1st European Silverlight Challenge

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INETA Europe in collaboration with Microsoft organized a competition called European Silverlight Challenge, organized on country based, with the winners from each country participating in the European final. It is based on the development of a web component or application using Silverlight for its user interface and with the only condition that it to be … Read more

Release of Visual Studio 2008

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Microsoft announced yesterday that it released VS 2008 to manufacturing. For now, it is only available for MSDN subscribers. The official public release will happen on February 27, 2008 at Los Angeles. You can have an overview of the product here. You can read more about the product on the home page.

Create a font with the desired size

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Let’s asume you want to change the font of a window\control and for the sake of simplicity let’s consider an MFC dialog application. In that case, there are several steps you should follow: declare a CFont variable in the dialog class create the font in OnInitDialog (using CreateFont) set the font to the control (using … Read more

Launch of Visual Studio 2008

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A couple of days ago, Somasegar has announced that Microsoft is on track to release Visual Studio 2008 before the end of November 2007. On the other hand, the marketing release will take place on Februarie 27, 2008 in Los Angeles, along with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. You can read the announcement on … Read more

F# integrated in Visual Studio

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One week ago, Somasegar (Corporate VP for the Microsoft Developer Division) wrote on his blog that Microsoft will integrate F# (a functional language) in Visual Studio. We will be partnering with Don Syme and others in Microsoft Research to fully integrate the F# language into Visual Studio and continue innovating and evolving F#. In my … Read more

RO: Concursul Gadget 2007 Romania

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In acest sezon de toamna-iarna, Microsoft Romania a pregatit un concurs de gadget-uri pentru Windows Live sau sidebar-ul din Windows Vista. Castigatorilor primelor trei locuri vor primi un televizor LCD Sony Bravia, o consola XBox 360 si respectiv un telefon HTC Touch. Inscrierile se pot face pana pe 31 octombrie, iar votul intre 1 si … Read more

Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

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Scott Guthrie announced today that Microsoft will release (under the Microsoft Reference License) the source code for the .NET Framework libraries, including: .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc) ASP.NET (System.Web) Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms) ADO.NET (System.Data) XML (System.Xml) WPF (System.Windows) More than that, Visual Studio 2008 will provide … Read more

RO: Bunatatile din arca Microsoft

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In toamna aceasta Microsoft va distribui 100.000 de exemplare din Academic Resource Kit (sau simplu ARK), un DVD continand o colectie de instrumente educationale gratis. Aceste instrumente sunt disponibile pentru descarcare gratis si pe site-ul Microsoft, dar astfel sunt disponibile si celor carora le este mai greu sa le obtina online. DVD-ul contine urmatoarele instrumente: … Read more