Community Server Quickly: The Perfect Community Server Guide

Anand
has contributed a very clear and straightforward guide to bring Community Server, a powerful solution
for online communities to audience having no prior experience or knowledge about
system administration or ASP.NET. Community
Server is a powerful and an award-winning solution for online communities built
on Microsoft’s .NET Platform and is the most trusted solution for many companies
including Microsoft, Dell, Conde Nast and Match.com.

This book is a perfect
guide for people who want to get started with their own online community website
and manage it without having any prior experience. This book covers most of the
fundamentals about Community Server, brief and detailed information about its
features and a step-by-step guide to installation, administration,
customization, and deployment of Community Server. So if you are looking for
quick start guide to start off with your very own community website then this
book is for you.

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Cool ASP.NET AJAX Goodies

The ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Documentation is available for download and can now be easily downloaded for offline usage and Nikhil has updated his cool UpdateHistory Control for the final version of ASP.NET AJAX. This allows developers to add history entries
to the browser's navigation stack selectively for some post-backs.

The package contains the following controls, which includes the initial release of a couple of new controls.

UpdateHistory

This is a non-visual control that allows you to add history entries
to the browser's navigation stack selectively for some post-backs, and
not for some others. This helps fix the back button to make it work,
and allows you to implement Ajax patterns such as "logical navigation"
and unique URLs.

StyledUpdatePanel

A simple derived UpdatePanel that adds CSS class semantics. A
simple addition, but a useful feature, nevertheless, that didn't make
the feature cut.

AnimatedUpdatePanel

Another derived UpdatePanel that displays new content using a
variety of animations or effects: slides, wipes, cross-fades as well as
a visual highlight. This allows you to implement the "visual
notification" Ajax patterns such as the one second spotlight and one second mutation.

Downloads: Binaries, samples and source code | Video on Channel9

Say Hello to JAJAH

Jajah enabled people to make a VOIP call from any phone to any phone without a download, installation, new phone number, or allowing your computer to be used in P2P network. Recently Jajah announced their services in India under very cheap rates also have extended its Free Global Calling Zone - within and between free countries, a registered Jajah user can call another registered user for free.

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Final Released

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 final release is out and available for download.

Visual Studio shipped the final release of VS 2005 SP1 yesterday. It is available for
immediate download in all 10 languages (English, French, Spanish, German,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and both traditional and simplified
Chinese). You can download and install it here.

Check this Museum of Beta. Actually its not a museum of antiquities its actually site that is listing webbased applications that are on a beta trip.

BumpTop is a real cool virtual 3D desktop. It aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world. check it out.

Watch the video demo


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I just received an invitation to try out the beta version of Windows Live Mail Desktop a email client like Microsoft Outlook Express.

What it gives you

• Speedy access to multiple e-mail accounts in one place (even AOL and Gmail)

• The power of desktop software with the flexibility of Web-based e-mail

• A way to get your newsgroups and RSS feeds as easily as you get e-mail

• The ability to compose, delete, and organize e-mail even when you're offline

• A massive 2GB* of online inbox storage

• Address AutoComplete and other handy features to let you speed through your e-mail like never before

• The power to instantly add an MSN Spaces blog entry about any message

• Keep in touch with your MSN Messenger contacts right from inside the program

• Easy creation and editing of photo e-mails

Try WLM Desktop Beta