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Microsoft announced today that office 2007 will be delayed for the purpose of shipping a better product. Different versions of Office 2007 will shipping at different times in 2007. The 2 business editions are: Office Professional Plus 2007 Office Enterprise 2007 The 6 consumer versions are: Office Home 2007 Office Student 2007 Office Professional 2007 Office Small Business 2007 Office Standard 2007 Office Ultimate 2007 edition. The business editions are now expected to ship by the end of 2006, a few months later than the previously announced October date. Consumer editions are expected to ship in "early 2007", instead of the January 2007. To try Office 2007 Beta2 online, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/testdrive.mspx

As a follow-up to this month's meeting, listed below are a few SharePoint 2003 Web Part resources. Web Part Template for Visual Studio http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CAC3E0D2-BEC1-494C-A74E- 75936B88E3B5&displaylang=en Son of Smart Part http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=6cfaabc8-db4d-41c3-8a88-3f974a7d0abe “The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts” http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972688862/qid=1151515832/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1550737- 3506543?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 “Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit” http://www.bookpool.com/ss?qs=sharepoint+resource+kit&x=0&y=0 This list has been incorporated into the PowerPoint presentation. The presentation is titled SharePoint 2003 Web Parts and is listed under the Previous Presentations section of the SIG web site .

Q: How do you retrieve the Identity value of a row that was last inserted in a SQL Server DB? A: SCOPE_IDENTITY, IDENT_CURRENT, and @@IDENTITY can all be used to return values inserted into IDENTITY columns. However, each one has its own scope limitations. Scope refers to a specific module (i.e. a stored procedure, trigger, function, batch). SCOPE_IDENTITY will return last identity values generated in any table in the current session, but within the current scope. IDENT_CURRENT returns the value generated for a specific table in any session and any scope. It is not limited by scope and session, but it is limited to a specified table. @@IDENTITY will return the last IDENTITY column value inserted across any scope in the current session, but it is not limited to a specific scope. For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_sa-ses_6n8p.asp

Microsoft recently announced a new line of products designed for security at all levels, called ForeFront. The Forefront product line currently consists of the following products: - Forefront Client Security (formerly called Microsoft Client Protection) - Forefront Security for Exchange Server (currently called Microsoft Antigen for Exchange) - Forefront Security for SharePoint (currently called Antigen for SharePoint) - Antigen for Instant Messaging - Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Release Candidate Athough some of these products (i.e. ISA) are not new to the market, they have been incorporated into the new package now known as "ForeFront". For more information visit ForeFront homepage . Also, be sure to see the FAQ section and video demo .

Microsoft recently released SharePoint Software Development Kit v3.0. To download the SDK, go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en

Microsoft Technical Preview Featuring Vista, Office and Exchange Microsoft® is making a special appearance in Cleveland, OH on Wendesday, June 21, 2006, to give a presentation to Greater Cleveland PC User Group members (and guests) about technical details of the upcoming releases of Vista, Exchange and Office. Microsoft experts will be giving in-depth technical presentations and demos and there will be Q&A time. In addition, they will be providing refreshments and raffle prizes. As with all GCPCUG meetings, this is free and open to the public. GCPCUG requests that each attendee be included in an RSVP email to me@RLCoppedge.com to insure that there is enough seating and food. Please include the number of people attending in the RSVP. Event Information Wendesday, June 21, 2006, 5:00 to 9:30 PM Cleveland Renaissance Hotel Ballroom B 24 Public Square Cleveland, OH 44113 (216) 696-5600 Free and open to the public Subject Content Microsoft Vista - This presentation will serve as a deep ...

Here's a little tip on SharePoint that I wanted to share with everyone. When debugging a web part on a SharePooint site and there are problems bringing up the page, try the following. Manually enter the URL of the page in question and add "?contents=1" to the end of the URL. Once you press enter, the page returned is the "Manage Web Part Page". This will list all web parts on that page, including their title, type, display on page, and personalized properties. This will help identify if other web parts on the page are causing problems with opening the page.

Listed below is an example of file access in VB.Net, utilizing many of the I/O functions. First the routine creates a file, then deletes it. This routine is used only for demonstration purposes. Sub FilePurge() Static dtLastPurgeTime As DateTime Dim dtNow As DateTime Dim intCounter As Integer Dim Files() As String Dim strGUID As String, strTXTName As String While True strGUID = System.Guid.NewGuid.ToString strTXTName = "C:\Temp\STB_" & strGUID & ".TXT" 'Create a uniquely named .TXT file Dim swTXT As StreamWriter swTXT = File.AppendText(strTXTName) swTXT.WriteLine(strGUID) swTXT.Close() 'Wait 2 seconds before proceeding System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) dtNow = Now Dim lTimeDiff As Long = DateDiff(DateInterval.Hour, dtLastPurgeTime, dtNow) If lTimeDiff > 24 And Now.Hour = 22 Then 'Check if last purge was more then 24 hours ago and current hour is 10PM 'Purge *.TXT files Files = Directory.GetFiles("C:\Temp", "STB_*.TXT"...

Listed below are upcoming events in the Cleveland area pertaining to .Net development: June 8th: ONSQL SIG Meeting June 10th: GCPCUG General Meeting June 22nd: MSDN Event June 27th: C#/VB.Net SIG If you have any questions about these events, please e-mail me at sam@clevelanddotnet.info .

Microsoft has begun work on the next version of .Net. One of the key features is integrated SQL commands. T-SQL keywords and commands will now be part of intellisense, elimating spelling errors. In addition, table and field names will also be incorporated in intellisense. This project is named LINQ (Language Integrated Query). To read more about LINQ, please visit The LINQ Project . For those that can't wait for the next release of .Net to use this feature, Red Gate Software has introduced SQL Prompt . This product provides SQL Intellisense in Microsoft Query Analyzer, SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio .NET 2003, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager, and UltraEdit32. To read more about this product or to download a free version, please visit the SQL Prompt web site .