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Channel 9 MSDN Videos – September 19th, 2005 — Channel 9 talks with a bunch of teams. Hotmail, MSN, Watson, Aux Displays, VB, Crypto

Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP1 (Beta) — Download Service Pack 1 public beta for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0. There is no expiration date for the SP1 beta of Visual FoxPro 9.0 beta, and release of the final version of SP1 is scheduled for sometime around the end of 2005. Because this is a pre-release build of SP1 for Visual FoxPro (VFP) 9.0, the quality of it will not be of the same caliber as that of the final release.

Live Meeting 2005 Web Parts — The Live Meeting 2005 Web Parts integrate Live Meeting with Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server to aggregate information together within a single portal so that teams can interact more effectively.

By integrating with Live Meeting Portal, users can seamlessly view their upcoming Live Meetings or recently made recordings without having to log-in or remember any passwords. Not only do the web parts provide a view into Live Meeting from SharePoint, but they also allow a user to conveniently publish meetings and recording into a shared event calendar, so that team members can interact more effectively by having everything in one place.

Live Meeting 2005 Document: Live Meeting Web Parts Administrator’s Guide — The Live Meeting Web Parts Administrator's Guide provides information to help administrators install, configure, and troubleshoot the Live Meeting Web Parts.

The Live Meeting Web Parts make it possible for users of Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server to seamlessly view their upcoming Live Meetings or recent recordings without having to log in or remember any passwords.

In addition to providing a view into Live Meeting from SharePoint, the Web Parts also allow a user to conveniently publish meetings and recordings into a shared event calendar, so that team members can interact more effectively by being able to access everything from a single portal.

Media Transfer Protocol Enhanced Specification — This specification is intended to define the transport-independent portion of MTP in a way that is agnostic to both device type and OS. Additional specification on how this protocol is defined over a particular transport is required to fully implement this protocol, and will be provided either in an appendix or in a separate document. Certain operating systems or device classes may require a particular subset of MTP to enable their minimal scenarios; it is strongly suggested that implementers investigate the intended usage scenarios to determine if any such requirements exist.

Office “12” XML Schema Reference – PDC 2005 Preview — This download contains DRAFT documentation for XML schemas used in Microsoft Office "12" including Microsoft Office "12" Word, Microsoft Office "12" Excel® and Microsoft Office "12" PowerPoint® schemas.

Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit — The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) for Windows XP, including Service Pack 2, and Windows Server 2003 contains the tools and documentation you need to evaluate and mitigate application compatibility issues before deploying on these platforms. Tools include the latest versions of the Microsoft Application Analyzer that simplifies application inventory and compatibility reporting, the Internet Explorer Compatibility Evaluator that assists testers in locating compatibility issues with Internet Explorer on Windows XP Service Pack 2, and the Compatibility Administrator that provides access to the necessary compatibility fixes to support legacy applications in Windows.

IronPython 0.9.2 — 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.

Windows CE .NET 4.2 Platform Builder Update (KB908073) — Fixes made in this update:
Component: Core GWES
Description: Multiple calls to SendMessageTimeout may cause an exception.

Systems management Server 2003 SP1 Advanced Client for Windows XP Embedded — With the SMS 2003 SP1 Advanced Client for Windows XP Embedded, you can use SMS 2003 to manage hardware devices that are running the Windows XP Embedded operating system. These devices include, but are not restricted to, point of sale (POS) terminals, automated teller machines (ATMs) and Windows-based thin clients.

Microsoft Character Code Conversion Routines for HKSCS-2004 — The Microsoft Character Code Conversion Routines for HKSCS-2004 contains two conversion/trans-coding functions. Use the functions to write applications to transform, trans-code, and migrate HKSCS character data encoded with old encodings to character data with new Unicode 4.1 encodings.

ISV Chalk Talk — IIS 7.0 with Chris Adams — A technical discussion at PDC 2005 on what’s new in the upcoming IIS 7.0

ISV Chalk Talk — Team System Training — A discussion with a Microsoft partner on Visual Studio Team System Training options

ISV Chalk Talk — Shanku discusses Microsoft Atlas — Shanku discusses the new Microsoft Atlas tools and technologies

ISV Chalk Talk — Partnering with Microsoft with Rob Bernard — A discussion with the GM of the Microsoft Global ISV partnering group

Media Transfer Protocol Porting Kit — MTP was first shipped as part of the Windows Media Device Manager 10 SDK. This porting kit includes the complete MTP specification, updated design documentation, updated sample source code, software to implement a PC-based MTP simulator, and MTP test tools.

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.

ASP.NET Technical Overview — This paper will provide a technical overview of ASP.NET, including a discussion in greater detail of how ASP.NET delivers value to developers, administrators, and users today: Along the way the paper will also describe:
• how ASP.NET fits into existing, heterogeneous enterprise environments
• the innovative control-based ASP.NET model that powers the productivity boost
• how ASP.NET makes web services easy
• and finally, how the next version of ASP.NET will advance the state of the art even further

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