Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web.
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
- Minimum 75 GB available HDD space
- The host computer must have a minimum of 2 GB RAM, with 1 GB allocated to the host operating system and 1 GB allocated to the VPC.
- We recommend that the host computer CPU be at least a Core Duo 2 GHz processor.
- Service Pack 1 of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is required to access the VPC.
Iphone Dev Center today released the latest sdk for iphone 2.2.1 which can be downloaded from below.
iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 2.2.1 is an update and bug fix release to the iPhone OS
developer tools. This release includes new, optional GCC and LLVM compilers,
updated project assistant, a simplified toolbar, and additional security enhancements.
The iPhone SDK includes the complete Xcode 3.1.2 developer tools for Mac OS X
development as well as the SDK components for iPhone OS development.
We encourage developers to apply to the iPhone Developer Program for access to
additional support resources, as well as provisioning resources to enable
development directly on an iPhone or iPod touch.
- Use Software Update to install Mac OS X v10.5.5 before installing iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 2.2.1(added 1/27/2009)
- iPhone OS 2.2.1 for iPod touch and iPhone is available through iTunes (installation of iTunes 8 is required)
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Test Automation FX (TAFX for short) enables developers and testers to record and manage user interface tests from inside Visual Studio with 100% .Net code.
Used from inside Visual Studio
The Test Automation FX framework installs inside of Visual Studio (2005 & 2008) and supports full VS integration, with custom project templates and designers allowing you to build automated user interface tests in your favorite IDE.
Tests recorded in with 100% .Net code
All test logic that the Test Automation FX framework records is stored in 100% .Net code. Tests can be recorded in both C# and VB.NET. Recording is however only one way to build your tests. The recording support in TAFX has been developed to generate readable and understandable code. You can then change and refactor your test by adding more objects and test logic manually.
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The new version of .NET framework 4.0 should provide set of new features to target market demands of the near future. Some of these demands have been described in the “Magic Quadrant” post. And here is the list of features which targets connecting systems scenarios only:
WCF 4.0
RESTful enhancements
· Simplifying the building of REST Singleton & Collection Services, ATOM Feed and Publishing Protocol Services, and HTTP Plain XML Services using WCF
· WCF REST Starter Kit to be released on Codeplex to get early feedback
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Download the following .net frameworks.. no need to have internet while installing.. its an offiline package…
Complete Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 & 3.5 setups which are gathered from Microsoft pages (links: v3.5 & v3.0)
# Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Setup
# Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Setup
Short Message Service (SMS)-capable phones are the most common digital-access devices in the world, with more than 2.5 billion devices sold to date. Unfortunately, much of the great data and functionality based in PC networks has been unavailable to SMS-based phones. Just as a PC can be used as a Web server, this technology enables anyone with a Windows smartphone and a PC to create an SMS server, thereby bridging computer networks with that of SMS. In particular, we are excited about this technology because it enables small organizations such as schools, microfinance organizations, and even a lone IT staff worker to experiment and deploy SMS based applications cheaply. They can build these applications using Visual Studio or Excel. Additionally, this technology does not require that a developer gain permission from the local telephone company. The developer just plugs in a phone and pays for any SMS messages her program generates or receives. Sample applications we expect people to create: Schools can SMS hundreds of parents simply by filling out an Excel spreadsheet. Organizations can make their corporate directories easily available to any employer with an SMS cell phone. Sales representatives can SMS a customer name or number to their company’s SMS server and receive that customer’s ERP information. This is mostly an enabling technology that will help many developers to create SMS applications easily and cheaply. We believe that this platform providing SMS “server sessions” is the first of its kind and will make it easy for developers to create dialogue-based interactions via SMS, essentially enabling people to create interfaces as robust as an iPod UI.
F# is a variant of the ML programming language for .NET and has a core language similar to OCaml. F# is a mixed functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language excellent for medium/advanced programmers and for teaching. It also can be used to access hundreds of .NET libraries, and the F# code can be accessed from C# and other .NET languages. This release of F# includes a command-line compiler; “F# for Visual Studio,” which provides interactive syntax highlighting, parsing, type checking, and intellisense for F# code inside Visual Studio 2003/2005/Orcas; and “F# Interactive,” a command-line, top-level environment for F#.
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