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 Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Codename Nukeball Tech Preview 1
We at Nukeation have been working on a Visual Studio tool Codename Nukeball which is a Dynamic Rapid UI Development Tool. It helps you create parts (or whole) of UI in Windows Forms with a single click. We have been working on this for more than a year. Nukeball seamlessly converts UI code from one .NET language to another. Dax has posted a live demo of what Codename: Nukeball can do. Have a look at it. More information is also available on this blog post. Keep visiting Dax's Blog for more info on Nukeball.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Microsoft Unveils Silverlight
 Microsoft unveils Silverlight (previously called Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere ( WPF/E)). It’s a new cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the web. Silverlight offers consistent experiences to both Macintosh and Windows users on a variety of browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Leading media companies and solution providers have announced support for silverlight including Akamai Technologies, Brighcove, Eyeblaster, Limelight Networks, Major League Baseball, NaviSite Inc., Netflix, Pinnacle Systems Inc., Rhozet Corp., Skinkers, Sonic Solutions, Tarari Inc., Telestream Inc. and Winnov. All have indicated plans to deliver Silverlight-based experiences for their viewers and customers.
Microsoft Expands Reach of .NET FrameworkBased on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Silverlight enables developers and designers to easily use existing skills and tools to deliver media experiences and RIAs for the Web with role-specific tools: for designers, Microsoft Expression® Studio, and for developers, Visual Studio®. New tool and server investments for media professionals include the following: • Expression Media Encoder. Microsoft Expression Media Encoder, which will be a feature of Microsoft Expression Media, enables rapid import, compression and Web publishing of digital video imported from a variety of popular formats, including AVI and QuickTime, into WMV. Capable of running on the desktop or Windows Server®, Expression Media Encoder is a template-driven system that integrates seamlessly into existing Web publishing workflows for both live and on-demand content delivery. Expression Media Encoder will be a free download for customers of Expression Media when it is shipped later this year. • Hardware-accelerated video publishing. When paired with a Tarari Encoder Accelerator, Expression Media Encoder reduces encode times by up to 15 times over software alone, a significant capabilities and cost advantage for publishing Web video today. • Even greater scalability with Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn.” Building on the industry-leading streaming and Web server platform, Windows Server “Longhorn” will enable customers to experience up to twice the scalability on the same hardware when compared with Windows Server 2003. Also being announced today is the Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7) Media Pack, which adds new cost-saving features such as bit-rate throttling and other advanced features designed to help further reduce the cost of media distribution. The IIS7 Media Pack will be a free download for customers of Windows Server “Longhorn” when it ships. Tim Sneath in his article shares with us top ten list of reasons why you might want to use Silverlight. .
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
WPF Vs Apollo/Flex
  I have observed that in this IT field many people like to criticise Microsoft. People hate Microsoft, as if its their hobby. They will use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Suite and most the the Microsoft products but then also keep criticizing it.
Lets look back at history. Windows has become a standard and majority of people use it. one myth that is common among people is that "Apple OS is good for designers". I do not know whats the reason behind this myth but I find it really wierd when Apple is considered good for designers. Windows platform has much more tools than any other platform for designers. With emerging technologies like WPF Windows is the best platform for designing and development.
 Linux desktop have copied each and every feature of Windows and the open source community keep on copying Microsoft Office Suite in the name of Open Office. Open Office is such a wierd product that most of the time you will use it hoping that it doesn't crash. I am now wondering how open source community will copy Office 2007. But I am sure there are many copy cats who can easily do it.
Now a days people are creating hype about Apollo and Flex. When I had a look at what these two products are, I found that Apollo and Flex is just the replica of .NET Framework. They are talking so loud about Flash and Flex. Guys Flash is just an animation software which was made with the intention of being a preloader. It cannot take place of programming Language. Apollo people are giving counts of Apollo runtime downloads. Dot NET Framework is downloaded four times more than their Apollo runtime.
WPF technology and .NET Framework 3.0 brings in the years of experience of Microsoft in programming field. WPF is really a revolution. The combination of WPF/Expression Suite with the programming capabilities of Visual Studio makes it the best Programming Suite ever available.
