Astoria

Hi Folks,

New tool has been shipped to expose your data on your applicaitons as Data Services,These data services can be used by Ajax web enabled applications.
This tool provdes the facility to expose your data over HTTP which is an added value for your application to easily consume the edata exposed by Astoria SDK.



Download Sept CTP :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0FA1413C-CB55-4577-960E-0F3491847F58&displaylang=en

Regards,
Moustafa arafa

VSTS Mind Map

Hi Folks,

You can check VSTS Mind Map which contains alot of resources,Guide,Blogs...etc and all related to VSTS.

Check it :

http://www.cshost.members.winisp.net/blog/vstsresources.html

Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Ajax Activity Loading Controls

Hi Folks,

if you want to get nice gif files you want to use in the progressBar control,simply check the below checks :

http://mentalized.net/activity-indicators/
http://www.ajaxload.info
http://www.napyfab.com/ajax-indicators/

Enjoy to use them all....its free.




Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Free Blog Engine

Hi Folks,

I have found new and open source Blog Engine built on .Net with source code.

Download url:

http://www.codeplex.com/blogengine/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4459


Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Groove vs. Sharepoint

Hi All,

Big confusion between 2 MS Products : MS Groove Server and MS Sharepoint Server.

There is a big difference between the 2 products,and since there are similarity on as a collaboration solution but still the projects size which are handled by both products are really different.


Read More about the difference:
http://www.microsoft.com/midsizebusiness/businessvalue/groove.mspx



Regards,
Moustafa arafa

MSDN Gulf newsletter Issue 2

Hi Folks,

MSDN Gulf newsletter issue 2 has been released......subscribe.

http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/msdn/newsletter/Aug2007.htm


Regards,
Moustafa arafa