Yama Kamyar

February 27, 2008

Yama — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:32:00 GMT

On July 10, 2007 in Denver at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, announced Windows Server^® 2008, Visual Studio^® 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 will launch together in Los Angeles on February 27, 2008.

Kevin Turner Opens WPC 2007

In the opening keynote, Turner announces the release dates of the next versions of SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio. He introduces CRM Live and outlines new partner opportunities.

View the highlights

See the full webcast.

Just_Released::Downloads

Yama — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:50:00 GMT

Please find presentation downloads: http://yamabiz.com/blog/files/

Dynamic Webcast Presentation

Yama — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:44:00 GMT

I am planning on releasing a series on SQL Server 2005 Integration Services video tutorial using Camtasia Studio 4... These how-to series will introduce you to some of the new functionalities introduced in SSIS as well as guide you on how to move your DTS packages from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005... Because I am very busy at work the plan is to release the first video session on Monday, July 30th, 2007. That should give me plenty of time to work on it. Slideshow to the DTS to SSIS presentation will be available for download on Monday, July 2nd, 2007.

For information about creating and running your own community please visit Community Server Video tutorials.

Southern California Code Camp (June 30 && July 1)

Yama — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:05:00 GMT

If you are based in the surroundings of beautiful San Diego, CA the weekend of June 30 and July 1 you can have the opportunity to attend a FREE 2 days conference on .NET and other technologies packed with as many sessions as you would expect from a five grand seminar. SoCal CodeCamp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers as well as network and share ideas with fellow developers.

I will be presenting 3 sessions:

Seesion	Programming ActiveX in C++ 2005
Description	A how-to presentation on how to program an ActiveX control in C++ 2005 using Cisco's VPN Client API. The ActiveX control will connect to a VPN channel. It will be used and integrated using C# 2.0 for both the web and windows application.

Session	DTS to SSIS
Description	In this session we will look at a complex Data Transformation Service (DTS) package then rewrite the service using SQL Server 2005 and its Integrated Service (IS).

Session

Community Server 2007

Description

Quickly create and build a community to include: blogs, forums, photo galleries, and much more, for your organization using Community Server 2007 from Telligent Systems. Why CS 2007? Because you will have great flexibility in customizing your Community by adding, editing, or removing functionalities available or unavailable to you. In this session we will learn how to add functionality and remove some functionality from the CS 2007 server.

This community driven event and programmer's gold mine is the perfect place for you to spend the last weekend of June. It is located in beautiful UCSD campus in La Jolla, CA. Book a hotel by the ocean with some buddies and come spend your weekend of 06.30.2007 and 07.01.2007 with all of us.

There aren't many seats available so I suggest you reserve yours NOW. Registration are open at: http://www.socalcodecamp.com/member_register.aspx

Almost forgot to mention on the event's Saturday night there will be FREE food and music... How could you say no to that??? Gallons of soda with caffein in it!!!

JOOST Internet TV

Yama — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:12:00 GMT

Have you guys heard about Joost yet? It is in its second beta release and is now available by invitation only. I will be getting some invitations nearly.

Sent via BlackBerry

Programming

Yama — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:00:00 GMT

From now on I am going to post mostly programming posts so watch out and put me on your favorites 'cause when I do programming you can bet it is World class coding.

Testing Jeff Espenschied's code highlighter I implemented (was easy but not that easy)

private void csa_PreRenderPost(IContent content, CSPostEventArgs e) { csa_PreProcessPost(content, e); }

Niagara Falls

Yama — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:30:00 GMT

Using Microsoft's http://maps.live.com/ I came up with a tremendous bird eye view of Niagara Falls.

The Horseshoe:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=r5cr5b8d99bg&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=1004241&encType=1

A bigger picture:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=r5d9cm8d9720&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=1996131&encType=1

Hope you enjoy!

Screen Recording and Presentation

Yama — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:29:00 GMT

I wanted to create some tutorials I wanted to share with my community. I googled some keywords and came across Camtasia Studio 4.0 which was exactly what I was looking for.

It is $299.00 for its full version.
Trial: http://www.techsmith.com/download/trials.asp

Take a look at the tutorial.
Tutorial: http://video.techsmith.com/blog/screencasts/tss/dv/30d30dreorg/CS4Training.html

Blog CS 2.1

Yama — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:56:00 GMT

In progress at: http://myblog.yamabiz.com/blogs/yama/default.aspx...

Amongst the many new features added to blogging administration tools I really liked the ability to create rules to block spammers, the ability to block IP address, and the many other features added to the new version of Community Server to make it a lot more manageable to the moderator of a blog to administrator their own content...

