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Hello all 70-680 exam candidates,

I have taken my 71-680 beta exam today. I chosed to take the exam in the morning since I believe I feel more productive and fresh.

The exam has 75 questions to be answered within 210 minutes.

But I believe if you have enough knowledge on the general exam content you will complete the 70-680 in a short time.

Actually I had finished the exam after two and a half hour later after the exam 70-680 started. But I have reviewed the questions once more to get an idea about the exam.

I can easily say that stay stick to the preparation exam.
Gain some hands on experience and do not forget them. I had to answer some questions in the 70-681 that I have used and know how to the but I could not remember in detail.
Exam questions are from real work life situations. I believe you are dealing such problems in your daily life. So questions are not very tricky solve them in the easiest way.
Be sure that you know what is new with Windows 7. Get the idea of enhancements in Windows 7 even if you have not used them and gain experience on them.

Find the below documentation on Windows 7 from TechNet, MSDN or Microsoft Downloads and read carefully. If you have chance to implement the suggested and summarized on the documents, increase your experience.

Documents that are must for 70-680 exam preparation:

Step-by-Step: Windows 7 Upgrade and Migration for Beta
Windows 7 Manageability Overview
Windows 7 Deployment : Windows 7 Deployment Changes
Step-by-Step: Basic Windows Deployment for IT Professionals


As for short study the following topics included in the exam 70-680 context : Data Encryption with BitLocker, BitLocker To Go, Deployment Tools like WAIK, ImageX, Diskpart, DISM, Windows Recovery Environment, Startup Repair, WinPE, Windows Image (WIM), WET (was also available in Vista), Windows 7 Recovery Tools, Application Compability, VHD Native Boot, VHD drive map, Auditing improvements, System Restore and restore points, Resource Monitor, Reliability Monitor, AppLocker and AppLocker rules, DirectAccess, VPN, IPv6, Wireless Access, requirements, Installing Windows7, Upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, Windows.old folders, Migration of user profiles, WET, Windows 7 installation from USB, Internet Explorer 8 IE8 enhancements, InPrivate browsing etc.

Wish you luck! I hope I will be successfull. Unfortunately I have to wait for about 8 weeks for the exam result.

I have got the following error when I tried to build an ASP.NET web site application.


Could not load file or assembly 'AjaxControlToolkit' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

I had registered the assembly by using the following code:

<%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="ajaxControl" %>

I have solved the problem after copying the AjaxControlToolkit.dll into the /bin folder of the web site application.

If you are happy with your Windows 7 computer, let's try to get a more better work environment on your desktop with BumpTop 3-D Desktop software for your Windows 7.

BumpTop is a 3-D Desktop software for your desktop.
It aims to resemble a real 3-d desk on your computer.
You can easily organize your files and folder, personalize them. You can get use of gadgets to get more from your 3-D desktop. You can use sticky notes on the walls of your desk :)





I think you can give a try for this lovely fascinating software.
You can download free and try free BumpTop for your Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer systems.

A full version is available for purchase for a cost of $29.

Go and download free at Download BumpTop

Packt Publishing has released the "Learning jQuery 1.3" JQuery book. And developers can download free sample chapter 4 "Effects" from "Learning jQuery 1.3" book at download page .

ASP.NET developers who hate javascript can use JQuery which will be shipped with full Intellisense support in Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0

JQuery is a rich library for web developers who want to do more by less coding on web pages.

Microsoft has released ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) Framework 1.0.
Microsoft has finally released the Model View Controller (MVC) framework after a period of nearly one year since its first public community technology preview (CTP).

Microsoft has published the realese version of ASP.NET MVC yesterday, first of April, and the installation .msi file can be downloaded from the Microsoft Downloads site.

The setup file for the ASP.NET MVC RTM is less than 2 MB.

The ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0 is built on ASP.NET 3.5 you as web developers you can still use the features of ASP.NET Framework 3.5

You can find the required downloads for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 at Download ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Visual Studio 2008 developers can easily get use of the new MVC framework.

Are you watching THE IT CROWD ? I'm.

I liked the funny office comedy of a group of IT staff.

Ask yourself are you like them, am I one of them? Of course not, but there are rememberings of a daily experience of a IT worker and information technology staff.





Actually The IT Crowd is a British sitcom. I found it really really very funny.
Every chapter has gathered the most common known words from the work of IT.
If you have watched this series you will probably approve what I say.
The IT Crowd seems to be an exaggerated life of an IT staff :) I know I'm a software developer and I work with an other 70 IT worker in my office.

This comedy from Graham Linehan is an award-winning sitcom.

The heroes of the sitcom are working in the IT department of a company named Industrias Reynholm in UK.

It is a Made In Britain comedy :)

There are 3 main characters in this office comedy: Moss (Richard Ayoade), Roy (Chris O'Dowd) and Jen (Katherine Parkinson).
Moss and Roy are working in the basement floor of the company and actually both thinks himself as the responsible of the IT.
But Denholm (Chris Morris) the boss in Reynholm Industrias puts Jen as the head of IT since she had lied in her CV about her abilities and knowledge on computers.
Moss perhaps is the most loved character in The IT Crowd uses many technical terms that many people can not understand mostly.

I found a few links that you might want to take a look at on this lovely funny TV comedy.

The IT Crowd Fan Club

And some official description of this comedy series at talkback Thames : The IT Crowd. and at Channel 4.

This is the installation order of my ASP.NET and SQL Server development environment on my laptop and desktop computers.


IIS
MS Visual Studio 2008 (VS2008) Team Suite RTM
Team Explorer (within WCU folder)
J# 2.0 Redistributable Package
MS Visual Studio 2008 SP1
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
Outlook.pst
MS SQL Server 2005 Client Tools, SP1, SP2 (for SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 SSRS reports, BIDS 2005)
FileZilla FTP
Mozilla
Virtual PC 2007 (VPC) with SP1
CoreAVG
WinRAR
IE8
MS WebUI WebControls 1.0.2.226
Report Viewer Distributable Packages

Hello all MS SQL Reporting Services developers,

I'm developing Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports using SSRS Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) both SSRS 2005 and SSRS 2008.
I want to write all text in a table's header columns from bottom-to-up but I could not find a solution which gives me what I want.
Reporting Services rotates text in textbox by 90 degrees where a 270 degree rotate will solve by problem.

There are some solutions by converting the text into image and displaying as an image.
But since I want to serve the report as an EXCEL report, and since the report user might not like an image I'm stucked covering this request.
I have played with Direction and WritingMode properties of textbox in SQL Reporting Services 2008 and played with text direction and writing mode properties in format tab of textbox properties window; LTR and RTL, lr-tb and tb-rl


I have tried to find a solution as a work around by typing the column headers in reverse order like "REDAEH" instead of "HEADER" and using one true type upside-down fonts like Upside Down JJ or Blufunken.
But I'm not sure how this will result actually. I'm working on it.


Here is the current situation, a confusing problem because SSRS is not capable of rotating the text 270 degrees.


Here is the view I want to have. I have marked the bottom-to-up text writing mode with red borders.