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Download Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP

Update: Another interesting place to get you started: http://developer.windowsphone.com/windows-phone-7-series/

Here it is, download the CTP of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone.

Additionally, here are the release notes.

Or use this handy link to download the Offline Install ISO image file.

And to finish your day in style, have a look here for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Phone.

Labels: developer, download, free, Microsoft, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7

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  Posted by oVan on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | PermaLink | 0 comments

Windows Phone Developer Experience with Silverlight

Update: The official name is now: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

Building up towards MIX10, more news on the fresh approach towards Windows Phone 7 development trickles in.

Along the list of technologies to build the next generation of Windows Phone apps, you'll find these giants: .NET, Silverlight, XNA platform, Microsoft's developer tools, Web 2.0 standards.

In his post Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience, Charlie Kindel explains the why of the new platform for Windows Phones developers.

Labels: app, apps, developer, Express, Microsoft, MIX10, Phone, Series 7, Silverlight, store, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7

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  Posted by oVan on Friday, March 05, 2010 | PermaLink | 4 comments

Microsoft Visual Phone Developer Express 2010

Update: the new name revealed at MIX MIX10 by Scott Guthrie is Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

After the huge Windows Phones 7 Series announcement, a little voice in my head whispers that Microsoft expects huge amounts of developers to create new apps, with the help of the yet to be released Microsoft Visual Phone Developer Express 2010.

Keep watching this page and perhaps here for a free download.

Labels: app, apps, developer, Express, Microsoft, Phone, Series 7, store, Visual Studio 2010

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  Posted by oVan on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | PermaLink | 1 comments

IE Tester - Test your sites against IE8, IE7, IE6, and IE5.5

IETester is a free tool to test your websites against all major versions of Internet Explorer. It has the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP.

Download: IETester v0.2.3 (24Mb)

Labels: browser, CSS, developer, IE, IE6, IE7, IE8, Microsoft, Vista, Windows, Windows Vista, XP

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  Posted by oVan on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | PermaLink | 0 comments

Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Microsoft has released a new tool aimed at web developers: Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Although it’s still a beta, it’s already a one-stop shop to install all necessary tools, service packs and extensions, including IIS, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2008, Visual Web Developer 2008, all of the current IIS Extensions and more!

 

 
Once installed, this tool automatically discovers new additions and updates to the platform, keeping you up to date.

Additionally, Microsoft has launched a new website for web professionals (designers and developers): microsoft.com/web 

Go to: Microsoft Web Platform Installer site, or download wpilauncher.exe immediately.

Labels: .NET, 2008, asp.net, C#, developer, download, Express, install, installation, installer, Microsoft, Vista, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studion 2008, vs2005, vs2008, web development, webdev, Windows, Windows Vista

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  Posted by oVan on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 | PermaLink | 0 comments

IE Developer Toolbar 1.0 Final Released

Microsoft has released the final release (v1.0) of the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar.

For those of you who are not familiar with the IE Developer Toolbar, here's a bit of info:

Overview

The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:

• Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.


• Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.


• Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.


• View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.


• Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.


• Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.


• Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.


• Immediately resize the browser window to a new resolution.


• Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.


• Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align and measure objects on your pages.


• Find the style rules used to set specific style values on an element.


• View the formatted and syntax colored source of HTML and CSS.


• The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.

Although there aren't any major new features since beta 3, they've added some reliability fixes and polished the whole toolbar a bit.

Release Notes:

• If Internet Explorer is running while you install the Developer Toolbar,
  you must restart Internet Explorer before the Developer Toolbar will work properly.


• The Developer Toolbar icon may not be visible by default.  If you
  do not see it after restarting Internet Explorer, click the right-facing
  arrows at the end of the IE7 command bar to view all available toolbar
  buttons.


• Some menu items are unavailable (grayed out) when running Internet
  Explorer in Protected Mode on Windows Vista.  To use those options,
  temporarily turn off Protected Mode or right-click the Internet Explorer
  icon in the Programs menu and choose 'Run as administrator'.


• In IE6 or in IE7 with tabbed browsing off, using the validation links
  will navigate the current window to the validation page.  To launch the
  validation links in a new window, open the Tools menu, click Internet Options..., and uncheck "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts" in the Advanced tab, or use IE7 with tabbed browsing enabled.

» Download Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar 1.0

Labels: CSS, developer, DOM, html, IE, IE6, IE7, Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft, toolbar

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  Posted by oVan on Friday, May 11, 2007 | PermaLink | 0 comments