What is Microsoft Visual Studio Team System? Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is a platform for productive, integrated, and extensible software development life-cycle tools that helps software teams by improving communication and collaboration throughout the software development process. Visual Studio Team System Editions: Provides links to topics discussing an extensible team collaboration server that provides work item tracking, source control, reporting, and process guidance. Provides links to topics discussing a set of integrated application design tools for service-oriented development. Provides links to topics discussing code quality and performance tools that enable teams to build reliable, mission-critical services and applications. Provides links to topics discussing advanced load testing tools that enable teams to verify the performance of applications before deployment. Provides links to topics discussing tools that enable teams to efficiently develop database applications, including working in isolated development environments, managing schema updates, and sharing changes through source control. Does this include Visual Studio 2008? Any of the Visual Studio Team System editions builds upon the feature set in Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Any of the features that are included in VS 2008 Pro are something you also get in any of the VS Team System editions. |
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Visual Studio Team System
Saturday, September 5, 2009
A look at what’s Silverlight
What is Microsoft Silverlight?
Silverlight is a lightweight plugin that allows you to watch video content in your browser in much the same way as Adobe Flash does on sites like YouTube. It works with most major browsers including Firefox, Safari and Chrome and plays WMV, WMA and MP3 content. Although there is no prompt to restart the browser after installation, I recommend you do so as the first Silverlight content I accessed after installation simply crashed Firefox.
What is new in the last Version of Silverlight V3.0?
Silverlight 3.0 has recently been released as an attempt to bridge the ever increasing chasm although it’s developers rather than end-users who will notice the most new innovations.
Silverlight 3 finally supports AAC audio decoding as well as hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding which were big omissions in the previous release. Microsoft have also finally decided to open up the “native multimedia pipeline” so that other formats can be supported if the codecs are installed. Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 still maintains the ability to stream high resolution video and supports HD quality videos.
Does Silver-light has some opponents?
Although Microsoft’s Silverlight was originally conceived as a competitor to Adobe Flash, it now finds itself competing with Abobe’s web 2.0 platform, Adobe Air. The harsh truth is however, only 2 years on from its original release and Silverlight has already fallen woefully behind Adobe Air. In typical Microsoft style, the software giant surely missed the boat by aiming at a competitor for Adobe Flash when the web world was already looking towards interactive Web 2.0 platforms such as Adobe Air. It says a lot that the New York Times recently dumped Silverlight for Adobe Air to re-launch their Times Reader application.
Finally, How to start?
If you want to create content for Silverlight, you’ll need Expression Studio and Visual Studio.
Animators are also now far better supported with “Perspective 3D” which enables transformation of 2D elements to 3D.
Silverlight is a lightweight plugin that allows you to watch video content in your browser in much the same way as Adobe Flash does on sites like YouTube. It works with most major browsers including Firefox, Safari and Chrome and plays WMV, WMA and MP3 content. Although there is no prompt to restart the browser after installation, I recommend you do so as the first Silverlight content I accessed after installation simply crashed Firefox.
What is new in the last Version of Silverlight V3.0?
Silverlight 3.0 has recently been released as an attempt to bridge the ever increasing chasm although it’s developers rather than end-users who will notice the most new innovations.
Silverlight 3 finally supports AAC audio decoding as well as hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding which were big omissions in the previous release. Microsoft have also finally decided to open up the “native multimedia pipeline” so that other formats can be supported if the codecs are installed. Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 still maintains the ability to stream high resolution video and supports HD quality videos.
Does Silver-light has some opponents?
Although Microsoft’s Silverlight was originally conceived as a competitor to Adobe Flash, it now finds itself competing with Abobe’s web 2.0 platform, Adobe Air. The harsh truth is however, only 2 years on from its original release and Silverlight has already fallen woefully behind Adobe Air. In typical Microsoft style, the software giant surely missed the boat by aiming at a competitor for Adobe Flash when the web world was already looking towards interactive Web 2.0 platforms such as Adobe Air. It says a lot that the New York Times recently dumped Silverlight for Adobe Air to re-launch their Times Reader application.
Finally, How to start?
If you want to create content for Silverlight, you’ll need Expression Studio and Visual Studio.
Animators are also now far better supported with “Perspective 3D” which enables transformation of 2D elements to 3D.
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