On Wednesday, Microsoft rolled out the community technology preview of Project Roslyn, a new type of compiler which was first debuted at BUILD earlier this year, the company executive overseeing the C# programming language announced.

"This project is about revising what compilers do," said Anders Hejlsberg in a talk at Microsoft's Build conference. "[It] is about opening the compiler and making all that information available so [the developer] can harness all of this knowledge," he said.

Based on the Mono Project, Roslyn is designed to be a more open compiler that allows developers access and utilize the data that it is generating on the Visual Basic and C# code it is compiling. It resembles a model developed by Miguel de Icaza's Mono Project, in which the information the compiler generates about a program can be reused as a library.

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IPhone Games Development

With extensive experience, knowledge and skills, attention to detail and a passion for creating and playing games, Zatun knows exactly what gamers love as a guide for its iPhone Games Development service. The iPhone features cutting edge technology, pushing the boundaries of telecommunications and extending its features to include a variety of functions. Development of iPhone game app is one of the hottest trends to have appeared in recent times, and the company's prowess in creating games and apps allow it to go beyond the trend. With continuous advancement come greater challenges and greater demands from its user base including gamers, and the iPhone games development team is up to the task of giving more than gaming satisfaction.

Game Developers Understand iPhone Gamer Needs

Fans of iPhone games online and offline have specific needs as a result of the feature set of various versions and models such as the iPhone 3G. Examples such as multi-touch monitor, motion and position sensors, connectivity options, and others are carefully studied by the Research and Development and iPhone game development teams in order to find out what else could be done to provide a better user experience. The company ensures that the iPhone games app it develops would fully utilize any iPhone model's capabilities, allowing its users to have novel gaming experiences. As the game developers make use of the iPhone games app themselves, they understand what needs to be done and what needs to be improved for gaming to go to higher levels, whether they be iPhone games online, iPhone games online, a 3G iPhone game and others.

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This post aims at explaining the component model proposed by Microsoft, namely, Component Object Model (COM). This technology of Operating Systems enables software components to communicate with each other. The component model evolved from clipboards, which evolved to DDE. OLE 2.0 removed the defects in DDE and later OLE evolved into COM. To enable communication between components in a distributed environment, DCOM was proposed.

The technology proposed by Microsoft to support distributed commerce application is called as Microsoft Destributed Component Architecture (MDCA). MDCA lays out the rules governing software components and their usage in complex commerce system. MDCA uses distributed COM (DCOM) technology.

Microsoft provides COM interfaces for many Windows application programming interfaces such as Direct Show, Media Foundation, Packaging API, Windows Animation Manager, Windows Portable Devices, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD).

COM is used in applications such as the Microsoft Office Family of products. For example COM OLE technology allows Word documents to dynamically link to data in Excel spreadsheets and COM Automation allows users to build scripts in their applications to perform repetitive tasks or control one application from another.

Evolution of DCOM

Initially, clipboard was used as a fundamental method of sharing data between applications on Windows. By using clipboards, the user can copy data from the data provider application onto the data consumer application. Read the rest of this entry »

ANDROID MOBILE GAMES

The world of gaming is on a high. Various new applications are entering the scene and making the entire experience of gaming a highly enriching one. The recent development in the segment is android games. These android mobile games have caught the fancy of the users because of the easy game play and high standard graphics. Before we know more about these games for androids and discuss about the nuances of the industry and the development of the games, let us first understand what an android is.

ANDROIDS- THE PLATFORM FOR ALL ANDROID GAMES APPS

Basically an operating system for the mobile, this platform was developed by Android Inc., justifying its name. However, with the gradual passage of time; the company was taken over by Google. This is the reason why a lot of android games are still called Google android games and Google android games apps. Recently, however, many members of the mobile industry have joined the group to be working on and developing the android projects.

ANDROID GAMES STANDARDS

The standards of the mobile android games have been touching new highs. Many game developers, from various parts of the world, have understood the technology and the requirement of the platform and have developed games accordingly.

These new standards mean that there is very slight difference between the android gaming experience and the experience that one gets while one is playing on more professional gaming platforms, including GAME PCs and consoles. The graphics of the game, the game play as also the excitement that these games manage to create are on the same plinth as many of the other games being played on GAME PCs and consoles. Read the rest of this entry »

Called as the new phenomenon in the information technology industry, Ipad is becoming a craze among the youth as well as others who understand IT equipments and know the worth that this gadget carries in today’s world. Developed by Apple in the year 2010, this equipment can work as a replacement to a laptop as well as a mobile phone. It is a tablet slightly bigger in size than the mobile phone and much smaller than the size of the laptop. It can play major applications, including those requiring the audio visual medium like books, music, games and movies among others. Its increasing popularity has created a new field called IPAD development.

IPAD APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

The first component of Ipad development is that of applications which could run on Ipad. One could, more or less, understand that all the applications which could run on Iphone can be run on this gadget. Moreover, Ipad app development could include the process of innovation and development of newer applications, which are created and can run solely on Ipad.

