Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0

Microsoft is coming up with the new version of Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft has planned to officially lanch the new version in november this year. I don’t know what microsoft is trying to do, still a lot of people are working on visual studio 2005 and they are fully satisfied by it.

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http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Visual-Studio-2010-and-the-NET-Framework-40-Week

Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security

by Mitch Tulloch

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Free Windows Live Hotmail POP3 Access Has Gone Worldwide

Hotmail has now made its POP3 email feature available worldwide to all Hotmail accounts. POP3 also called Post Office Protocol version 3 is an Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection.

Enable Hotmail POP3 in Thunderbird, Outlook, Becky

Enabling POP3 access from Hotmail allows you to easily access your emails using the e-mail software on your computer (like Thunderbird, Outlook) or mobile devices such as a Windows Mobile phone, iPhone, or BlackBerry.

Here are the email client settings you need for starting POP3

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID (full email address)
Password: Hotmail or Windows Live password
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
Authentication required? Yes (same POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

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http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/03/13/free-windows-live-hotmail-pop3-access-has-gone-worldwide

Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0

The Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0 is a software package created by Microsoft to help students learn about computer programming. It consists of the following five components:
Sort Designer Control is a supplementary teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular computer sorting algorithms. It supports bubble and insertion sorting. The control generates initial values automatically and demonstrates intermediate states in the sorting process. It also generates sorting source code for both Visual Basic and C#.
Search Designer Control is a teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular data search algorithms. It supports binary and sequential searches. The control generates initial values automatically and demonstrates intermediate states in the searching process. It also generates source code for both Visual Basic and C#.

Using the Visual Sort Designer and Visual Search Designer Controls teachers can easily develop a sample program to demonstrate the fundamentals of sorting and searching. They can also customize the control’s appearance by simply dragging the control onto a form and setting its properties. These visual demonstrations help in teaching programming concepts and increase students’ interest in learning.
Visual Declarative Designer is an intuitive variable declaration tool designed for novice programmers. During the coding process the student can declare variables of various types and generate the corresponding source code. Visual Variable Declarative Designer provides a visual approach to variable declaration. Teachers in the Information Technology (IT) field can use this designer to teach students the basic concepts of variable declaration and naming, variable types, access modifiers, and initial values.
Assistant Class Designer is a visual class designer for novice programmers. This designer guides students through the processes of adding classes, properties, methods and events. The designer also generates the corresponding source code for new classes. By using this designer, teachers and students can easily create and configure complicated classes. Assistant Class Designer provides an intuitive and interactive method for designing classes and helps students to understand key object-oriented programming concepts such as classes, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. The Assistant Class Designer generates source code for C# only.
Visual Programming Flow Chart is a supplementary teaching tool designed to help students understand program control flow. It generates flow charts for functions and saves them in the JPG picture format. This tool is easily activated from the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by simply right-clicking on a function name and choosing “Generate flow chart…” from the context menu. The resulting flowchart can be customized by changing its colors and other effects. This visual tool provides an intuitive way to explore source code, to examine its control flow, and to identify logic errors.

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MS Offers Peek At Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0

Microsoft is giving customers and channel partners their first look at the next generation of its Visual Studio and .NET Framework developer tools and platform. The move comes less than a year after Microsoft debuted the current releases of those products, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.

Application life-cycle management will be a key theme in the Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0, Microsoft said Monday. Visual Studio Team System 2010, code-named “Rosario,” will “democratize” ALM by better integrating the stages of software development and eliminating what the company calls the siloed tasks carried out by core developers, testers, project managers, designers and business analysts.

Microsoft did not provide a date for when the new development tools would be ready.

Other focus areas for the new development tools will be enabling developers to take advantage of emerging trends such as cloud computing and more capabilities for developing what Microsoft called “breakthrough” departmental applications.

VSTS is an extended version of Visual Studio .NET with collaboration and communication features that allow development teams to coordinate their work. VSTS 2010 will make it easier for all members of a software development team to participate through the life cycle of a project.

VSTS 2010 will provide modeling tools for creating and using models to collaborate and graphically define business workflows and system functionality. It will support the Unified Modeling Language and Domain Specific Language. And new testing features will help integrate testing across the life cycle. Microsoft said it has also boosted the collaboration capabilities in the toolset’s Team Foundation Server, making it easier for development teams to adopt Agile development processes.

