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Microsoft Azure presence in China is always a question when there is a need for any customer to deploy azure applications specifically for Chinese Regional customers. Recently I had an interaction with a Microsoft Certified Trainer, who carelessly said Azure only uses Chinese partner based environment is only for serving CDN (Content Delivery Network) needs,… Continue reading
Microsoft today has released Visual Studio 2015 Community Technology Preview 6 (CTP 6), which includes some new features and improvements, such as new UI debugging tools for XAML, new Control Flow Guard security tool, and feature updates to ASP.NET framework. For more information about what’s new in this release, please see the release notes. Visual Studio 2015… Continue reading
Microsoft has released the latest update for Visual Studio 2013 with major improvements including support for developing Universal apps for Windows 8.x, Win Phone, and XBOX. Here are the list of improvements included as part of the release(lending from Visual Studio team blog): Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has many new capabilities as well as… Continue reading
Microsoft has made the Community Technology Preview of next version of SQL Server 2014 available to public. Need more information about SQL Server 2014 CTP1? See the product details page. You can download from TechNet Evaluation Center: DOWNLOAD: SQL Server 2014–CTP1–x64
Microsoft has released SQL Server Data Tools and Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 with integrated support for Visual Studio 2012. When Microsoft released SQL Server 2012, Data Tools and Business intelligence released with bundled support for Visual Studio 2010 IDE, and this release is a good news for Visual studio 2012 developers. Now with… Continue reading
SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available for download. SQL Server 2008 R2 service packs are cumulative and can be used to upgrade all releases of SQL Server 2008 R2 to Service Pack 2. SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 contains Cumulative Update 1 to 5 from SQL Server 2008… Continue reading
Recent days there has been some amazing releases by Microsoft such as long awaited Windows 8 Consumer Preview with lots of changes since Windows 8 Developer Preview. Windows 8™ is latest operating system by Microsoft – is mainly targeting Tablet and touch enabled devices which can hold the windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 consumer… Continue reading
Microsoft is releasing the final version of Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 today. An Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Express version quickly appeared in Microsoft Download Center, which depicts the final version release by 07th – March – 2012). As per Virtual Launch Event site announcement. On March 7th, 2012 this online event will allow you to… Continue reading
I just received the news that SQL Server 2012 (a.k.a Code Name =‘Denali’) has become Release Candidate 0(RC0) and available for download Visit SQL Server 2012 Home Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Express RC0
Microsoft has released the SQL Server 2008 R2 – Service Pack 1 (Version# 10.50.2500.0, Released: 7/11/2011) You can right away download the files from here [Download Link] Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 SP1 – Express Edition Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 SP1 Feature Pack