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Microsoft Developer Resources Center
CodePlex - Microsoft's open source project hosting site
Port 25 - the Open Source Lab at Microsoft
Overview of the FAT, HPFS, and NTFS File Systems
Configuring Windows Page Files for Optimization and Recovery
Top 10 Ways to Save Time with Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Servers home page
SQL Server home page
Microsoft
Exchange home page
Microsoft Virtual PC
Microsoft .NET ...
Visual Basic ...
- a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft
Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and .NET Framework 2.0
FREE Book - Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET -
"this complete technical guide covers all upgrade topics. ... Get big-picture architectural advice, a reference
of function and object model changes and hundreds of before-and-after code samples."
Visual Basic Sample Applications
101 Code Samples for Visual Basic .NET 2003
Visual Basic .NET 2002 samples
Recommended Upgrade Paths for Visual Basic .NET
Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET Upgrade samples
Deploying Hybrid Visual Basic 6.0 / VB .NET Applications
Visual Studio developer
tools for the Microsoft Office System
Performance Optimisation in Visual Basic .NET
Ten Code Conversions for VBA, Visual Basic .NET, and C#
Visual Basic
.NET Upgrade Guide
VB at the Movies
The Visual Basic .NET
Power Pack
Microsoft
Visual Studio Express Editions -
Beginner Developer Learning Center
>> Learning Tracks
Coding4Fun ... for people worldwide write software for fun –
not because they are being paid, but because they love to code (part of the Microsoft MSDN site).
File corruption in Outlook Express -
Learn about "the other e-mail threat": mail file corruption ... the causes,
the symptoms, and how to avoid corruption.
PostPath -
Linux alternative for Exchange/Outlook mail ... "The only Exchange Server alternative
to deliver drop-in Microsoft interoperability across the email ecosystem."
>> Flash demos
>> FREE 12 User Server
Problems for non-Outlook e-mail clients decoding a Winmail.dat attachment sent with
an Outlook message ...
FAT File System Technology and Patent License
TIP:
Command-Line Switches for Windows Explorer
- Useful command-line options you can use when you start Windows
Explorer
Microsoft Public Product Support Newsgroups -
discuss issues with others who use Microsoft products, including advice from Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs).
Read interesting posts, search for specific topics, answer a question, or post your own questions to the group.
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Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide for Windows -
this Solution Accelerator from Microsoft shows you how to use Windows SysInternals to investigate suspicious activity,
and helps you determine when to turn over an investigation to law enforcement. The guide gives you best practices
on how to collect, preserve, analyse, and report on key data using techniques that will stand up in a court of law.
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Inside the
Windows Vista Disk Encryption Algorithm - Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions use Bitlocker Drive Encryption,
which encrypts all data on the system volume. At the heart of Bitlocker is the AES-CBC + Elephant diffuser encryption algorithm.
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The Long-Term Impact of User Account Control (in Windows Vista) - What UAC appears to be, what it is, and what it is not.
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Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting (MSDN blog) -
Contributions to this blog are made by the Microsoft Critical Problem Resolution (CPR) Platforms Team. ...
[Webmaster: These are new, fresh articles, from mid-December 2006 onwards.]
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Optimise and Secure Your Core Infrastructure (OSYCI) -
A well-managed and secure IT infrastructure can be a catalyst for company growth, freeing time for IT professionals to develop
strategic technology solutions that help achieve business goals. An optimised IT infrastructure is one that is automated,
dynamic, and a strategic asset. It will make a company more secure, reduce costs, and increase productivity.
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CodePlex - Microsoft's community development Web site.
You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with your fellow developers around the world, join others
who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback.
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What's New With Visual Studio 2005 (Part 1) -
an interview with Microsoft's S. "Soma" Somasegar (November 2005)
>> (Part 2) - Modeling a New Version of VS ...
- "As we started to think about Visual Studio 2005, we had a realization. A developer is a developer is developer, but different kinds
of developers have different requirements. For example, a person who is entering the field of programming, a hobbyist, or would-be developer has a different set of expectations and requirements
from someone who is a professional developer, or from someone who is customizing Office, or from someone who is working in an enterprise environment with a team of developers.
So we decided to build a set of tools that is targeted at each major segment of the developer community."
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How Microsoft Technologies Can Help You
Comply with Government Regulations -
Companies and government agencies are increasingly being required to meet new and expanding compliance regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Key documents, organizational policies, and vital pieces of information must be available for fast retrieval and reporting.
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Do you trust your administrators? -
It’s a serious question, and it deserves serious thought. Can you trust the very people you hire to build,
manage and keep intact the mission-critical networks upon which your business successes -- and even its very survival -- depend?
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Threats and Countermeasures: Security Settings in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP -
This guide is intended primarily for consultants, security specialists, systems architects,
and IT professionals who are responsible for the planning stages of application or infrastructure development
and the deployment of computers that run Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 in enterprise environments, not for home users.
(The guide is a companion to the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide
and the Windows XP Security Guide )
- Longhorn Developer Center Home
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Understanding Longhorn application development
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The Pillars of Longhorn -
the technical pillars that make up the new Longhorn functionality.
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Indigo -
a set of .NET technologies for building and running connected systems. It is a new breed of communications infrastructure
built around the Web services architecture.
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Avalon -
provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences in Longhorn,
blending together application UI, documents, and media content
- Software Development’s second annual Readers' Choice Awards 2004:
- Best Developers' News Source: developerWorks (IBM)
- Most Robust Tool: JBuilder (Borland)
- Best Value: Eclipse (Eclipse.org)
- Best Technical Support: developerWorks (IBM)
- Most Improved Tool: Eclipse (Eclipse.org)
- Most Innovative Tool: Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft)
- Best Open Source Tool: Eclipse (Eclipse.org)
- Most Tried and True: Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft)
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Supporting the End-User Desktop -
Microsoft Office 2003 -
Security for Windows Server 2003 -
Windows Server 2003 -
Windows Storage Server 2003 -
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 -
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
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Protect Your
Applications from Hackers with Threat Modeling -
To protect your applications from hackers, you need to understand the threats to
those applications.
Microsoft's Threat Modeling page can help you understand the threat modeling process and build threat models
that you can use to secure your own applications.
(Threat
modeling is comprised of three high-level steps: understanding the
adversary’s view, characterizing the security of the system, and
determining threats.)
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Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator (Part 1) -
Part 2
- how you can run as an administrator and access Internet data
safely by dropping unnecessary Windows administrative privileges
when using any tool to access the Internet.
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Building a Desktop News Aggregator - about RSS, and
in particular RSS Bandit. Describes a C# application that retrieves and displays news feeds from various Web sites.
The application utilizes XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, the DOM, and XML Serialization in the .NET Framework.
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Navigate the .NET Framework and Your Projects with "My"
- One of the biggest issues that programmers run into is the
sheer breadth of .NET, which means that finding the best class for
a particular task can be quite daunting. ... "My" provides an
intuitive navigation hierarchy that exposes existing .NET
functionality through easily understood root objects, targeting
the practical tasks and concepts that you grapple with on a
regular basis.
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Bill Gates describes
how Weblogs could be used a tool for business to communicate with
customers
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Microsoft
Bloggers
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Ozzie Rules Blogging - Charles "Chuck" Sterling's weblog
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Microsoft Intellectual Property Indemnification - "Intellectual property protection is a valuable benefit
Microsoft offers end users of its server and desktop Microsoft software. If someone alleges that your end use of this
Microsoft software infringes their intellectual property rights, then Microsoft will help protect you from legal costs
and liability associated with the dispute."
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