I would like to know if there are T-SQL scripts available to upgrade my blog posts... I am thinking about creating a SSIS package in SQL 2005 to migrate data from my old SQL 2000. But then again why try to reinvent the wheel when there must be some tools already out there to accomplish exactly what I am trying to do. So for today on my to do tasks for the day, among the many other things, is to find the wheel.

Community Server

Yama — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:24:00 GMT

Today I am upgrading to the Community Server 2.1 SP2 (CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)) Personal Edition using SQL Server 2005. Did you know WROX has published a book focued around nothing but Telligent's Community Server.

Wow! Just finished installing and playing around with it and the database using SQL 2005. I look awesome! The use of AJAX facinated me. This goes beyond my expectations.. I truly recommend you guys. Telligent you guys are my inspiration.

Google Web Accelerator

Yama — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:36:00 GMT

Has anyone ever used Web Accelerator from Google? As you might have guessed it is a great tool to index and store cache of web pages you commonly go to. The engineering behind this add-in tool allows you to surf the internet faster than what your connection speed will allow. The trick is kind of like indexing your database for faster response. Just imagine a non-clustered and non indexed database schema. It will look like a man trying to run on Moon versus another on Earth performance wise.

The only thing was I had totally forgotten the Accelerator was running on the background of my browsers and when I updated a background image on my blog I wasn't seeing any of the changes taking effect... Man I had tried it all; clearing my browser caches, cookies, and you name it cache, without a slight change on the background.

This naturally had to happen today to me... moi... Although I created a ticket with the support team of my hosting website with this issue we still could not resolve why this was happening. I conceded it was enough time spend on this issue and I went dine at my parents house. There, after a very healthy and delicious dinner, I decided to take a look what it would look like on IE 6.0 SP2 version. You can imagine I had already pointed my fingers to you know who: IE 7.0. To my relief the background was different on their browser. On my way back home the light bulbs turned on. I had left the Google Web Accelerator on and it might have index in its own way my blog background, style sheet, scripts, and whatever magic it has under its sleeves. So like a brave man with a new light of hope when I got back home I went to my favorite Dell laptop and turned off the Web Accelerator then once again cleared the cache from my IE 7.0 browser. And voilà case closed. IE 7.0 sorry man.

.NET 3.5 Preview Has Been Released

Yama — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:36:00 GMT

If you have not even updated your Visual Studio 2003 to the 2005 you may be for bits of a catching up to do. Just about a month ago Microsoft launched a preview to its new .NET 3.5 code named "ORCAS".

If you have fallen behind and still on the .NET 1.1 version I think you are bound to be in for some big surprises when you will have to switch to the newer more robust version of Visual Studio .NET 2005. Not only has there been changes to the IDE but also to many programming features... Although anyone can get a fresh start learning the new trick I suggest you seriously start thinking of beginning playing with the new features added to .NET 2005 IDE. If you or your company are not in plans to buy the new Visual Studio .NET 2005 you can get many of the feature if you were to install their respective, either VB.NET or C#, Express editions.

Visual Studio code name “Orcas” -- learn more.

Matt Winklers blog and Somasegars blog

The readme file is posted here.

IE 7.0 FTP Problem

Yama — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:31:00 GMT

FTP is no longer supported on IE 7.0 browser instead it is supported on your Explorer or My Computer.

Hence anything starting ftp:// (i.e. ftp://mydomain.com) will not work on IE 7.0 but it will work using My Computer or Explorer browsers.

Motion Detection using Adobe Flash MX

Yama — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:07:00 GMT

Motion detection in embedded DVR using MPEG isn't very easy as you have to go through many trials and errors to adjust camera motions. In addtion not every camera have the same hardware to run your code... To make thinks easier Flash is the easiest tool to use as a GUI to display video. In addition a 56K modem can easily capture motion using Flash in contract with using any other video rendering tool. I have created a tool called FlashIPX which can render your video camera, at home or at work, as a tool to use as a video surveillance using motion detection technology using C, C++, ASM as an API to use with either Java or .NET to create your own video surveillance application using Flash for the web or mobile operating systems.

The code is in testing phase and should be available soon.

Special Thanks,

Anand Krishna, Andre Dupont, Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Paul Cognac, and Katia Adbul.

Uninstalling Outlook 2007 Beta 2 And Reinstalling Outollok 2003

Yama — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:41:00 GMT

When you perform the actions to uninstall Outlook 2007 and then trying to reinstall your Outlook 2003 then running Outlook 2003 you will get the following typical error message: "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Mapi32.dll is corrupt or the wrong version. This could have been caused by installing other messaging software. Please reinstall Outlook."

To fix this problem I did the following:

I navigated to the C:\Windows\System32\ folder
I renamed MAPI32.dll to something else like MAPI_Old.dll
I ran C:\Windows\System32\FIXMAPI.exe
Restarted Windows XP Pro SP2.
Problem was resolved.