happy SAAD!

You may find a IE7b Easter Egg here.

Objects called using the .NET Remoting infrastructure can be hosted by ASP.NET, custom executables or Windows services. This How To shows you how to host a remote object in a Windows service and call it from an ASP.NET Web application.

As you probably heard by now, today we released the Beta 1 of Windows Vista, which is the next version of the Windows client operating system, previously known as Windows Longhorn. What you may not know is that we also released Beta 1 of Windows Server Longhorn. We're pretty excited about this release, and I wanted to clarify a few things in case it wasn't obvious in some of the news coverage. Read More . . .

A webcast on MSDN TV on how to write secure codes using Visual Studio .NET 2005. Via Robert Hulbut.

Longhorn is now officially names as Windows Vista.

Daniel Iversen shows us (via) how to run Windows 2000 on an old P1 32MB RAM computer. It was interesting. Actually some were clear that can be done. For example when you never use Event Logger on your desktop, why should it be running then? This is what Microsoft did in Windows Server 2003 about multimedia capabilities and I was honestly too happy with it.
They way you use your computer is more important than what the factory have it pre-installed.

'Aspects of AJAX' a blog focused on AJAX. Via Wallace B. McClure.

Psiloc Mobile Mouse is an application, which transforms your Windows Mobile Smartphone into Bluetooth computer mouse. You don't need any additional software on your computer (as long as you have Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed). Your phone will be recognized as a mouse automatically. More . . .

If you are STILL using @@IDENTITY, you are going on a wrong way. I was recently checking a web site's ASP3 Code and found it using @@IDENTITY instead of SCOPE_IDENTIFY for returning latest Identification inserted in the current table. Find out more here.

Coding JavaScript has been always a head-ache for me, you just make one casing mistake and everything just goes out of hand. Using the JavaScript debugging methods, that might be reduced a bit.

HP iPAQ hw6515 Mobile Messenger with built-in GPS/GPRS/EDGE/GSM capabilities is on sale. AWESOME!

Scott has pointed to a truth about Symantec way to block unnecessary contents on the web, and not only that, but also it adds some JavaScript codes for some other reasons to the pages you are viewing on the fly for e.g. preventing popups.

For those who haven't studied MSF book, you may find out this article useful.

Ever wanted to limit port range of passive mode on your server when using Microsoft FTP Service? Those who usually use any type of firewall on their servers which are serving Microsoft FTP Services, facing issue of connecting to their ftp server using PASV mode and you only can try connecting using ACTIVE mode. Now you may limit the port range and configure it on your router/firewall so that others can get the benefit of connecting through PASV mode to your ftp server. Document via Chris Frazier.

 

Once the web development is completed, including the web design, the website qualifies for on page search engine optimization. This will succeed only if the web hosting is good enough.

 

 

A handy sound recorder for Smartphone 2003. Developed using VB.Net (with OpenNetCF) for Smartphone 2003. It allows you also to set recorded sound as ringtone, sms tone or system sound. Recorded sound can be saved either in Phone's Storage or Storage Card. Best of all it's FREE!

Findout more about it here.

MSMobile is presenting overview and audio recordings of 2 sessions about blogging that took place during Tech Ed 2005 Europe.

You may try Google Maps on your mobile phone. Via Stefano.

Somasegar writing on what Microsoft has done so far for distributed development.

The Netron graph library is a generic diagramming, graph-drawing and graph-layout kit for the Microsoft .Net framework written in C#. It allows you to create innovative and highly interactive applications with a minimum of coding in C#. It is fully open source and customizable via inheritance of the base classes. The shapes and functions you need of the node or links can be compiled in separated libraries and are dynamically loaded via the .Net reflection mechanism at run time. Via Steve Hebert.

Another review by MSMobiles on Wi-Fi & Smartphones. As you may know, since the only slot of Smartphones are nowadays a MiniSDCard, we can't both use Memory & Wi-Fi which the Wi-Fi solely won't work without enough memory.

If you have access to the SQL Server of your .Text blog, simply run this against it so that you get rid of at least 90% of spams: DELETE FROM blog_Content WHERE (Text LIKE '%poker%')

Hanselman pointing to 25 rules of management. Recommended reading!