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Absolutely incredible 3D holographic display technology demonstation from CISCO.

http://www.musion.co.uk/Cisco_TelePresence.html

Future is here!

1. Open the command prompt on the server.
2. From the command prompt, connect to an instance of SQL Server by using the following sqlcmd command:

   sqlcmd -S Server\Instance

   Where Server is the name of the computer and Instance is the name of the instance.

3. When connected, type the following commands:

   USE [master]
   GO
   CREATE DATABASE [database_name] ON
   ( FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\<database name>.mdf' ),
   ( FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\<database name>.ldf' )
    FOR ATTACH ;
   GO

   Where database_name is the name of the database you want to attach, FileName is the path and file name of the database file and the log file, and FOR ATTACH specifies that the database is created by attaching an existing set of operating system files.

4. To verify that the database has been attached, type the following two commands:

   select name from sys.databases
   go

5. The sqlcmd tool displays the names of all databases attached to this instance of SQL Server Express. In the list, you should see the database name you provided in step 3.

(from here)

Notice: Don’t forget to run command prompt with administrative permissions.

Also, if you are interesting Microsoft has moved sample databases for SQL Server from MSDN to CodePlex, so now they available here. There is an MSI installation that by default will install Sample Database files into your SQL Server Data directory.

Here is some additional information about sample databases installation on Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

There is some interesting resource about Windows 7 features I’ve just subscribed on:

Windows 7 News

They collect some interesting facts about future release of Windows which can be interesting both for users and developers.

Ha… There is some new experience fighting Windows Vista Enterprise. The source of problem – Vista Enterprise can’t be activated on-line and doesn’t provide you with option to activate it by phone.

The reason of such behavior is hidden was hidden for me in some aspects, and Vista didn’t want to help me.

Actually, here is special procedure for KMS(Key Management Service) you need to proceed to activate Enterprise edition (as I know the same thing applies for Windows 2008):

1. Install an enterprise volume license key by running the following command in an elevated Command Prompt window, where Key is the enterprise volume license key:

   cscript C:\Windows\System32\Slmgr.vbs -ipk Key

2. Activate the KMS host using the Internet by running this script:

   cscript C:\Windows\System32\Slmgr.vbs -ato

If you have firewall istalled by default, maybe you will need to unlock 1688 port.

More informations and corresponding tasks here.

So. Here is small list of things you can’t do:

1. You can’t build Silverlight 2 applications using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, because they are incompatible. Only two ways – uninstall SP1 or uninstall Silverlight Tools 1 beta (If someone know the solution – stop me). Only idea is to wait for Silverlight 2 Tools Beta 2, they promised to publish it in several weeks.

2. It’s impossible to install Windows Media Player on top of Vista Busines N (N means – NO MEDIA!). Because of some idiot decided to sued Microsoft, they were forced to create this version of Vista very quickly… You can’t install WMP, there’s no media restoration pack, you can’t rate you system(can’t run Aero). You can’t run Mobile Device Center(!) – it requires Media Player, so it’s impossible proceed sync with Windows Mobile devices (you can’t even install old “good” ActiveSync). Maybe all these stuff has some solution, not on my laptop – spent 1 day.

3. You can’t use some of 3G modems in parallel with usual LAN network (Ethernet). The reason of conflicts isn’t clear for me yet, but Vodafone 3G modem don’t work and disables LAN… So gloomy…

Looking for second part…

There is an excelent portal where you can find suggestions on how to call from different countries to others.

http://www.howtocallabroad.com

Their info includes all necessary details including international codes, cities’ codes and service codes to process international calls. You just need to select ‘from’ and ‘to’ countries – it really helps me to call from Australia to home and other places.

I spent whole day fighting system on laptop I’ve obtained to correspond requirements of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. So I want to put some of ideas about this process here.

FYI: This laptop has Vista Business N installed and configured to receive and install all Microsoft Updates automatically and was constantly connected to internet.

First of all you should install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 beta. As I know there are no special relations and requirements to installed soft. In fact I haven’t any problems with this installation.

Then it’s reasonable to install all available updates. In my case some updates inside Vista Service Pack 1 were critical for VS2008 SP1 beta installation.

After this step most insteresting part begins, you should unistall all system components and developer tools which are not compatible with VS2008 SP1 beta and its installation utility cannot help you even with list of conflicts. So the most helpful doc I’ve found is SP1 Beta Readme.

So if your system is configured on standard manner and you have the same conditions you should unistall these components:

• KB949325 (listed under the version of Visual Studio 2008) – Silverlight tools
• Silverlight Tools Beta 1
• SQL Publishing Wizard 1.2 (in some cases it’s not required to uninstall this one, but there’re can be conflicts with VS2008 in future)

There are several links to Entity related videos appers this morning in Microsoft Download Centre.

I’m particulary interested in Entity Data Source information and some other related stuff. So I’m gonna post some rplaying results on these thing later. As the begining here is links list to these starter videos:

1. Entity Framework Intro
2. Using Entity Data Source
3. Entity Client
4. Serialize Graph with Entity Framework

Enjoy it

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Here is link to crazy video recorded by some guy.

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562

You have to see it! I can’t even imagine myself in his place..

108 stairs and above 6 minutes of video.  I was catching my chair at the middle of the video just not to feel sick, and you?

My respect to cameramen!