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Channel 9 MSDN Videos – August 22, 2005 — Channel 9 videos about internships and ASP.NET testing

Channel 9 MSDN Videos – August 23, 2005 — Channel 9 videos about the .NET CLR with lead program manager on the CLR team, Brad Abrams. He also talks about his talk at the PDC. 

Channel 9 MSDN Videos – August 25, 2005 — Channel 9 talks with Jeff Richter about C#, Bill Staples about IIS 7, Arik Cohen about Windows Presentation Foundation (aka Avalon), gets a tour of the .NET CLR team, and discusses a Channel 9 site redesign.

MSDN TV: Reliable Messaging in Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo) — In this episode, Shy Cohen reviews and demonstrates direct and queued reliable messaging in Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named "Indigo").

Group Alerts for Microsoft Office Live Meeting Server 2005 — The group alerts sample application provides a simple user interface for sending instant messages to the online members of an Active Directory group or distribution list and its subgroups. The names of available groups for alerting are stored in a configuration file between application sessions. The user may also type the name of a group to add an existing Active Directory group to the list. The sample application uses Active Directory as its catalog, but application developers can easily modify the application to use any catalog that suits their organization.

ADMHost Sample Application — This sample demonstrates how to use the managed hosting infrastructure in the .NET Framework 2.0. It is split into two portions, the unmanaged host (ADMHost.exe) and the managed host contained in ManagedHost.dll. The unmanaged host binds to the CLR, and loads it into the process. It then relies on services provided by the managed host to actually perform its work.

Windows CE .NET 4.2 Platform Builder Update – KB900092 — Fixes made in this update:
Component: COMM
Description: Winsock connections may get blocked after 256 connect/shutdown cycles.

Windows CE .NET 4.2 Platform Builder Update – KB901021 — Fixes made in this update:
Component: MSHTML
Description: An exception may occur when browsing certain web sites.

Windows CE .NET 4.2 Platform Builder Update – KB905202 — Fixes made in this update:
Component: Software Mixer
Description: When two or more threads use the mixer system resources, one may get blocked by others and time out. This may result in software mixer deadlock.

Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Update – KB904242 — Fixes made in this update:
Component: DirectX
Description: When a video is paused, pressing and holding FF/REW button may cause the display to go black.

Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Update – KB905405 — Fixes made in this update:
Component: DirectX
Description: Windows Media Player may not be able to play ASX files.

Update for Windows Embedded for Point of Service – KB903896 — This update resolves an issue where crash dumps and the hibernation functionality are not working when Windows Embedded for Point of Service is running on some SCSI or SATA drives.

BizTalk Server 2004 Load Generation Tool — This tool is intended for developers and IT professionals to simulate load on a BizTalk Server. Using this tool, you can simulate load to instrument performance and stress against a BizTalk deployment. In addition, this tool may also be extended by developers to simulate load for custom transports. This tool should be used in a test environment only, and should not be used in a production environment. This tool is provided "as-is" and is not supported.

Windows Media Player Code Samples – The two Windows Media Player Mobile code samples included in this package demonstrate how to embed Windows Media Player 10 Mobile in an HTML page and in a C++ application. The samples are named Web App and CEWMPHostML.

The purpose of the Web App sample is to show you what events are being fired when a media item is played back by displaying WMPPlayState enumeration values in a text box. These enumeration values correspond to various states such as buffering, stopping, playing, and so on. For more information about these enumeration values, see the Windows Media Player 10 SDK.

AVICode .NET Mgmt Pack for MOM 2005 — Targeted to systems’ operators responsible for monitoring system health, AVIcode’s .NET management pack operations edition for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 provides a consolidated view of all applications featuring simple health status indicators with MOM 2005 Operator Console.
It also provides quick identification of faulty application components and performance hotspots, as well as manual and automatic routing of alert notifications to the appropriate application support team. Performance hotspots are identified by resource type for monitoring response times. Exception and performance events are consolidated by root cause facilitating quick resolution.

Developer’s Introduction to Web Parts: Sample Code — This is a sample Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET solution containing two custom Web Parts, written in C#. The first Web Part enables users to select a customer and see configurable information about the customer. The second Web Part displays the orders for a single customer. A user can add these Web Parts to a Web Part Page and connect them to each other, so that the second Web Part displays orders for the customer selected in the first Web Part.

Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 Beta for Microsoft .NET — WSE 3.0 simplifies the development and deployment of secure Web services. It enables developers and administrators to apply security policies to Web services running on the .NET Framework 2.0. Using WSE, Web services communication can be signed and encrypted using Kerberos tickets, X.509 certificates and other custom binary and XML-based security tokens. In addition username/password credentials can be used for authentication purposes. An enhanced security model provides a policy-driven foundation for securing Web services. WSE also supports the ability to establish a trust-issuing service for retrieval and validation of security tokens, as well as the ability to establish more efficient long-running secure communication via secure conversations.

Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 Beta for Microsoft .NET Redistributable Runtime MSI — This is the redistributable package for WSE 3.0. For an overview of WSE 3.0 see the Web Services Enhancements page.

IronPython 0.9.1 — IronPython is the codename for an alpha release of the Python programming language for the .NET platform.
It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers.

ILMerge — ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly. Also, if the primary assembly has a strong name, and a .snk file is provided, then the target assembly is re-signed with the specified key so that it also has a strong name.

Money Partner Tools and Documents — This page contains specs, training, and tools for financial instituions or OFX solution providers who want to connect with MSN Money OFX clients.

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