Even more great news from Microsoft:
“XNA Game Studio Express is a new offering, targeted at students and hobbyists for game development. XNA Game Studio is based on Visual C# Express 2005 and lets developers target both Windows and Xbox 360. XNA Game Studio Express contains the following:
- The XNA Framework, a set of managed code development libraries which will allow game developers to be more productive when creating games for Windows and the Xbox 360.
- The XNA Framework Content Pipeline which is a set of tools that allow developers to more easily incorporate 3D content into their games.
- XNA Game Studio Express also contains a full set of documentation, how-to’s and starter-kits that demonstrate how best to utilize the content pipeline and XNA Framework. “
Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/faq/
Well that’s news! I mainly used my Mac for blogging. But there’s a new application from Microsofts Windows Live Team that is indeed a strong competitor.
It comes with Spell Checking, WYSIWYG and much more… just what I’ve waited for…
You can grab your copy from here.
Source: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/
“MSDN Solve ist die Lösung für alle Entwickler, die praxis-orientierte Hilfestellungen bei typischen Programmier-Herausforderungen suchen. MSDN Solve liefert verständliche Antworten auf immer wiederkehrende Fragen aus dem IT-Alltag und sorgt dafür, dass Sie Stolperfallen in Software-Projekten künftig leicht umschiffen.”
Source: http://www.msdn-solve.de/
Hurray, the stream of good news continues:
“MSDN Library provides access to essential programming information, including technical white papers, software development kits and code samples necessary to develop web services and applications. This is an updated version of the MSDN Library for Visual Studio® 2005.”
Source: MSDN Library May 2006 Download
the UK Academic Team Blog writes:
“The big kahuna – a source-code release of the Windows Kernel. The WRK is useful in design projects that let your students explore OS principles using the Windows kernel sources, the WRK enables advanced teaching and research by facilitating building experiments and projects based on modifying the Windows kernel, as well as by promoting better understanding of the Windows architecture and implementation.”
More info on that when I have more info on that…
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukacademia/archive/2006/07/31/684325.aspx
Once again an very interesting piece of software made it to the Shared Source family.
“The Device Emulator is a software simulation of a CPU and motherboard, that runs the Windows CE and Windows Mobile operating systems. The emulator is a single Windows .EXE file that contains:
- A CPU emulator that executes the ARM instruction set by JIT-compiling to x86
- An MMU emulator to support virtual memory and page protection
- A motherboard emulator that contains emulated RAM and NOR flash memory
- A collection of peripheral devices attached to the motherboard: serial ports, LCD controller, touchscreen, keyboard, interrupt controller, programmable timers, real-time-clock, network cards, audio, etc.
- A “DMA” interface which allows a Win32 application running outside the emulator to communicate with a WinCE application running inside the emulator, using a simple socket-like programming model. “
Source 1: Device Emulator Sourcecode Download
Source 2: License
As of this weekend the beta version of ActiveSync 4.2 is available for download.
“Microsoft ActiveSync provides a great synchronization experience with Windows powered PCs and Microsoft Outlook right out of the box. ActiveSync acts as the gateway between your Windows powered PC and Windows Mobile powered device, enabling the transfer of Outlook information, Office documents, pictures, music, videos and applications from your desktop to your device. In addition to synchronizing with a desktop PC, ActiveSync can synchronize directly with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 so that you can keep your e-mail, Calendar, Notes, and Contacts updated wirelessly when you’re away from your PC.”
No change-log so far. So please try for yourself on a non-production machine with a non-production Windows Mobile device. Thank you.
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/downloads/activesync42.mspx
“Microsoft is challenging developers worldwide to create conversational robots, or BOTs, for MSN® Messenger and Windows Live™ Messenger. The most original, useful robots collect $40,000 in total prizes.”
“Robots or “BOTs”, are software programs that you can add to MSN® Messenger and Windows Live™ Messenger. If you add a robot to your contact list, it can chat, give you customer service support, perform searches, make suggestions, play games and more.”
