The new release of Visual Studio 2010 has plenty of compelling new features and updates that will make every developer more productive. For instance:
- Visual Studio 2010 allows users target of the right platform for their application, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint. Office, Windows Azure, and Windows Phone 7 applications using their existing skills.
- Visual Studio 2010 is a rich, personalized development environment. We know that software developers spend much of their time in the IDE, and features like the new editor and multi-monitor support make your time in Visual Studio more productive and enjoyable.
Teams are able to work more efficiently using Application Lifecycle Management tools. The Visual Studio 2010 team have done a great deal of work in Visual Studio 2010 to improve testing and debugging tools. Features like IntelliTrace and easy project management help your team ensure high quality.
If you are an MSDN subscriber, later in the day on April 12th you can download Visual Studio 2010 from MSDN.
Open Data Protocol (OData) provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData makes it easy for data to be shared in a manner that follows the philosophy of Open Data and enables the creation of REST-based data services. These services allow resources identified using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and defined in an abstract data model, to be published and edited by Web clients using simple HTTP messages. It enables a new level of data integration across a broad range of clients, servers, services, and tools.
The OData SDK brings together a wealth of resources to help developers participate in the OData including:
- Sample OData online services (northwind, etc) – open a browser and test out an OData Service.
- OData client libraries
- Windows Phone 7 series
- iPhone
- AJAX\Javascript
- PHP
- Java
- .NET
- Silverlight
- Online OData explorer (Source code also available for download from odata.org)
- Data Service Provider toolkit: Whitepaper and sample WCF Data Services provider implementation to demonstrate how to create a data service over *any* data source
- OData validation tool: A test harness and a few sample validation tests to make it easy to validate your OData endpoint. The harness is designed to be easily extended allowing anyone to easily add new tests.
- Netflix has exposed their catalog of movies via OData at http://odata.netflix.com
- Microsoft codename ‘Dallas’ exposes datasets in the cloud and allows developers to access and monetize them using OData
- SQL Azure now features an “OData easy button” – a one click experience to get your SQLAzure database exposed as an OData feed
For more information about OData, please visit its web site at: http://www.odata.org/
Mozilla announced the availability of the first Firefox 3.6 alpha release (codenamed Namoroka). It introduces several new features and brings a number of performance improvements to the popular open source Web browser.
Namoroka, is tentatively expected to arrive in 2010. Performance and customization improvements are a major part of the road-map for it. Mozilla is also exploring some new user interface concepts that could be used to augment the tabbed browsing model.
Namoroka also offers several new CSS features. Among these, is the support for CSS gradients, which allow Web developers to paint the background of an element with a color gradient with multiple color stops. It is based partly on the gradient features described in the HTML 5 Canvas specification.
Although Namoroka is still at a very early stage of development, the 3.6 alpha includes very noticeable performance enhancements through the usage of just-in-time compilation and an optimization technique called tracing to deliver faster JavaScript execution. JavaScript performance in 3.6 is roughly 15 percent faster than in 3.5. It’s possible that we could see it gets even faster as the development cycle progresses.
Click here to download the FireFox 3.6 alpha1
New Web Layout
Through many days of working together with our web designer, graphic designer, and our web developers, we’re proud to present to you our newly design company’s website using a more modernize theme. We also updated the company’s logo to match with the theme and also to help creating a unique branding for our company.
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