The second beta version of Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework v4.0 are now available. VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 deliver significant new capabilities and improvements. The Beta 2 release was focused on performance, stability, and the integration of the overall feature set. The development team is awaiting our feedback on the product and preparing for the final release candidate (RC). Beta 2 includes a “go-live” license, which means you can start using these tools for your production projects.
VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 are slated to be released on March 22, 2010.
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More details about Beta 2 from Scott Gu
The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. A product of the Microsoft Silverlight product team, the Silverlight Toolkit adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. It includes full open source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for over 26 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.
What’s new in the October 2009 release:
- Visual Studio 2010 integration with the fully interactive designer.
- Drag and drop support for key controls including TreeView, ListBox, and charting.
- Charting API improvements.
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IIS Media Services 3.0 is a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package.
In addition, the beta of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit allows developers to easily create Smooth Streaming experiences using Silverlight. Supported features include PlayReady, DVR controls, instant replay, slow motion, multiple camera angles, alternate audio tracks, content protection, ad integration, in-stream data feeds, and more.
IIS Media Services
IIS Media Services’ Advanced Logging extension provides access to both real-time client and server side logs for media experiences delivered over HTTP. Advanced Logging also allows third-party analytics providers to easily access data in real-time as well as extend the set of metrics that are captured from either the client or the server.
Advanced Logging provides rich, flexible data collection and real-time logging capabilities. Log any of the HTTP request/response headers, IIS server variables and client-side fields to track end-user engagement. Generate logs per IIS application, create custom logging for modules, or implement hierarchical logging. Set up a central log farm to collect and log client-side metrics and create multiple logs per request, with each log containing purpose-specific data.
IIS Advanced Logging 1.0 is now available and includes the following features:
- Client-side logging
- Centralized logging
- Multiple Logs per request
- Real-time logging
- Rich/Flexible logging
- Application Logging
- Module Specific Log fields
- Log Filtering
IIS Advanced Logging
The good news is that Microsoft .NET Framework is installed on a majority of Windows PCs. The bad news is if you are developing an application with the newest version of .NET (3.5), nearly half of Windows PCs cannot run your app.
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Git# is a native Windows version of the fast and free open-source version control system. It is aimed to be fully compatible to the original git and shall be a lightweight library for applications that are based on git as their object database or are reading or manipulating repositories in some way.
How you can use Git#:
- object-oriented interface to your git repository
- object database
- distributed file system
- peer-to-peer content distribution system
- version control system
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YUI 3 is Yahoo!’s next-generation JavaScript and CSS library. YUI 3 powers the new Yahoo! homepage and incorporates what we’ve learned in five years of dedicated library development. Today, the YUI 3 Core and a full utility set are ready for use. All YUI projects are BSD-licensed and are available for forking and contribution on GitHub.
YUI 3 is the first major redesign of YUI since 2005 and includes the following modernizations:
- Selector-driven: YUI 3 is built around one of the lightest, fastest selector engines available, bringing the expressive power of the CSS selector specification into actions that target DOM nodes.
- Syntactically terse: Without polluting the global namespace, YUI 3 supports a more terse coding style in which more can be accomplished with less code.
- Self-completing: YUI 3’s light (6.2KB gzipped) seed file can serve as the starting point for any implementation. As long as this seed file is present on the page, you can load any module in the library on the fly. And all modules brought into the page via the built-in loader are done so via combo-handled, non-blocking HTTP requests. This makes loading the library safe, easy and fast.
- Sandboxed: YUI modules are bound to YUI instances when you
use() them; this protects you against changes that might happen later in the page’s lifecycle. (In other words, if someone blows away a module you’re using after you’ve created your YUI instance, your code won’t be affected.)
YUI 3
YUI 3 Announcement on Yahoo Blog
Windows Embedded is a componentized, real-time operating system to deliver compelling experiences on a wide range of small footprint consumer and enterprise devices.
With the latest release of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3, device manufacturers can use familiar tools and innovative technologies to create devices differentiated by an immersive user interface, a rich browsing experience, and a unique connection to Windows PCs, servers, services, and devices. By building on the high performance and highly reliable Windows Embedded CE platform, device makers can bring their device to market quickly and efficiently.
Microsoft’s Silverlight technology comes to Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 as an out-of-browser, native code implementation, and the presence of Silverlight for Windows Embedded should deliver the foundation for rich UIs on devices powered by the OS.
Unfortunately, at this point a “Silverlight for Windows Embedded” application will run out of the browser and only support native C++ (no managed code).
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3
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Shinedraw.com has released a collection of more than 100 free Silverlight controls, components and tools found across the Web. You can view a demo and download the code right on the site. A reference to the original website is also provided.
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