Source: http://www.robotinvaders.com/main/Default.aspx
We invite you to be among the first to experience the clarity that Windows Vista can bring to your world. The Windows Vista Customer Preview Program makes a pre-release edition of Windows Vista Ultimate broadly available to the public for the first time.
It’s available for public download and testing now. You can grab your bits here and here.
This version now is time-limited:
“Windows Vista Beta 2 (and RC1) is time-limited, pre-release software that will expire on June 1, 2007.”
You can also order Beta 2 and RC1 DVD kits there.
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx
As this is a germany-only-offer I’ll do it in german:
“Die Entscheidung ist gefallen! Die überwältigende Anzahl von 6477 Teilnehmern hat es der Jury sehr schwer gemacht. Dennoch stehen die deutschen Vertreter für das Weltfinale in Indien jetzt fest. Die vielen tollen Ideen und Euer super Engagement möchten wir mit Euch gebührend feiern – denn eine Party unter Palmen bei 25° Lufttemperatur und 31° Wassertemperatur geht auch in Deutschland. Wir laden Dich hiermit herzlich zur Imagine Cup Beach Party am 30. Mai 2006 in das Tropical Island Resort nach Brandenburg ein.
360 m lang, 210 m breit und 107 m hoch, eine Grundfläche von 6,6 Hektar mit 7000 Kubikmetern Wasser und über 20.000 tropischen Pflanzen, dies ist genau der richtige Ort für einen würdigen Abschluss des Imagine Cup 2006 in Deutschland.
Deck-Chair-Coding, karibischer Flair, Beachparty in der größten freitragenden Halle der Welt, und das alles kostenlos, … lass Dich überraschen!“
Es sind noch ca. 50 Plätze für Studenten frei. Also los und anmelden! Die Vergabe findet nach dem First-Come-First-Serve Prinzip statt.
Hier geht es zur Anmeldung.
Hier auch ein kurzer Blick auf die Agenda:
Source 1: Imagine Cup Beachparty 2006
Source 2: Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006
I just installed Vista on two of my machines…. And WOW! That’s really going to flash everyone who will be using it in the future…
More to come soon.
I am at the Microsoft Studentpartner Summit 2006 in Duesseldorf-Mettmann at the moment. And of course I made some panoramic views:
“The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is the ECMA standard that describes the core of the .NET Framework world. The Shared Source CLI is a compressed archive of the source code to a working implementation of the ECMA CLI and the ECMA C# language specification.
The current release builds and runs on Windows XP only. It is released under a Shared Source initiative. It is released under a shared source initiative. Please see the accompanying license.
The Shared Source CLI goes beyond the printed specification of the ECMA standards, providing a working implementation for CLI developers to explore and understand. It will be of interest to academics and researchers wishing to teach and explore modern programming language concepts, and to .NET developers interested in how the technology works.”
Source: Shared Source CLI 2.0 download
I don’t know why but I am in movie-making-mood. So I did another movie showing some of the features of Windows Live…:
click to view
Today is all about GUI 
So it’s the perfect time to point you to a gallery that shows the brand new UI of Office 2007 Beta 1.
yes, this is word…
I really do like the new interface – I am using it for some builds now and it’s in the first place not what you would expect from Microsoft. It’s designed and features high usability… and when you will start using it you will acclimate really fast like I did.
Source: Jensen Harris
Oh yeah. It was time to replace the worn out battery of my notebook (HP compaq nc8000) and replace it with a shiny new one. And since I want as much wireless time as possible I ordered a new multibay battery with it. Everything arrived today and: god is that awesome!
My nc8000 now actually does the 10 hour long run with the two batteries fully loaded…hurray!
That was a delicious and even more entertaining dinner…
matie “housewives kind”
betroots soup – baked salmon trout-bread dumplings
fillet of oval – tuna risotto
White chocolate parfait – sweet olive litchi-espuma
yeah, things have to be discussed…
my team and I wish you a binary christmas…
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