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Both VS 2010 RC and Office 2010 RC are now available. If you have access to MSDN Subscriber download site, you can get VS 2010 RC from it. For general public these bits will be available today (Feb 10). Like Beta 2 bits, these bits also come with "go live" license. If you had earlier bits, you will need to uninstall those before installing RC. I was trying to figure out if RC to RTM will be an upgrade path, but haven't found specific information on this as yet. If you know, do write back.

However Office 2010 RC isn't available via MSDN download as yet, but is available on connect site for specific users. If haven't got a specific invite to access Office 2010 RC, then both on connect site or msdn download site you will still find Office 2010 Beta bits.

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This topic has got nothing to do with Win 7 and Touch that I have been discussing in some of my earlier blogs, but is more about typing style. Check details here. I came across this interesting blog today, that talks about various typing styles and how the fingers move across the keyboard. Personally I have been using the touch typing style for many years now. Having the ability to type at a speed matching your thoughts can make a person highly productive and efficient.

If you ask me, I feel that everyone working with computers should learn typing.

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In my earlier blogs (here and here), I have talked about Win 7 and the new touch experience it brings.

When talking about touch, there are essentially two aspects - touch and gestures and during a recent internal discussion, I felt that these aren't that well understood by people. What's really the difference between the two and what it means to be supporting either of these?

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Continue reading "Presentation - which tool to use?" »

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In Part 1, I talked about general presentation skills and in Part 2, I talked about specifically why presentations should be uploaded when handling live meeting sessions.

In this part, I will talk a bit more on virtual sessions like live meeting or any other tool or just audio sessions.

Continue reading "Part 3: Handling Virtual Sessions" »

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In the first part, I talked about art of presentation. Moving on in this part I want to focus a bit on another important aspect for presentation.

Doing sessions over live meeting is becoming more and more common these days, but a very basic need of uploading the presentation to live meeting server and then running the presentation from it isn't followed by most speakers and thus impacting the user experience of the session.

Continue reading "Part 2: Why uploading PPTs is a good idea for live meetings?" »

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In part 1 of the blogs on presentation skills, I will focus a bit on art of presentation, essentially factors that I believe play a significant role in making or breaking it.

When I think back a few years, I can’t fail to remember the time when I would be dead scared going in front of audience, words would fail me and I would go weak in knees. Knowing the job requirements where I would have to do many presentations internal facing (trainings, knowledge sharing etc) and external (client facing), I consciously decided to improve on the presentation skills and that I personally believe is the first step in doing good presentations.

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The other day over a cup of tea with a few colleagues we were discussing presentation skills. I got good comments about fluency in presentations, time management and overall how I was able to do a good job at it.

I have decided to take a deviation from the usual technical blogs that I have been writing these past years to write on presentation skills. There are many sites already out there that provide good material on this topic and I am not trying to be a presentation skills teacher here. Over the next few blogs, I will share things that I have found working for me.

Continue reading "Presentation Skills" »

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Continue reading "Surface, iPhones, Wii …. and Birth of the Cool" »

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These days IT companies all over the world, Microsoft included, are putting in a lot of efforts to ensure that their products conform to necessary Accessibility standards. This blog article aims to touch upon the context and the business case for IT companies to be educated about Accessibility.

Continue reading "Web Accessibility: Overview of Laws and Guidelines" »

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Starting this week, I will be addressing the area of Web Accessibility - organized in four separate blog entries.  This week we will look at the big picture, the meaning of Web Accessibility and its relevance for promoting Equal Opportunity.  

In the weeks to come, we will look at follow-up topics like the legal framework that dictates the implementation of Web Accessibility (Overview), the interdependent systems  and components of Web Accessibility and harmful myths about Web Accessibility.

Continue reading "Understanding Web Accessibility" »

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In this part we will try to identify the differences these two models present that brings into fore the impedance-mismatch. I have created a data model and an object model and to keep the things simple for now, all of the objects map one to one with the data entities (tables). In addition, I will be using terms Table, Row, Column etc. rather than relation, tuple or attribute as these are easy to understand. Looking carefully at the two diagrams I am sure you can identify some of the most basic differences in the approaches the two methodologies take while defining entities.

