What’s new in Internet Explorer 9?

Microsoft has recently launched the Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and I have just installed it on it in my machine and I am quite amazed with the features its providing so I thought its worth to right a blog post about it.

The first and foremost thing you will notice about IE9 is a new slick interface. It has very nice user interface with address bar and tab are both on the same line. You can also enable old view like IE via right click->Show tabs on a separate Row. Like following.



You can change tab via like following.



and You can achieve same look like IE8 like following.



Additionally clicking on the new tab it will present you a layout where you can see the most visited sites with the popular list popular stuff.



Another use full feature will search enhancement where you can directly find the things with Bing search engine in your address bar just like below.



You can turn off search suggestions via clicking on Turn off Suggestions. Also you can pin sites in IE9 just like you can pin the other things in windows 7. There are still lots of more features are there you can see all from the following sites.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff974378(v=vs.85).aspx
http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

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Windows Azure Camp at Ahmedabad Overview- A Great Event

Recently Microsoft and Ahmedabad .NET User Group has organized a great event and opportunity to learn Microsoft Windows Azure. Each session was great and I quite enjoyed all the session through out the day.

First two session was from Gaurav Mantri-(Owner of Cerebrata Software - a very well-known company in world of Windows Azure Platform ISVs). Both sessions were great in First Session was about Introduction to Cloud Computing and Windows Azure in this session he has explained basics of cloud computing and also explained features of Windows Azure. He also explained all the scenario when we need to move our application to cloud. In the second session he has explained the Windows Azure compute and Storages available on windows Azure. He explained All the storage like tables,Blob etc. and also explained the advantages and disadvantages of the various available storage options on window azure.

After that we had a heavy lunch and in post lunch sessions Ahmedabad .NET User Group president Mahesh Dhola take deep dives to various tools available to develop Windows Azure application. He explained features of Windows Azure portal as well desktop tools available for the development Tools. In second session he has given real time demo via creating sample application called “Ahmedabad Khau Ghar “ A sample shopping cart developed in ASP.NET MVC2 and uses various features like Session State provider for Windows Azure etc.

At the end of the day we had Tea/Coffee and we had great discussion about the Windows Azure. Following is some of the pictures of Event.











It was a great event and Thanks Microsoft and Ahmedabad .NET User group for organizing such events. It a great to learn new things and Also great way to networking with other great guys.

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Installing SQL Server 2011(Denali) CTP Step by Step overview

Today I have downloaded the SQL Server 2011 CTP and I am very excited about the new features provided by it. I am going to post new features of the SQL Server 2011(Denali) CTP in future post. Today I am going to post about how install SQL Server 2011(Denali) CTP on Windows7 machine.

First you need to download the SQL Server 2001(Denali) CTP setup from the following URL. You need download the setup as per your operating system version 32bit or 64 bit version.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6a04f16f-f6be-4f92-9c92-f7e5677d91f9

After once you download the setup. You need to extract files to a location and from that you have to click setup.exe.  After clicking on setup.exe first screen will appear like following.



Once this screen appear you need to click on installation. Once you click the Installation following screen will appear.



Above screen will give you few options about installing SQL Server. As I want to install Stand Alone installation I have clicked on Stand alone installation. After that it will perform several test like system requirement and other stuff and then if successfully passed all the test then following screen will appear.



Then Click OK to continue to setup. Then following screen will appear.



As I want to install the express edition I have selected the express with advance service. After that terms and conditions screen Like following will appear.



Accept the licence terms and then click Next and Install. It will start installing the it. After that it will checked about rules and will bring following screen.



Click on Next and then you select the checkbox for SQL Server features and then following screen will appear.



Select the features you wan to install then click next then following screen will appear.



As I have to install default instance I have selected default instance and then click next. Then again one validation screen will appear you need to click next on that and then service account screen will appear you need to select the account via clicking on Use the same service account for SQL Server services like following.



Once you are done click next and then SQL Server Authentication mode screen will appear like following.



As I have to select mixed mode which will allow both windows authentication as well normal sql server account. Click on Next there will be several screens which are there for validation once you click next next and then Install it will start installing the SQL Server. Once you are dong with installing SQL Server following screen will appear.



That’s it You have installed SQL Serve 2011 Denali!!. Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more..

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