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Date Added: ffffgf 11/19/2006 06:53
Meet the crew behind Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Microsoft has released to manufacturing its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, meaning these technologies are available for download on MSDN to subscribers today, the company said Monday. The products will be offered on disk within the next few weeks. Trial subscriptions also are available now. Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 are accessible on MSDN here. Among other things, Visual Studio 2008 is Microsoft's development platform geared to building Windows Vista applications. During a recent conference, difficulties with building Vista applications with the existing Visual Studio 2005 platform were cited by an attendee, who was assured that the solution is to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft is touting Visual Studio 2008 as a platform for professional developers as well as hobbyists and teams. "I am incredibly proud to be a part of the team that is truly advancing the state of developer tools," said S. "Soma" Somasegar, Microsoft corporate vice president for the company's developer division, in his blog on Monday. "We hope that Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 enables you as an individual or as a team to build great applications. Whether you are a professional developer or a software enthusiast, are building applications for the client, server, Web, or devices, we hope you have fun with these products as your software is our passion," Somasegar said. Microsoft with Visual Studio 2008 is offering enhancements in every edition of the product, including Visual Studio Express for hobbyists and Visual Studio Team System for team-based development. With more than 250 new features, Visual Studio 2008 includes such improvements as visual designers to speed development with .Net Framework 3.5 and upgrades to Web development tools and language enhancements, the company said. A highlight of particular interest is LINQ (Language Integrated Query), which the company said closes the gap between programming objects and data. Developers can focus on what they need the data to do rather than on how to access it, the company said. Microsoft is positioning LINQ as a technology for rapid application development. "LINQ is the star," said Greg DeMichillie, lead analyst for application platforms at Directions on Microsoft. LINQ makes it easier to tie together C# or Visual Basic with SQL, he said. "Everything else in Visual Studio 2008 is useful to some set of developers or another, but LINQ hits the entire spectrum of developers," he said. Also included in Visual Studio 2008 are advanced development tools and debugging features, Microsoft said. Developers can target multiple versions of the .Net Framework, including versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5, and build AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) -enabled Web applications. Tools are featured to speed development of connected applications on platforms, including the Web, Vista, Office 2007, the SQL Server 2008 database, and Windows Server 2008. Web developers can leverage ASP.Net and other technologies. New ASP.Net controls allow for better page management and templates. Web development is boosted through new support for Web server communication techniques for AJAX/JSON-enabled Web sites. .Net Framework 3.5 is intended to enable rapid construction of connected applications; it offers pre-fabricated software for solving common programming tasks. Web 2.0, SOA, and software-and-services applications are supported in version 3.5. Included in.Net Framework 3.5 are enhancements to the base library, Windows Workflow Foundation; Windows Communication Foundation for Web services; Windows Presentation Foundation for presentation; and Windows CardSpace, for digital identities. WCF supports native REST (Representational State Transfer) and RSS and backs multiple Web services specifications. These include Web Services Atomic Transactions 1.1, WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Coordination 1.1. Visual Studio Team System 2008, meanwhile, is an application lifecycle management system with tools, processes, and guidance. It supports management of application builds. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a collaboration server for Visual Studio Team System. Featured in the 2008 edition of TFS are: Improved performance and security; support for such configurations as clusters, mirrors, and virtual machines; continuous integration; and scheduled builds. Also highlighted in TFS are version control features, query build improvements, and Web access to version control, work item tracking, and status reports. Microsoft used TFS to manage this release of Visual Studio 2008. "TFS enables process enactment, collects a lot of data, and enables reporting on it. It provides visibility to everyone and it enables enforcement of certain things," Somasegar said. But DiMichillie described improvements to TFS as minor. TFS lags behind the competition in areas like testing, he said. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition costs $799 for new buyers and $549 to upgrade from the previous release. Team Foundation Server costs $2,799; upgrades cost $499.
You’ve watched the crappy bootleg version on YouTube, now watch the high quality official Cloverfield movie trailer. It’s a lion alive! (...) Comment on this now or read more at slashfilm.com.
In todays video, Primary Game Designer Craig Hubbard, takes some time to talk about the story in the game.
Beowulf was up 20% from Friday. The Zemeckis motion-capture epic headed for $30.07M Opening Weekend. Weekend estimates show Bee Movie at $15.4M, American Gangster at $13.6M; and Mr. (...) Comment on this now or read more at slashfilm.com.
Many electronic discovery tools exist, but there are questions about them, a group of e-discovery experts say.
 This video clip was taken during my language study trip to Mexico in April of 2006. I really had an awesome time in Mexico. I started my trip with three days in Mexico City where I got a crash course in this fascinating metropolis. Then I went to Cuernavaca where I studied Spanish at two different Spanish schools: the Ideal Language School and the Cetlalic Language School who use two very different concepts. I really had a chance to intimately get to know Cuernavaca, a beautiful colonial city. In addition I did some side trips to the silver city of Taxco and the magical and mysterious village of Tepoztlan. Mexico was a really interesting experience and I am looking forward to my next trip there.
I am a travel writer and on my website www.travelandtransitions.com you will find more than 600 articles about unconventional travel and cross-cultural connections. Also check out the books that I have written, you can find them at http://www.travelandtransitions.com/ebooks.html
Reinvented has dropped Keep It from its file organizational tool Together and has made it Leopard-only, adding a slew of new features in the process.
The day before the console's North American debut, the PS3's answer to Xbox Live Marketplace is up and running; demos for Resistance, Motorstorm downloadable.
The whitey winner gets a pair of round-trip tickets to Portland, OR, the whitest city in America. You'll also get put up in Ace Hotel, which is kind of like the Bowery Hotel of Portland. Yay! So what again do you have to do? This: 1. What is a French Cuff, as it pertains to denim? 2. What is your favorite Lil' Wayne lyric? 3. Fairfield or Greenwich, and why? Standard Contest Rules apply.
The video game market in the U.S. saw a healthy 18 percent expansion in October and remains on track for a record year. 
Bad news, buddy. From Phil Elverum's P.W. Elverum and Sun website: ATTENTION: ALL UPCOMING MOUNT EERIE CONCERTS ARE CANCELLED (due to a family emergency). VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY SORRY EVERYBODY. PLEASE DON'T WORRY. IT MUST BE THIS WAY. WE WILL SURVIVE IT AND THERE WILL BE MORE CONCERTS LATER. thanks for understanding We send our best wishes to everyone involved and hope it's not serious. Meanwhile, I've been listening to the awesome 10-inch picture disc that comes with the massive (...) - TOUR NEWS
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