Now, whether you have a creative disposition or you are looking for something more regular, you can have everything through the Ipad applications. Thus, you could sketch images, make designs, update your blogs or even use other creative applications to make your Ipad work brilliantly for you, the power that that the recent expertise with IPAD development lends to you.

IPAD APPLICATION DEVELOPER

The process of Ipad application development requires the Ipad application developer to be abreast with the recent technology as also the requirements of the users. Experiences of past IPAD app development projects could be a good starting point for the Ipad application developer to know what the users in the market are looking for. Once these requirements are understood, by the Ipad application developer, one could go ahead with one’s IPAD Development project and develop an application which suits the requirements of the users today, thus, escalating its chances of being a successful IPAD Development venture. Read the rest of this entry »

The software giant Microsoft is offering free access to Azure for developers to work on cloud applications for the platform.

The company is giving away 750 hours of Windows Azure Extra Small Compute instance use, 25 hours of Small Compute instance, 500MB of storage, 10,000 storage transactions per month, 100,000 access control transactions and two service bus connections in an offer lasting until June.

"It’s no secret that the cloud is opening up new opportunities for developers to create never-before-seen application experiences, improve existing applications and generate new revenue streams," said a Microsoft Azure team blog. "This extended free trial will allow developers to try out the Windows Azure platform without the need for up-front investment costs."

Microsoft also is providing users with a 1GB Web Edition of the SQL Azure Database, as well as free data transfers—500MB in and 500MB out per month. Read the rest of this entry »

WaveMaker is an open and easy-to-use web development platform. With WaveMaker's visual, drag and drop tools, any developer can build Java applications with minimal learning curve.

WaveMaker provides a unique solution for migrating Oracle Forms developers and applications to Java. WaveMaker's visual tools are easy for Oracle Forms developers to use, while generating standard Java applications.

Besides, You can also replace Microsoft Access and .Net with WaveMaker. It flattens the learning curve for moving from proprietary platforms like Microsoft Access to open Java. Enterprises are increasingly moving from proprietary platforms like Microsoft .NET to open Java platforms. Yet training Microsoft .NET developers to use complex Java tools can be time consuming and costly.

WaveMaker provides a unique solution for migrating Microsoft .NET developers and applications to open Java standards. It is easy for Visual Studio developers to use, while generating standard Java code that runs in any Java server. WaveMaker offers an optimal solution for migrating Microsoft .NET applications to use the latest Web 2.0 and Java technologies.

If you are interested in the Enterprise edition of WaveMaker and would like to get more detailed information about it, you can visit the official page by registering to their member, the users can enjoy a vivid Evaluator's Guide. In addition to this, As a WaveMaker developer, a professional community is also available at their official website.

Microsoft released Silverlight 4.0.50401.0, the formal edition of Silverlight 4. This latest version of Silverlight delivers hundreds of features and controls that, when combined with the continued innovation in Microsoft's world-class tools for designers and developers — Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend – present the leading edge in rapid, powerful application development. With printing support, rich reporting and charting, and integration with back-end systems and server products including Microsoft SharePoint, Silverlight is ready for business.

New Features for Application Developers
* Comprehensive printing support enabling hardcopy reports and documents as well as a virtual print view, independent of screen content.
* A full set of forms controls with over 60 customizable, styleable components. New controls include RichTextbox with hyperlinks, images and editing and Masked textbox for complex field validation. Enhanced controls include DataGrid with sortable/resizeable columns and copy/paste rows.
* WCF RIA Services introduces enterprise class networking and data access for building n-tier applications including transactions, paging of data, WCF and HTTP enhancements.
* Localization enhancements with Bi-Directional text, Right-to-Left support and complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew and 31 new languages including Vietnamese and Indic support. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has released the formal version of .NET Framework 4.0. The .NET Framework is Microsoft's comprehensive and consistent programming model for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and the ability to model a range of business processes.

The .NET Framework 4 works side by side with older Framework versions. Applications that are based on earlier versions of the Framework will continue to run on the version targeted by default.

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 is available to download now. It provides a long list of new features and improvements, pertaining to areas like performance, memory, Windows 7 features, and much more. You can check the whole list here

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We all know that UltraEdit is a powerful text and code editor, we can replace our Notepad with UltraEdit and edit almost anything we like. The menu bar of UltraEdit always makes us dazzling. In fact, we can do many things with right menu, It is very convenient and easy.

1.Delete the space at the end of the line
When we are editing text document or our codes, we always need to do that. Certainly we can do that with Replace function, and write a regular expression. It is so boring, isn't it? We can do that only with mouse.

Locate your cursor at the end of the line, right click it and select "Format", then select "Trim Trailing Spaces". The UltraEdit will delete all the spaces at the end of this line.

2. Copy the path of this file you are editing
If you want to have the path of the file you are editing, you don't need to find the file in the folder and right click it to see its path, just right click in the UltraEdit and select "Copy File Path/Name". Read the rest of this entry »