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Windows 7 Launches tommorow

The wait is over.....come 22nd Oct 2009 - Windows 7 will finaly be launched.
 
How Windows 7 compares? See it to believe it!
 
New to Windows 7? Take a Tour

Get ready for SharePoint 2010

Public beta of 'SharePoint 2010' was announced yesterday....You can preregister for the Beta here

The short named (without 'Office') avatar has entire Features Wheel redefined. WSS is now 'SharePoint Foundation 2010'

for detailed info visit Sharepoint 2010 site (and for the lazy ones here is an overview and if you are not much of a reader watch some videos here.. no excuses)

Not a new news but But if you still do not have x64 hardware you are not yet ready for it.

Finally Free AntiVirus from Microsoft!

download it from here  - nJoy:)

Just Released patterns & practices Guidance - SharePoint

Download Guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems : Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009

Connecting TFS 2008 from TFS 2010

You might encounter following error if you try to connect to Team Foundation Server 2008 from TFS 2010 Beta 1 even after clearing 'Path' Text Box

TF31001: Cannot connect to Team Foundation Server at <xyz>. The server returned the following error: The ServicePointManager does not support proxies with the https scheme.


Solution:

Run Command Prompt as Administrator and run following commands...

reg add hklm\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\TeamFoundation\RequestSettings /v BypassProxyOnLocal /t REG_SZ /d False
reg add hklm\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TeamFoundationServer\10.0\RequestSettings /v BypassProxyOnLocal /t REG_SZ /d False

Additionally on a 64-bit machine...

reg add hklm\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\TeamFoundationServer\10.0\RequestSettings /v BypassProxyOnLocal /t REG_SZ /d False
reg add hklm\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\TeamFoundation\RequestSettings /v BypassProxyOnLocal /t REG_SZ /d False

 

Google Chrome OS

So finally it was true.
 
Google announced a light weight open source OS called 'Google Chrome OS'
 
According to Google...
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010"
 
Did you get the big picture yet...where Google is heading??
 

Download XNA Studio 3.1

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1 was announced last month...among several new features, main ones include - avatars, Xbox LIVE Party support, and video as well as enhancements to existing features...
 
down load it from here

Download Complete XNA Game programming course (using C#)

A 367 MB, complete programming course for XNA game development using C#.. is available for download for free!
 
Download it from here.
 
You may want to skip faculty signin and directly go to the download.

Bingo....Microsoft New Search - 'Bing'

Today, at Carlsbad, CA, Stev Balmer announced the release of Bing, Microsoft's new search engine! Bing.com is open to internal employees and will be available to public on June 3.
 

Internally Codenamed 'Kumo' , Bing is launched as a decision engine that goes beyond what people have come to think of as search

Personally I believe thats right. Search Engine is outdated concept, we need decision engines and Knowledge engines in todays world..Internet is plethora of information. not only search logic but different algorithms should be applied to take us as nearer as possible to 'answers' what we are looking for, without getting lost in the Web.

Groove is now 'SharePoint Workspace 2010' !

Heads up – Groove is getting a new name as of the coming release of Office 2010.
 
SharePoint Workspace 2010
 

Axum - New language for Parallel Development

Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for .NET
 
Download
- Axum from here
- Axum Programmer's Guide from here

Win 7 series of Videos

This series introduces Windows 7 with an emphasis on those new features that will be of most interest and use to developers. Watch it here

SharePoint Designer is now FREE

download it from here

IE8 Developer Tools

If you haven't already checkout this great tool that comes out-of-the-box with IE8!

Press                     To

F12                         Open Developer Tools Window

CTRL+P                 Pin Developer Tools window to IE window

CTRL+M               Minimize Developer Tools (silently sits at bottom, above status bar)

And try following Feature(some are similar to developer toolbars/addons which have to be installed seperately earlier)

- Find-> Select Element by Click

- Outline

- Color Picker

- Resizer

- JavaScript Profiler

- Browser mode

- Validation

- Dynamic CSS

- Script Debugging

- Search box

more shortcuts...

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