New Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers
The kit is built for both native Win32 C++ developers and .NET developers.
To help you get your application on Windows 7 as soon as possible, the updated Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers for the RTM version has a new look and better functionality.
The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This kit is designed to help you learn how to build applications that shine on Windows 7 by utilizing it's key features
Scott Hanselman in his MIX09 Nurddiner talk highlighting ASP.Net on MVC showed us the newly launched Mobile Device Browser File rendering your Web page on a Blackberry or an iPhone.
The Mobile Browser Definition File contains definitions for individual mobile devices and browsers. At run time, ASP.NET uses the information in the request header to determine what type of device/browser has made the request.
This project provides a data file that when used with ASP.NET will detect the incoming mobile device and present you as the web developer with a set of 67 capabilities or properties describing the requesting device. These capabilities range from screen size to cookie support and provide all the information you need to adaptively render content for mobile phones and devices
Miguel de Icaza and his world wide Team are announcing Moonlight 1.0 goes live
Moonlight, the open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems has officially reached its 1.0 level, feature complete, passing all the Microsoft regression test suites.
Moonlight is available as a Firefox plugin today!
This is a tremendous accomplishment, I met Miguel back at ReMIX Boston where he told Brad Abrams and the rest of us the Moonlight story.
February Update to the Azure Services Training Kit
The Azure Services Evangelism team just released an update to the Azure Services Training Kit.
Download, run the self-extracting executable to extract all of the training kit files to your local machine. After the content is extracted, the starting page will be displayed in your default browser
CPU Auxiliary Cores
Parallel computing is not an add-on or a library that we use. It goes much deeper into the system design and architecture. The quest has begon to discover a system model that's a design pattern for parallel processing. A collection of multi-core system architecture design pattern has begon at the Asynchronous Operations community site.
The Live Framework Tools team just announced the January CTP update. This update contains a number of fixes.
Debugging or running a Mesh-enabled Web Application which contains no changes from previous versions immediately launches the application instead of re-uploading the files.
Mesh-enabled Web Applications created by the Live Framework Tools now have identical offers to those created through the Azure Services Developer Portal, which are generally less restrictive. This change removes the need for this workaround
The Live Framework Tools January CTP includes a number of bug fixesSeadragon from Microsoft Live Labs is about changing the way we use screens, from wall-sized to cell phones. In Silverlight graphics and photos are smoothly browsed, regardless of the bandwidth or size of the file.
Get Seadragon Deep Zoom functionality by using Photosynth to see-close-ups of your pictures and also stitch many photos together into a 3-D space.
Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites.
Oxite is ASP.NET MVC based CMS that will now compete with Graffiti, DotNetNuke and Sitecore Xpress
