Windows Splash Screens from 1.01 to Vista

April 13th, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

Here is a link to show you all the Splash Screens Microsoft Windows have used from its 1st version 1.01 to Vista.

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-61343-1.html

Pictorial History of Microsoft

April 10th, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

I found a link which shows the progression of Microsoft from 1994 till date.

http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2007/04/09/why-design-matters-a-pictorial-history-of-microsoft-com.aspx

10th Anniversary of Visual Studio

March 30th, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

Please read Somasegar’s blog where he talked about the past 10 years and how Visual Studio has evolved.
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/03/26/visual-studio-turns-10.aspx

Correct version of March 2007 CTP of Orcas

March 7th, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

If you have faced problem and getting CRC failed error while extracting March 2007 Orcas CTP .rar files, then you must be following this link. Which has been published on 28-Feb-07 contains 7 .rar files.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=281FCB3D-5E79-4126-B4C0-8DB6332DE26E&displaylang=en>

You must download corrcet version from this link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B533619A-0008-4DD6-9ED1-47D482683C78&displaylang=en date published 27-Feb-07 contains 9 .rar files and it will extract .vhd successfully.

 

ORCAS – March 2007 CTP Released

March 2nd, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

Orcas March 2007 CTP is available.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B533619A-0008-4DD6-9ED1-47D482683C78&displaylang=en

Grava – New Microsoft Development Tool

February 3rd, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

Microsoft is developing a new suite of tools (Grava) that will allow developers and publishers of educational software, as well as educators themselves, to create their own instructional programs easily and intuitively.

Grava ScreenShots

To be notified when Grava CTP is released

TR Work Published

January 25th, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

I have done Technical Review for Apress Inc’s book on
C# 2005 Databases.
You can read about me on “About the Technical Reviewer” page in the printed version of the book.

Visual Studio 2005 SP1

January 19th, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

398 BUGS has been fixed in the form of SP1 of VS 2005.

Bugs Fixed in Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1

ORCAS – January 2007 CTP

January 15th, 2007 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

January CTP of ORCAS comes with the Virtual PC images,
Download and use them

If you are a LINQ aspirant then here is an e-Book from Apress which I have technically reviewed for Apress Inc.
LINQ for Visual C# 2005

Google Code Search

December 4th, 2006 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Visual Studio - (0 Comments)

Google has launched a facility for developers to search for code segments.
Google Code Search

Cool isn’t it !!!!