Zoom.it – Viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery

What? Zoom.it is a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. You give us the link to any image on the web, and we give you a beautiful new way to experience it — along with a nice short URL. How? Zoom.it converts your image to the Deep Zoom format, which lets you smoothly and efficiently explore the whole [...]

HTTP over SSL implementation

While trying to learn about how to send HTTP request over SSL, I came accros few useful links.Hope this will help you too. http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/05/05/send-a-https-post-request-with-c/ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/comments/2186474.aspx http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2008/05/01/c-how-to-accept-an-invalid-ssl-certificate-programmatically/

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Pack is now available

With this release Microsoft have introduced the following enhancements:

Simplified and streamlined customer configuration and deployment Lower cost of operation due to improved health model and reduced false alarms Meets low-privilege constraints needed for financial and medical industries New rules, monitors, and knowledge improvements DMO-less deployment SxS install with the old SQL 2000 management pack for customers with SQL 2K

For more information and [...]

Using StreamInsight to Monitor SQL Profile data for Events in SQL Server

Use the StreamInsight CEP tool to monitor data from SQL Profiler. http://www.sqlis.com/sqlis/post/Streaming-Profiler-Data-Through-StreamInsight.aspx

Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Released

Today, Microsoft released the Microsoft® Visual Studio® Scrum 1.0 to the web, a Team Foundation Server process template to support Scrum software development. This release complements the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement and MSF for Agile Software Development process templates. The process template was built from the ground up specifically for Scrum teams. Scrum is becoming [...]

What is the Windows Azure AppFabric?

This is a great whiteboard video on Windows Azure AppFabric from Channel 9. http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/0/3/4/1/2/5/WhiteboardVideo4of4AccessControlandServiceBus_ch9.wmv

Problem with System.Net.Mail on GoDaddy

Last night I managed to get my new company website uploaded to the GoDaddy.  And generally its cool now . Unfortunately though sending emails using System.Net.Mail doesn’t work, so the site can’t send out emails when people make inquiries.  Obviously this has to be addressed. At that moment I had “smtpout.secureserver.net” with port 80 set on the SMTPClient [...]