Visual Studio 2010

The next version of Visual Studio is Visual Studio 2010 and the next version of .Net Framework is .Net 4.0.

There are two major features of Visual Studio 2010.

1. Cloud Development : Microsoft Announced Windows Azure, The comprehensive cloud environment on Oct 27 2008. With Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio you can build, debug and deploy services and applications for Windows Azure.
2. Parallel Programming : Microsoft is committed to simplify parallel programming for both native and managed code developers, so they can safely and productively build robust, scalable and responsive applications.

Microsoft® Visual Studio 2010® bears the stamp of Microsoft’s commitment and provides a solid foundation for the parallel age. Its significant improvements to the core platform and tools for both native and managed applications offer developers improved confidence, simplicity, and productivity in producing parallel applications. It will include the following:

• Visual Studio IDE support for parallel programming
• Parallel Pattern Library: Native C++ libraries that use lambda functions and align well with STL
• Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework: Librarybased support for imperative data and task parallelism via the Task Parallel Library, support for declarative data parallelism via PLINQ, and work coordination and managing hared state via the Coordination Data Structures
• Concurrency Runtime: Resource management of the multicore hardware and task scheduling
• Parallel debugging windows which will provide a view of tasks running in the application, and a graphical view of parallel call stacks.
• Parallel profiling views which will give developers an understanding of their application’s core utilization, thread behavior and contention blocking, and thread execution pattern per core.

Some highlights

• The editor in Visual Studio 2010 has been rebuilt using WPF
• One Click Deployment
• Inline Call hierarchy
• Sharepoint Development
• C++ Development

Among the great new functionality in Visual Studio Team System 2010:

• Discover and identify existing code assets and architecture with the new Architecture Explorer.
• Design and share multiple diagram types, including use case, activity and sequence diagrams.
• Improve testing efforts with tooling for better documentation of test scenarios and more thorough collection of test data.
• Identify and run only the tests impacted by a code change easily with the new Test Impact View.
• Enhanced version control capabilities including gated check-in, branch visualization and build workflow.

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Google Street View Launches in few Cities

Google has launched the Google Street View in few Cities of Britain.
All you need to do is open google maps of UK. http://maps.google.co.uk. Click on the New Feature
Explore the World in pictures with Google Street View in UK
Now Search any location in UK. Here is the demonstration of the Google Street View.



Steps to use Google Street View:

1. Navigate to your desired location
2. To view street-level imagery for a specific location, click and drag to the location you want. Roads with street-level imagery available appear with a blue border.
3. A street-level view appears for this location with an overview map in the bottom right corner of the view. A movable Pegman icon appears in the overview map.
4. To close the view, click or or .

   Learn more about Street View

Here are few screenshots of the Google Street View

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Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft officials at the company's MIX09 conference said, IE 8 would become available for download from the Internet Explorer 8 web site at 9 a.m. pacific time on March 19.

According to News, Microsoft also is announcing that there are more than 500 new add-ons for IE 8 in the way of accelerators, web slices and visual search.

Accelerators are a form of selection-based search that enables a user to invoke an online service from any other page using only the mouse. Accelerators eliminate the need to copy and paste content between web pages. IE8 specifies an X M L-based encoding that enables a web application or web service to be invoked as an Accelerator service. Web Slices are snippets of an entire page that a user can subscribe to. Web Slices will be kept updated by the browser automatically, and can be viewed directly from the browser's Favorites bar, complete with graphics and visuals.

The key priorities of IE8 are :

1. Security
   
2. Easy of Use
   
3. Improvements in RSS
4. CSS
5. AJAX

According to a Microsoft fact sheet, here are the ways Internet Explorer 8 makes browsing faster and easier:

• Smart Address Bar
• Tab Groups
• Redesigned New Tab Page
• Reopen Last Browsing Session
• Enhanced Find On Page
• Find On Page
  
• Result count
• Result highlighting
• Slipstream installation => Deploying IE8 with Windows Vista
• Simplified Internet Explorer Administration Kit => To help IT Pros in deploying IE8 easily
• Advanced Printing
• Easy Search box
• RSS Feeds
• Page Zoom

Coming to Security, IE8 comes with variety of features like InPrivate Browsing, InPrivate Filtering etc., to ensure that History, temporary Internet files and cookies are not recorded on a PC after browsing.

You can Download Internet Explorer 8 from below link

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Microsoft Rocks the Web at MIX09 <3

Microsoft delivers a slew of new Web development and design technologies at its MIX09 show.
Microsoft released Silverlight 3 beta and Expression Belnd 3 Preview, and continued progress in the cloud with updates to the Azure Services platform

Microsoft demonstrated a series of technologies to enable developers to deliver a rich, interactiv epresence on the Web.

Microsoft also demnostrated SketchFlow, a new capability that allows designers to quickly prototype the flow and composition of applications.

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Few Funny Pics

This is what I was waiting for. Really. I want a software like this. I used to forget few things where I kept in my home. So immediately I think that. Go infront of my home. Click on the search and search for the Item missing :P. hehe.. that was really funny. :)

Some one please do this kind of software :) and thanks to the guy who created this funny pic :) :P

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Google Releases New Version of Google Chrome

Although Google has launched Google Chrome on December 11 2008, it is going to release a new version of Google Chrome with more enhancements and features to the exisitng version.

Google says that the new version is twice as fast as the old version of Google Chrome.

The new features include basic form autofill, full page zoom, support for autoscroll, and a new way to drag tabs into side-by-side view.

You can download the latest version of the Google Chrome (BETA) from here. Click here

\m/ n@pster

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