Microsoft ASP.NET Futures May 2007 (“Futures”) release

The Microsoft ASP.NET Futures May 2007 (“Futures”) release contains an early developer preview of features providing a wide range of new functionality for both ASP.NET and Silverlight™. The functionality in the Futures release includes early experimental versions of features currently being considered for future versions of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. The Futures releases assume prior knowledge of the core features of ASP.NET including the previous ASP.NET AJAX Futures January CTP.

Features in this release include ASP.NET Silverlight server controls, new functionality for ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, dynamic data controls, enhancements to dynamic languages, and more.

Download here

New look for MSDN !

I am really liking the new look of MSDN. Check it out!

Microsoft Pop Fly Alpha

Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts:

1 Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups.

2 Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.

For more details check out here.

I have signed up and I am waiting for confirmation. I just cant seem to wait to play with it.

Architect Journal : Read it before everyone else

MS Architect journal is one of the prized reading that I always look forward to. Its already into its 12th edition and has many many faithful subscribers (and ofcourse I am one of them). So read it before everyone else here.

Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn) Training

I wanted to blog about it for past few days but wasnt getting any time at all. Yes such is life. Anyways, coming back to the topic. I recently attended a one day traning on Windows Server 2008 (previously code named "Longhorn Server"). It was an informative and useful session. I got to know about number of enhancements that I can not diclose since the presentation content was under NDA. But the but the good thing is that you can download Windows Server 2008 beta 3 from here.

Pakistan Developer Conference 2007

I will be speaking at Pakistan Developer Conference 2007 which is arguably the largest developer conference of Pakistan. This will be 3rd time in as many years that I have been invited as a guest speaker for this event. Its always great to be there and host technical sessions. I will be presenting following sessions:

1- Programming WCF Services
2- Office 2007 Programmability
3- Architecting Composite Applications

If you happen to attend the event then do pass by and say hello. I would love to meet you guys!

Find out the detailed agende here

Naveedullah's Sharepoint and W'SS blog

My long time friend and MOSS guru has started his blog at http://naveedullah.wordpress.com.

Do visit if you are interested in Sharepoint products and technologies!

VS Orcas Beta 1

I was trying to setup my Virtual PC for a sliverlight application demo. But after installing all the runtimes and SDKs and all. I figured out that i cant run it on March CTP release of Orcas .
So i will proceed with downloading Orcas Beta 1.

BizTalk Services SDK : Internet Service Bus!

This certainly is an awesome development. I heard about it for the first time when I was attening MVP Summit in Mar 2007. This will really take the services layer from an enterprise to the internet thus, internet service bus. Wouldnt it be great to develop services around BizTalk services and access them in a rather golbal, internet manner without having to worry about infrastructure it self? This will certainly lets us build business solutions & services without really putting in time and effort on underlying details.
Download the sdk here