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  Programming with HTML5 and related technologies http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/4f39070b-c435-4de5-9f50-0d2852c1dfbe Visual Studio 2010 SP1 for Web Developers http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/90b79e80-eae9-47c8-a4f4-a2431e62178d ASP.NET MVC3 Development with Visual Studio 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/fd907f28-bcbd-4a00-871f-

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Now you can directly provide feedback on TFS to the team in terms of new features which you want to see in next version. You can also vote on existing new features requested. Reach to this site for providing feedback http://visualstudioalm.uservoice.com/forums/100197-visual-studio-alm

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There are still few months before we start getting the beta of Visual Studio vNext including TFS but the recent public announcements and demos have already created lot of excitement. This will be a next major release after Visual Studio 2010. Here are few of the important features coming up in ALM space. Onboarding Stakeholder & Operations teams on TFS Storyboarding tool primarily for

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Enterprise Library is one free code library which is recommended for every development team who wants to focus on writing business code instead of spending too much time on writing framework code. By using EL you automatically bring lots of best practices and patterns to your application. P&P team has announced the release of version 5.0.  Though no new block has been added, there are

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While installing documentation, you will be asked for value of ‘Library Location’ which is actually the place where local help will be installed. This cannot be changed once given and even uninstall/install of VS 2010 won’t help. So be careful. VS 2010 uses new help system called Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0 and so different experience. If you really need to change it .. uninstall VS 2010 and

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A big reason for developer community to smile and celebrate. Dev tools team at Microsoft has again done a great job.   Here are few important links : Soma’s launch announcement Watch Launch Keynote Compare Various Editions What's new in .NET Framework 4.0 What's new in Visual Studio 2010 - Rosario

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If you are facing issue in connecting to VSTS 2010 RC from your VS 2008 Team Explorer, the possible issue can be due to missing of following update. KB974558 : Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) You can download and manually install from here.

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Read all the details here.

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MSDN team has added low bandwidth version also to various view options available for MSDN library pages. Standard View http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode.aspx Low Bandwidth View http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode(loband).aspx PDA http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode(pda).aspx Robots http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/

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2010 is going to see the next launch wave of Microsoft Products. ‘Office 14’ has been named as Office 2010 based on its launch schedule. Exchange 2010 is expected to launch in late 2009 while rest of the Office products in 2010. Remember there was no ‘Office 13’. After ‘Office 12’ its directly ‘Office 14’. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 are also expected to be launch in 2010. So get ready…..

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OBAs (Office Business Applications) are new types of application/solutions which are built on Office System 2007 as a platform and so deployed on top of Office System 2007 apps. The development stream to develop OBAs is called Office Development and the tools used to develop OBAs are called VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office). A typical Information worker in any industry today uses various

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Now you can read the captions in Visual Studio in following languages: Arabic, Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Malayalam, Oriya, Polish, Tamil and Turkish. The Microsoft Captions Language Interface Pack (CLIP) is a simple language translation solution that uses tooltip captions to display translations for English user interface terms. CLIP is designed for those Visual Studio users who are not very

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Bill Gates recently launched the DreamSpark initiative which provides free Microsoft software to students in India. It can be downloaded from Internet or DVD can be collected from partners after verifying the student status. Following products are available : VS 2008 Professional Edition Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition Expression Studio

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The CTP of VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 is available for download from here. Its available as Virtual PC image only and total download size is around 7GB. What's new in .NET Framework 4.0 What's new in 'Dublin' Windows Application Server What's new in Visual Studio 2010 - Rosario What's new in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

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The main objectives of this release are: A tool for everyone involved in Application Lifecycle Management Absolute delight for Architects with lot of focus on Modeling Make testing easier and more effective. Read the complete list and details here. New in VS 2010

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Check out my latest quick article covering following: New in .NET 3.5 SP1 New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Download links for .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 Article : What’s new in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 I will be adding more to it.

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Last year in August when I blogged about the new features coming up in Rosario, little was known about the time frame of its release. The latest press release from Microsoft gives lots of information about it .. Rosario is Visual Studio 2010 and will target Microsoft.NET 4.0. This also marks the beginning of first wave for OSLO platform. The main objective of VS 2010 will be to fill some of

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Here is the list : Visual C++ 2008 SP1 - x86 Runtime Visual C++ 2008 SP1 - x64 Runtime Visual C++ 2008 SP1 - IA64 Runtime Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 Microsoft Office Visual Web Developer 2007 Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite - ENU Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Performance Collection Tools - ENU Visual Studio

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Links for download : Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1 (Bootstrappers) Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1 (iso) Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Bootstrapper) Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) Visual Studio  Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 New/Enhancements in

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If you are in the process of selecting Visual Studio for yourself or your team and confused on which edition you should go for… Here are few links which will solve all your queries. About Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Download : Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Data Sheet

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New site launched exclusively for developers : http://www.mssharepointdevelopers.com/ VS 2008 extensions for Sharepoint Development released : Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2 Version 1.2 is only for Visual Studio 2008.  If you use Visual Studio 2005 you should still use Version 1.1. Visual Studio 2008 Project Templates Web Part

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If you are not able to attend TechEd but still want to be part of it and want to know about all exciting things .. catch it on TechEd Online. It covers the event happening in all the countries. Waiting for the announcement on TechEd India 2008. TechEd Online

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.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta brings in Client Profile of the .NET Framework which contains only those part of the framework which are relevant for Windows Client applications.  It can be packaged with application itself and so no prior requirement of having .NET framework on client machines. Here is the list of features as of now which will be available : BCL, "Core FX," and LINQ

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Online documentation is available for SP1 beta of .NET 3.5 and VS 2008. Check out all the enhancements coming up in SP1. .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta Documentation Service Pack 1 Beta released for VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

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