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Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2010 across globe on April 12 2010

Its always a trend with Microsoft to ease the development process and minimize the effort in coding and hence, whenever a new version of visual studio is released some features will get added to simplify the development process.Now its the turn of Visual studio 2010 to achieve the goals of Microsoft.Various new tools are released in VS 2010 for prototyping, modeling, and designing applications.

And Now I am sure you will definitely be very much anxious to know more about visual studio 2010 and its release.

Launch of Visual Studio 2010 is going to happen on April 12 2010.Collection of products getting released in Visual studio 2010.Some of the products are Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate,Premium,Professional,Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger,Visual Studio Extensibility,Visual Studio 2010 SDK,Visual Studio 2010 Visualization & Modeling SDK,Visual Studio Test Professional,
Visual Studio Agents,Visual Studio Team Foundation Server,Visual Studio Lab Management,.NET Framework,
.NET Framework 4,Windows Azure Tools,
Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio

Find below some of the key features in Visual Studio 2010

Enhancements to Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF),Windows Workflow Foundation(WWF) and Windows Communication Foundation(WCF)

Major change in Silverlight is now there can be some interaction happening directly between silverlight and ADO.net.

A new Programming language Visual F# which enables testing to be done effectively and even before product code development test scenarios will be written.

Improved Microsoft office development functionality in VS 2010

Windows Azure and Windows Azure tools for cloud computing

Effective parallel computing and various libraries added for the same

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Microsoft Surface – A quick review

First prerequisite to experience Microsoft Surface is that your system should have the latest version of Silverlight.Now we can understand the importance of Silverlight as it is going to form a major part in almost all the microsoft future releases.
Microsoft surface is not just the touch computer its going to be a “Multi touch” computer which is really an amazing feature.We can use almost all our fingers while we operate on Microsoft surface.
Its has a 30 inch touch screen which also allows multiple users to interact with the system at the same time.It also has the capability to interact with physical objects like mobiles when placed on the screen.

All the Base work of Microsoft surface lies with the cameras and Image recognition system.
Microsoft has given various tools for the developers to build application on microsoft surface.But before all that one should have a sound knowledge in WCF,WPF and silverlight concepts

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Windows 7 and the crashing Google Talk

The first problem I have discovered after  upgrading to Windows 7 (32 bit Ultimate ) is with the simplest of software’s – Google Talk. Google Talk has crashed 4-5 times in last few days and I have reinstalled it three times, finally dumping the stable version of Google Talk and installing the Google Talk Labs Edition.Ever since I upgraded to Windows 7, I found the typing in Google Talk was very slow, ie the program was not responding as slick as it should.

When I tried to Google for any possible solutions, I found more complaints than answers many users have mentioned Google Talk either slowing down or crashing. Some users have tried running the program in compatibility mode of Windows XP SP3 or Windows VISTA SP2, I tried both options but unsuccessful in both attempts.

One more problem I noticed is whenever the Google Talk was opened in Gmail window, it would crash the Adobe Shockwave player (11.5.1.601). I believe Google is responsible for both these problems.

So expect a newer version of Google Talk for Windows 7 and for time being try the Google Talk Labs Edition.

Read the initial review on Windows 7 here