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Introducing the Facebook Azure Toolkit

An open source project hosted on CodePlex promises to streamline the development of Facebook applications that also leverage Microsoft’s Cloud platform. The Facebook Azure Toolkit is currently available for download under a Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), which is an open source license. Ahead of anything else, the toolkit is designed as a resource for developers that are looking to bridge their Facebook applications with Windows Azure. Its makers underlined the fact that the Toolkit should be used by devs that already know how to build Facebook apps, or are willing to learn on their own.

“The Facebook Azure toolkit provides the ability to rapidly develop Facebook applications that leverage Windows Azure to profit from all the benefits of the cloud with a solid framework based on best practices. Facebook applications hosted in Azure provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing platform for the smallest and largest of Facebook applications. Whether you have millions of users or just a few thousand, the Facebook Azure Toolkit helps you to build your app correctly so that if your app is virally successful, you won’t have to architect it again. You will just need to increase the number of instances you are using, and then you are done scaling,” revealed Christian Klasen, Microsoft senior business development manager.

In order to access the project, devs will need to be running the Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of Visual Studio 2010. According to the Toolkit’s description, it brings to the table the Facebook Developers Toolkit, the Ninject 2.0 for Dependency Injection, Asp.Net MVC 2, Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010), AutoMapper, Azure Toolkit – Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and SQl Server and automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure.

There are a number of tasks which all developers will need to complete in order to get their project up and running. “Set up a facebook developers account. Set up an iframe facebook application. Set up an Azure Account. Set up a database in Sql Azure. Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage,” the makers of Facebook Azure Toolkit instructed.

Visual Studio 2010 Premium Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Professional Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.

.NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.

SOURCE: Softopedia

March 24th, 2010 | Category: All, General | Leave a comment

Eclipse IDE Evolves into a First-Class Windows 7 Citizen

Microsoft is hard at work, making the next release (3.6) of the Eclipse Integrated Development Tool (IDE) a first-class citizen on Windows 7. In partnership with Tasktop Technologies, the Redmond company has been contributing code to Eclipse in an effort to tailor the IDE to Windows 7. In the video embedded at the bottom of this article, you will be able to see Vijay Rajagopalan, Microsoft principal architect, and Shawn Minto, from Tasktop Technologies, demoing the first results of the two companies’ collaboration on making Eclipse a first-class development platform for Windows 7. When it first announced its partnership with Tasktop Technologies, Microsoft indicated that the duo would deliver on the promise of Windows 7 and Eclipse Interoperability by mid-2010.

“Microsoft is providing funding, technical & architectural assistance and Tasktop is implementing and contributing code. The goal is to improve Eclipse to take advantage of new features in Windows 7. This will empower eclipse developers to be productive and have a compelling experience developing applications using Eclipse on Windows 7. For this first phase, we have been focusing on the user interface components to allow Eclipse developers to take advantage of the new user interface features offered by Windows 7, directly from the Eclipse IDE and from any desktop applications built on top of the Eclipse platform,” Rajagopalan stated.

Eclipse interoperability with Windows 7 has resulted in the evolution of the look and feel of the IDE on Microsoft’s latest Windows client. Integration involves support for the new Superbar (Taskbar), for JumpLists, and for Taskbar icon progress. According to Microsoft, the improvements are delivered at Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) level. Rajagopalan reveals that devs will be able to enjoy the enhancements not only in the Eclipse IDE, but also in all desktop applications created on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

Concomitantly with the Tasktop Technologies partnership in 2009, Microsoft also announced that it was working with France-based IT solutions provider Soyatec on related projects. Rajagopalan offered a heads-up on how their work moved forward. “Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse: we just released an updated version including many bug fixes and compatibility with the latest Windows Azure SDK (version 1.1). Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (eclipse4SL) for Mac and Windows: the next release is planned to this spring.”


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March 24th, 2010 | Category: All, General | Leave a comment

jQuery JavaScript Library 1.4.1 Included in VS2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2

Developers leveraging Microsoft’s development platform and tools have already been able to take advantage of the integration with jQuery JavaScript. If memory serves me correctly, at the end of 2008, Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Platform, announced that Microsoft would be shipping jQuery as an integral part of Visual Studio moving forward. Two years later, both Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2 included jQuery JavaScript Library 1.4.1. Of course, now, the promise from the software giant is that it will work to do even more, essentially to actively support jQuery JavaScript Library development.