Continue reading "Object-Relational Mapping(Part-II)" »

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Continue reading "Microsoft and Dependency Injection" »

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There has always been a debate on how to represent data in an application and how it should be persisted in a backend RDBMS. Why can't there be a uniform methodology for both? It has been an eternal debate but we have to live with the fact that data is represented using object-oriented methodology within an application where as it is stored in the RDBMS in accordance with the relational theory. The inherent differences between these two approaches can be attributed to the fact that the underlying methodologies, i.e. Object-Oriented and Relational theories are based on sofware-engineering and mathematical principles respectively. And the difference in the way data is represented in relational and object-oriented world is termed as object-relational impedance mismatch.

Continue reading "Object-Relational Mapping(Part-I)" »

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Continue reading "Hello People!!!" »

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A warm welcome to Infosys blogs on Microsoft technologies.

I am Sriram Balaji, a Senior Technical Specialist working at Microsoft Technology Center at Infosys. I have been in the IT industry for around 9 years now. I have worked on VB, ASP, ASP.NET 1.x/2.0, .NET Framework 1.x/2.0, SQL Server. My current areas of focus are Software Factories, software frameworks and .NET 3.0.

Do watch  out this space for reviews about upcoming MS products and do feel free to share your views on upcoming technologies from MS.

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Database Migration Solutions  team of SI consists of folks with rich experience in database industry working geographically across  various locations providing end-to-end Migration, Upgrade and Consolidation solutions for various databases . This is done with reduced downtime, well-managed change of environment using industry best practices, knowledge base, Predictability and Global Delivery Model to our Clients.

We have been working on heterogeneous/homogeneous database migrations across different platforms and have certified professionals having specialized skillset on SQL Server migrations .

Some of our key-value differentiators in providing solutions are:

In-house tools and methodologies developed for database migration
Database Migration Centre Of Excellence
Certified Database Administrators with migration expertise
Support from Alliance partners like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM etc

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What do you get when you make an Obsessive Compulsive Blogger bloke sit up and blog over his second major passion? – You’ll find him tooting his way all around here!

Here’s welcoming you into the esoteric world of the genuine geek. Well, I’m a Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft Technology Center here at Infosys. And when I’m not dabbling with .NET 3.0 (the erstwhile WinFx) or playing around with Software Factories or coding queer algorithms or developing mystical  frameworks that relieve you of your otherwise mundane programming, you’ll find me blogging as though there was no tomorrow.

In my spaces you'll read all about what's hot and what's not in the .NET world, analysis of technical tit-bits, reviews of new Microsot products and technologies and much more... Keep checking out these spaces for an exciting blogpourri of Microsoft Technologies.

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Today morning, when I posted the VSTS introduction blog... Forgot to introduce my self. Ooops.. Let me introduce ...

I am Prashanth Govindaiah, a Technical Architect working in Microsoft Technology Center in Infosys. I have got around 8 years of experience in IT industry, most of it in Microsoft based technologies though have some working knowledge of Java . For the past 4 years I have been working .NET technology. Currently, i am focusing on VSTS.

Keep a watch on this Blog of some cool stuff on VSTS and other Microsoft technologies and do let us know your views on these technologies.

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Welcome to Infosys blogs on MS technologies.

I am Ganesan Krishnamurthy, working in Microsoft Technology Center in Infosys. I have got around 12 years of experience in IT industry and have been working in .NET technology since its beta stage. Currently, i am focussing on .NET Framework 3.0 technologies. I will blog about quite a lot of interesting things that do happen in .NET Framework, Vista and Longhorn world.

Stay tuned to these blogs and let me know about your views on these technologies.

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As part of our blogs on Microsoft products and technologies, as mentioned by Balaji, I will be focusing on BizTalk Server 2006.  

My name is Atul Gupta and I am Senior Technical Architect working with the Microsoft group in Infosys. I have been working on Microsoft based technologies for more than 11 years now. Have had exposure to C, C++, MFC, COM, DCOM, .Net 1.1, ASP.NET 1.1, .Net 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, Winforms, SmartClient etc. On the server side, I have worked with BizTalk, Commerce Server and SQL server. I am also Microsoft MVP.

Looking forward to having interesting discussions on this blog!

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Welcome, once again!!!

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