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Prerequisites SQL Server Express (2005 or 2008) .NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) Windows Installer SDK Windows PowerShell (Optional) Steps: 1.) Create an empty directory somewhere on your file system called Exported 2.) Navigate to the Tools folder under the install directory for the Windows Installer SDK 3.) Launch MsiDb.exe 4.) In the MsiTable - Select Database for Import/Export dialog, browse to and select the WindowsAzureSDK-x86.msi file. 5.) In the MsiTable - Select Folder containing Text Files dialog, browse to and select the Exported directory you created earlier. 6.) In the MsiTable - Database table import/export window, click the Export radio button. 7.) In the list, select LaunchCondition , and then click OK . 8.) Click the Quit button. 8.) Open " ...\Exported\LaunchCondition.idt " in Notepad 9.) Replace the contents of this file with the following: Condition Descriptio...

There’s an assumption that it’s mostly small and midmarket companies that are interested in cloud computing, since they don’t already have huge IT infrastructures, while large companies want to keep everything inside their own firewalled data centers. But new research from Forrester indicates that conventional wisdom is wrong. About one out of four large companies (1,000+ employees) surveyed by Forrester plan to tap an external provider soon, or have already tapped one, for pay-per-use computing of virtual servers, which Forrester calls infrastructure-as-a-service. By comparison, just 18% of midmarket and 15% of small businesses have plans for IaaS. Those figures come from a survey of more than 2,600 “hardware decision-makers” at companies. Another misconception: Large companies are more interested in building “internal clouds”; in other words, their IT departments offer pay-per-use computing within their own companies. Forrester’s study found that 33% of large companies plan to use ...

I tweeted yesterday that I have found AppEngine a poor fit for my startup. The topic deserves followup, since I am big fan of AppEngine in general. The primary need in a startup is to find a sufficiently large, sufficiently paying audience to enable continued survival. Since by definition the startup is boldly going where no startup has gone before, this implies experimentation. Startups need to mitigate risk by validating a large portfolio of ideas. Spinning the “idea -> experiment -> validation” cycle at hyperspeed reduces risk and maximizes value. JUnit Max logs all of its errors to an AppEngine-hosted server. It also stores a summary of each test run: number of tests run, number passed, time, and (optionally) the user id of the programmer. I use the errors to prioritize the time I spend fixing defects. I hope to use the log of test runs to power novel services that help programmers find meaning in their work. I picked AppEngine because it was free for small-scale projects a...

With the launch of Bing , Microsoft's new search engine, "Decision Engine," or "search decision experience," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer observed that search engines "don't do a very good job of enabling people to use the information they find." Bing attempts to address that situation by treating major search topics differently. On Thursday, for example, Microsoft launched Bing Travel , a subsection of Bing that combines the organizational and e-commerce options of a travel portal with search. The idea is that travel searches require special treatment. Microsoft is challenging Google's universal search initiative, a two-year old effort that gathered previously separate search indexes for different media types into a unified multimedia index. Thanks to universal search, Google users can now find Google News, YouTube video, and Google Image links, among other media types, in their search results. There are signs that Google is aware that u...

How to insert data in DATABASE? In this article I plan to demonstrate how to insert data from a SQL Server . This code should work on both SQL Server , I am using SQL 2005 & Visual Studio 2008, This code should work with both C# windows applications and C# web applications. Background: Part of my current project required me too store information from a database. I decided to use C# as my target language since I am currently reading Apress.Illustrated.C.Sharp.2008.Feb.2008 , which by the way is a must have book. Working: 1) First open Visual Studio 2008 : 2)Creat C# NEW PROJECT 3) Select C# WINDOWS FORM APPLICATION 4) Creat simple form which have 2 textboxes ( textbox1 & textbox2 ) ,2 lable( Name & Age )and 1 button ( INSERT ) 5) go to VIEW then SERVER EXPLORER in SERVER EXPLORER panel ,right click of DATA CONNECTIONS and CREATE NEW SQL SERVER CONNECTION 6) Enter the information to connect the...

The Wall St. Journal is reporting today that Microsoft is expected to show for the first time publically its new search effort, code named Kumo, at “ D: All Things Digital ”. The technology conference, hosted by All Things D bloggers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being held May 26 – 28 in Carlsbad, California, and features a number of big names in tech, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone, and many others. if you use Live search, you are no doubt well used to the daily background changes that the search engine goes through. Today, a little more than the background changed. Without so much as a press release or a blog post, Microsoft unlocked a "Kumo Lite" UI refresh for selected public beta testers. We are calling it "Lite" only because there is much more to come in the upcoming full Live Search refresh, which is codenamed "Kumo". The screen shot above is the new homepage for li...

The next big trend sounds nebulous, but it's not so fuzzy when you view the value proposition from the perspective of IT professionals.. Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition. As a metaphor for the Internet, "the cloud" is a familiar cliché, but when combined with "computing," the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is "in the cloud," including conventional outsourcing. [ Learn how early adopters of cloud computing have used the technology and the lessons they have learned. | See how Amazon, Google, and other cloud platforms stack up in ...