Microsoft eLearning course for free

HI

If you are an ASP.NET developer, or thinking of learning ASP.NET, Microsoft Learning and MSDN are giving away two of MSPress's most popular ASP.NET books and a US$349 eLearning course for free. Seriously, you get the Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET eLearning course and the eRef version of Microsoft ASP.NET Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Step by Step and Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET for free, no strings attached.

Go over to the eLearning Access site

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/enterCode.aspx

and enter the access key: 8317-MSDN-6595. Fill in some basic info, and voila, tons of great ASP.NET info.

Add MSN / Google Search to your site

Now you can add Google search or MSN search to your site and can provide the search for the visiters.

to add MSN search copy the code from the following page and paste that to your webpage. you can also provide the search for your won website . DOn't forgot to make the neccesary changes as mention.

http://search.msn.co.in/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_AddMSNSearchToYourSite.htm
and to add Google
copy the code from

http://www.google.com/searchcode.html#standard

and paste that to your webpage . Google also privides something called "Google safesearch" With Google Free SafeSearch, sites and web pages containing adult themed and explicit sexual content are excluded from web search results

so try this and Enjoy !!!

How to add a blog entry on MSN Spaces using Email

From Abhishek Kant's Web Blogs

How to add a blog entry on MSN Spaces using Email

Figured with the launch of MSN Spaces you should have a way of blogging via email as well. Blogging via email has 3 immediate uses:

1. If your corporate environment doesn't let you access the internet. however, you can send email outside the organisation.

2. Sometimes Internet connectivity is just too bad / slow that you would prefer to write an email.

3. Email is something that you can work on intermittently. Write a bit, save the email and then come back to finish it later.

So what does it take to blog using Email on MSN Spaces? Well just a little configuration... here is what you do:

1. Sign into your spaces using passport credentials

2. Click on the “Settings” text at the top right corner, below the “Sign Out” button

3. Click on the “Mobile Settings” tab text

4. Check “Turn on Mobile Publishing” box

5. Make sure that the email ID you are going to use to send the blog entries is correctly mentioned in the textbox below. Well I confirmed that any other post sent from unspecified email ID doesn't make it to the blog.

6. Provide the secret word. This prevents others from adding blog entries even if they have access to your email account.

7. The next choice let’s you decide whether you want the entries you mail to appear instantly or you want them to be kept as draft till it is manually approved by you. If you want the post instantly once mailed choose the “Publish entries immediately. ” choice button.

8. You can see the email address where you should send your entries to.

9. Compose an email and send it to the email known from the Step 8. If you had pictures attached with the email they will also appear on the blog! Even the formatting (bold, italics etc) is maintained in the post.

Community Interaction Hour

Want to share your opinions about Microsoft Community?

Come join us at the “Community Interaction Hour”. This will be conducted every month on the 2nd Tuesday from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM. The first one will be conducted on April 12. Just point your browser to http://www.microsoft.com/india/communities/chat/chatroom.aspx and start chatting with the Microsoft Community.

For more on the community hour, read the following blog post by Abhishek Kant, Community Program Manager, Microsoft India

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Community Interaction Hour
Community is paramount to Microsoft as a company and as a technology. Community is the reason why Microsoft is able to build better products that are more developer friendly and tuned to customer needs..
To listen to community feedback and act on it, we are launching "Community Interaction Hour".. this is basically an hour (or more as needed) every month when the community team will be available online to chat with community members. The chat is focussed on discussing and sharing our experiences in the community and help each other grow. The chats will be conducted once a month on 2nd Tuesday of every month (i.e. 12 April, 10 May, 14 June, 12 July..) from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM... If the question is why only once a month - We are starting with once a month for now. If community wants more such chats we will increase the frequency as well..
to participate you just need to point your browser to: www.microsoft.com/india/communities/chat/chatroom.aspx and start chatting... (you will need a passport login to login into the chat.. you don't need to have a hotmail/msn email ID to have a passport account... any email ID e.g. @infosys.com or @yahoo.com can be registered as passport login by going to www.passport.com)
for the developers and other technology professionals who want to find guidance on how to participate in community activities, it will an ideal platform to reach out to. Moreover, you can get to know about the people who are active in the community in your region.
If you have a suggestion to make or share your opinion on something on Microsoft we are listening to you!

Google Desktop is now out of beta

Google Desktop (http://desktop.google.com) is now out of beta. Among the new features, you have full-fledged API support (which is really cool), a floating box on your desktop where you can search from and Thunderbird support. See http://battellemedia.com/archives/001305.php for more