One day I was just trying to open a file in Flash, would you believe Actionscript is such a wierd language that simple task like writing/reading file looks almost difficult, infact I don't count any of the Adobe's new product as programming language products, they are only desperate ways of competing with Microsoft.
Let this year of 2007 come to an end then we will see where this Apollo and Flex stand :D
I would like to apologize for my comments. Since I am passionate about some technology doesn't mean I should have written what I have.
I know I have hurt a lot of people and I sincerely apologize for it.
I made a mistake and I wish that I wasn't sober while writing that. I will do my best to learn from it.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Microsoft® .NET™ Framework 3.0
 In the pre-release version .NET Framework 3.0 was called WinFX. It is the new managed-code programming model for windows. It combines the power of .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have a better user experience, seamless communication across technology boundaries and support for a wide range of business processes. It is a integral part of Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" operating systems, it is also available for Windows Xp in the Service Pack2 and in Service Pack1 of Windows Server 2003.
The .NET Framework 3.0 adds new technologies to the .NET Framework 2.0 which makes the .NET Framework 3.0 a superset of the .NET Framework 2.0. This new version of the .NET Framework is designed to provide backward compatiblity with the previous version.
.NET Framework 3.0 consists of these major components:Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) formerly codenamed " Avalon" - It is a new user interface subsystem and API based on XML and vector graphics, which uses 3D graphics hardware and Direct3D technologies. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) formerly codenamed " Indigo" - It is a service-oriented messaging system which allows programs to interoperate locally or remotely similar to web services. Windows CardSpace formerly codenamed " InfoCard" - It is a software component which securely stores a person's digital identities and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction for eg. logging in to a website. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Installing and Detecting .NET Framework 3.0To install .NET Framework 3.0, you must have one of the following operating systems installed : - Microsoft Windows Xp Home or Xp Home Professional with Service Pack 2 or later.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family with Service Pack 1 or later.Minimum hardware requirement to install .NET Framework 3.0 is Pentium 400 MHz with 96 MB RAM but recommended is Pentium 1 GHz or higher with 256 MB RAM.
To check if .NET Framework 3.0 is installed you can look for this specific registry key in the Registry
For .NET Framework 3.0"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.0\Setup" the DWORD value of this key would be "1".
Similarly to check if version 2 is installed or not you can check for following registry entry
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v2.0.50727" the DWORD value of this also would be "1".
You can Click Here for detecting .NET Framework 3.0 on your system using internet explorer. You can click here to download .NET Framework 3.0 from MSDN.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Microsoft® .NET™ Framework
 Microsoft® .NET™ Framework provides a large structure of pre-coded solutions to common program requirements and also manages the execution of the programs which are specifically written for this framework. Runtime required to run applications written in .NET is called Common Language Runtime(CLR).
The main aim of the framework is to make the task of developing applications easier at the same time ensure that the applications work properly with full security.
Programmer through the years have faced many challenges like depending on one programming language which restricted them from using all the good features of different languages and tools. Common framework assures the availability of framework features to all applications written in any languages of that framework, this meant programmer can choose any .NET language but he/she could access all the features of .NET, hence it reduces the complexity and the restrictions of communication between programs even if it is written in different .NET language. Visual Basic and C# support .NET Framework.
 Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is the most important part of .NET framework. The implementation of CLI is called the Common Language Runtime (CLR). In the chart on the left you can see how CLI works.
Development of .NET Framework started in late 90s and the orginial name was the Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS). In late 2000 the first beta version of .NET 1.0 was released.
In this period of six years we have seen different versions of .Net which are as follows :
.NET Framework 1.0,
.Net Framework 1.1,
.NET Framework 2.0
and the latest being .NET 3.0 Framework.
Major changes brought after the release of .Net 1.0 were Built in support for ODBC, earlier it was available as an add-on to .NET 1.0, Built in support for mobile ASP.Net controls, Support for Internet Protocol Version 6. .NET Framework 2.0 was released with Visual Studio .NET 2005. The latest in the framework is .NET Framework 3.0 formely called WinFX.
My next article will contain details about this .NET Framework 3.0 and the way it changes how we design and use applications.
Any comments on the article or on the whole blog are welcome.
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