Microsoft is also merging VSTS Development and VSTS Database in the 2010 release, a move the company said will improve integration across development life cycle tasks. Current Software Assurance customers that own VSTS 2008 Development Edition or VSTS 2008 Database Edition will receive both tools for free starting Oct. 1, plus Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Software Developers and Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Database Professionals.

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http://www.crn.com/software/210604526?cid=CRNFeed

Microsoft Offers Peek At Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0

Microsoft is giving customers and channel partners their first look at the next generation of its Visual Studio and .NET Framework developer tools and platform. The move comes less than a year after Microsoft debuted the current releases of those products, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.

Application life-cycle management will be a key theme in the Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0, Microsoft said Monday. Visual Studio Team System 2010, code-named “Rosario,” will “democratize” ALM by better integrating the stages of software development and eliminating what the company calls the siloed tasks carried out by core developers, testers, project managers, designers and business analysts.

Microsoft did not provide a date for when the new development tools would be ready.

Other focus areas for the new development tools will be enabling developers to take advantage of emerging trends such as cloud computing and more capabilities for developing what Microsoft called “breakthrough” departmental applications.

VSTS is an extended version of Visual Studio .NET with collaboration and communication features that allow development teams to coordinate their work. VSTS 2010 will make it easier for all members of a software development team to participate through the life cycle of a project.

VSTS 2010 will provide modeling tools for creating and using models to collaborate and graphically define business workflows and system functionality. It will support the Unified Modeling Language and Domain Specific Language. And new testing features will help integrate testing across the life cycle. Microsoft said it has also boosted the collaboration capabilities in the toolset’s Team Foundation Server, making it easier for development teams to adopt Agile development processes.

Microsoft is also merging VSTS Development and VSTS Database in the 2010 release, a move the company said will improve integration across development life cycle tasks. Current Software Assurance customers that own VSTS 2008 Development Edition or VSTS 2008 Database Edition will receive both tools for free starting Oct. 1, plus Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Software Developers and Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Database Professionals.

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Microsoft Preps Live Hotmail Refresh

 

Microsoft Preps Live Hotmail Refresh

Microsoft has been doing a lot this week to help boost the image of the future for their Live services, along with the recently released “wave 3″ of Windows Live utilities, Microsoft has sent an email out to their Live Hotmail subscribers outlining some of the changes they have planned to give a boost to the service.

Based on customer feedback, Microsoft has focused on making the next version of Live Hotmail faster, in fact they claim the next version will be nearly 70% faster when signing in, opening and viewing messages when used with a broadband connection and up to 56% faster on slower connections.

To add a new twist to the ever increasing storage-size war between Microsoft, Google and Yahoo… Microsoft has upped the ante by planning to introduce a storage system that “will grow with you” — while not mentioning specifics, they claim that as you need more storage for your messages, you’ll get it and while there will be a limit it will be “so large that chances are you won’t even come close to them.”

Other new features include the ability to IM directly from the Hotmail interface, improvements to the calendaring system and a revamped UI. Rumor has it that the UI will attempt to merge some of the innovations of the latest version with the more familiar, simpler, Hotmail that layout users were used to before the last upgrade.

Microsoft Search Server Express is FREE!

 

Microsoft Search Server Express is FREE!

The people in your organization are hard at work making things happen. When they need publicly available information to get the job done, they know how to search on the Internet to find it. But when they need information available within your business, they need enterprise search.

You want a search solution that allows you to deliver the simple, easy-to-use experience your users expect, while at the same time meeting the security and manageability requirements your IT environment demands.

Featured Resources

FAST Search and Transfer
FAST Search and Transfer is now a Microsoft subsidiary.

Search Server 2008 Express Heroes
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express heroes change the way their organization uses search to find information. Find out how Search Server Express made these IT Professionals into Search Heroes.

The Search Connector Gallery
Learn more about extending your Microsoft enterprise search solution to connect with your information and business systems using Indexing and Federated Search Connectors

Microsoft Partners
Learn more about the Quickstart for Microsoft Search Program
Get redistribution rights for Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

Forrester Report: “Microsoft: The Latest Disrupter in Enterprise Search”
This Forrester report examines Microsoft’s expanded enterprise search offerings. Analyst Ken Poore writes “Microsoft Search Server 2008 raises the bar and frees up search. This week, Microsoft made its latest move into the enterprise search platforms market with two strategic products: Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008.” 

Read More:

http://www.microsoft.com/Enterprisesearch/

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http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/try-1.aspx

Enjoy………!!!!!!!!!!