“Guthrie announced Microsoft is taking a more active role participating in the open-source, community-driven development of the jQuery JavaScript Library,” stated Peter Galli, the Open Source Community Manager for Microsoft’s Platform Strategy Group. “Microsoft will now work in concert with the jQuery JavaScript Library team to accelerate the creation of new features that make creating rich-web applications on any platform faster and easier.”
According to Galli, the work that Microsoft plans to do is designed to make sure that developers will be able to simplify the building of rich, JavaScript based client-side Internet applications. As a lightweight open source JavaScript library, jQuery has become a sweetheart with devs in a relative short amount of time.
“Gforward, the company also plans to assist in the development of both standards-based and ASP.NET based jQuery Plugins aimed to simplify interoperability between the two platforms, and Microsoft will now help make the jQuery JavaScript Library a primary development option on Windows,” Galli added.
Microsoft’s alignment with the evolution of jQuery fits perfectly into the patterns of the open source model. In this regard, devs will be able to not only provide their input, but also modify the materials added to the jQuery JavaScript Library by the Redmond-based company.
Visual Studio 2010 Premium Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Professional Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.
.NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Released to Web (RTW) is available for download here.

SOURCE: Softopedia

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

March 18th, 2010, 12:00 GMT

March 24th, 2010 | Category: All, General | Leave a comment

Earth Hour 2010

Since the INDIA is going to have Earth Hour 2010  the green initiative on 27th March 2010 8:30 PM – 9:30PM,  i  would be pleadging my support to  the initiative by switching of all lights and electronic instruments between 8:30 PM – 9:30PM 27th March 2010.

earth hour 2010

Why don’t you also visit http://www.earthhour.inand show your support.

March 24th, 2010 | Category: All, General | Leave a comment

Migrating ASP.NET MVC 1.0 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM

Most of the organizations/developers who have developed/developing applications in ASP.NET MVC 1.0, would want a direct upgrade to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RTM. Right now microsoft has n’t given direct support to upgrade ASP.NET MVC 1.0 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 applications.

Previously i blog about a Custom Tool which helps in  converting ASP.NET MVC 1.0 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RC/beta, this tool was developed by Eilon Lipton

But after the release of he has recently released an new version of the tool, which helps us in Converting ASP.NET 1.0 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 hassle free, with out much head ache. For the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RTM project Converter, follow the link .

Of course you have to make some other changes after making upgrade to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RTM. It will just upgrade the project base to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RTM. Because your code you only knows. You have to make some necessary changes to your solution after upgrading to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RTM.  In ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RTM, if you were using JSON based data grids using jQuery,  you can see HTTP-GET has been restricted for JSON or AJAX calls. But with an Method attribute setting to tell the asp.net to allow such calls, are the way to solve this. So such changes you have to do it manually.

The tool does the upgrade of your project made in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 project structure.

Read more about this  tool in Eilon Lipton’s – ASP.NET MVC 1.0 to 2.0 Converter

March 22nd, 2010 | Category: All, General | Leave a comment

Book Review Introducing .NET 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010

Recently i was in a search for Silvelight 3.0 books in Hyderabad. So i went to KOTI, looking for the book.  I didn’t find a single store having Silverlight 3 books.  Why is that i don’t know. Silverlight 4.0 is near and i couldn’t find a silverlight 3.0 book in any bookshop. They are still selling of Silverlight 2.0 books.

But i am glad that i made visit searching for the Silvelight 4.0 book. Interestingly i found another book, which i never thought would be in KOTI.

The book is “Apress Publication Series – Introducing .NET 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 by Alex Mackey, Microsoft MVP”, which is a quite interesting book beginning to know “what is new with .NET 4.0 and Visual studio 2010″. Of course this books is mainly based on Visual Studio 2010 beta version. I believe it is mostly accurate to work with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate version.

If you want to know ” What is new with .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010″, this is the best book, you ever should read first.  Alex Mackey provided lots of information on the new features,  tools, shortcuts and  more interesting informative links to all resources we need to get to know Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 better.

The book is priced on Retail price of Rs. 329/- in INDIA, but in koti i got it for around 250-260. Which is a quite a good buy, considering the importance and availability of book.

Book Name : Introducing .NET 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010

Author  : Alex Mackey, MVP, Visual C#

Publisher: Apress

ISBN : 978-81-8489-548-3

Distributed in India By : Dream Tech Press

User Level : Intermediate / Advanced

Come on go on and buy it if you can afford it and get to know about .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 better.

March 21st, 2010 | Category: All, General | Leave a comment
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