At last Microsoft has launched the IE 8 during the MIX09 Conference, with great hopes that it’ll retrieve the position of IE among currently popular browsers like Firefox which has stolen a part of the market share during the past few years against previous versions of IE..
During the launch and as a part of the marketing there was a video from Microsoft about the history of the web which shows some of the new features in IE 8, during the conference also there were some sessions about IE8 like the lab around IE8 by Giorgio Sardo, some of the new features and improvements in IE8 as per Microsoft website are :
Accelerators
Accelerators let you map directions, translate words, email your friends, and more in just a few mouse clicks. Learn more.
Common accelerator showing driving directions
InPrivate Browsing
Browse the web without saving your history with Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out or use a shared computer without leaving a trace. Learn More.
The InPrivate button on the Address Bar
Web Slices
Keep up with changes to the sites you care about most. Add a Web Slice and you won't have to go back to the same website again and again for updates on news, stock quotes, online auctions, weather, or even sports scores. Learn more.
A common Web Slice
Search suggestions
Search smarter with detailed suggestions from your favorite search providers and browsing history. See visual previews and get suggested content topics while you type in the enhanced Instant Search Box. Learn more.
A search showing visual content
SmartScreen Filter
New security features help to protect you against deceptive and malicious websites which can compromise your data, privacy and identity. Learn more.
A blocked website because reported as unsafe
Take your web development and design skills to the next level at MIX09. Now in its fourth year, the MIX conference is a gathering of designers and developers who are building the world’s most innovative web sites.
The conference was from 18-20 March, 2009, in Las Vegas, I hope I can attend it one day may be next year I hope :)…
you can enjoy some of the conference sessions by visiting this link here
Enjoy it and wish me good luck to be there next year :)
What will happen if you are hosting your database on a shared hosting environment like webhosting and you need to do some modifications on you database? for example adding new tables or something like this. this task is a true pain if you are going to create and execute a large number of SQL scripts against your hosted database, but by using the Database Publishing Wizard from Microsoft available to download here you have an easy to use tool to publish your database or parts of the database like some tables, stored procedures, users ..etc.
It also helps you to generate your database scripts and save them to your local hard drive for later use..really a great tool that will make your life much much easier, I’ve found a nice article on godaddy.com which can guide you to publishing your database from your local host to a database hosted in shared environment, keep in mind that to accomplish this task you need your host to have a Database Publishing Service, which is the service used by the Database Publishing Wizard to connect to and publish your database.. this article is available here
Thanks a lot for reading this post, this is my first blog, in which I just wanted to highlight the topics that I'm going to publish in my blog (Haitham's Blog), I'm an ASP.NET Developer and in my blog I want to help you to take your ASP.NET application to the professional level, HOW?!! by focusing on the issues that will improve your application architecture, performance, security, maintainability and reliability...I hope I can help you to develop a real world applications, I'm really happy to share my knowledge with you and in the same time I'm ready to learn from you as well, so let's do it and move toward professional ASP.NET applications..