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Enterprises are widely adopting and deploying solutions based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Many SOA implementations rely on message formats defined with XML. The extensibility and structured nature of XML allows it to be used for communication between different systems. The verbosity, extensibility and flexibility of XML messages can create performance challenges for software developers to overcome. Intel® XML Software Suite is a comprehensive suite of high-performance C++ and Java* software-based runtime libraries for Linux* and Windows* operating systems. Intel XML Software Suite is standards compliant, to allow for easy integration into existing XML environments and is optimized to support complex and large-size XML document processing. Main features include: - Outstanding XML processing performance - Comprehensive XML processing functionality - Large XML file processing capacity - Standards compliant - High conformance - Efficient memory management - Thread-Safe Read Mor...

The final release of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack is now available for download. This release provides several exciting features for C++ developers, such as a major update to MFC and an implementation of TR1. These features are fully covered under Microsoft’s standard support policies. The Feature Pack is available free of charge to any Visual Studio 2008 Standard or above customer. The download can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D466226B-8DAB-445F-A7B4-448B326C48E7&displaylang=en. Using the included MFC components, developers can create applications with the “look & feel” of Microsoft’s most popular products – Microsoft Office, Visual Studio and Internet Explorer. Some of the interesting MFC components in the Feature Pack include: - Office 2007 Ribbon Bar: Ribbon, Pearl, Quick Access Toolbar, Status Bar, etc. - Office 2003 and XP look: Office-style toolbars and menus, Outlook-style shortcut bar, print preview, live font picker,...

DigiTurk is the first and only fully digital satellite television provider in Turkey. In addition to satellite TV for millions of customers in Turkey, they publish magazines and run DigiWeb portal. Like many other magazing publishers, DigiTurk saw value in using Silverlight to provide a richer reading experience. But they took the idea a step further, and built a tool which can be used by any magazine publisher to create Silverlight-based magazines. Tim Sneath sat down with the team from DigiTurk to get a demo and hear about how they built this cool solution. http://www.visitmix.com/blogs/news/digiturk/

Türkiyenin ilk ve tek dijital yayın platformu olan DIGITURK, yenilikçi vizyonuyla ve sınırsız müşteri memnuniyeti anlayışıyla abonelerine zengin içeriğini farklı kanallardan ulaştırmayı amaçladı ve bu bağlamda ilk dijital dergi projesini Microsoft'un Visual Studio 2008 ile entegre olan yeni ürünü Silverlight ile gerçekleştirdi. SilverPages ürünümüz hakkında ayrıntılı bilgi için lütfen tıklayınız...

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This past Friday we released the final RTW (release to web) support for VS 2008 Web Deployment projects. You can learn more about it and download it for free here. Web Deployment projects can be used with either the "ASP.NET Web Site" or "ASP.NET Web Application Project" options built-into VS 2008, and provide a few additional build, packaging and deployment options for you to use. You can read an old tutorial post of mine here to learn more about they work. The VS 2008 Web Deployment Project version supports all of the existing features provided by the VS 2005 web deployment download. It also adds additional support for: Easily migrating VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects to VS 2008 Web Deployment Projects Replacing output only if web deployment builds succeed IIS7 Support This RTW (release to web) version fixes bugs and adds some small features that people requested in the December CTP version we released last month. Please make sure to run setup and uninstall a...

One of the things we are trying to do with VS 2008 is to more frequently release public patches that roll-up bug-fixes of commonly reported problems. Today we are shipping a hot-fix roll-up that addresses several issues that we've seen reported with VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 web scenarios. Hot Fix Details You can download this hot-fix roll-up for free here (it is a 2.6MB download). Below is a list of the issues it fixes: HTML Source view performance Source editor freezes for a few seconds when typing in a page with a custom control that has more than two levels of sub-properties. “View Code” right-click context menu command takes a long time to appear with web application projects. Visual Studio has very slow behavior when opening large HTML documents. Visual Studio has responsiveness issues when working with big HTML files with certain markup. The Tab/Shift-Tab (Indent/Un-indent) operation is slow with large HTML selections. Design view performance Slow typin...

If the setup fails with "None of the products that are addressed by this software update are installed on this computer. Click Cancel to exit setup." try the following: Start the setup and wait till the dialog appears, but don't click cancel. Now go to the root of the drive where VS2008 is installed. There should be a folder with a random name ("2a3c3425751ec881b40910" for example), copy the VS90-VCFeaturePack-Beta-KB945273-x86x64-ENU.msp file to a different location. Now cancel the setup. Now double-click the msp-file to start the patch manually. Make sure that you have at least 1 GB of free disk space on drive C.

A beta version of a major MFC/TR1 feature pack is now available for download. Please note that this feature pack is only supported on systems which have the English language (ENU) version of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite or Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition installed. These components allow developers to create applications with the “look and feel” of the most popular Microsoft products - including Office, Internet Explorer, and Visual Studio. With this update, you’ll be able to build applications that utilize: · Office Ribbon style interface · Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP look and feel · Modern Visual Studio-style docking toolbars and panes · Fully customizable toolbars and menus · A rich set of advanced GUI controls · Advanced MDI tabs and groups · And much more! In addition, this release includes an implementation of TR1. Portions of TR1 are scheduled for adoption in the upcoming C++0x standard as ...

Android™ will deliver a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. An early look at the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available . Open Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It is built to be truly open. For example, an application could call upon any of the phone's core functionality such as making calls, sending text messages, or using the camera, allowing developers to create richer and more cohesive experiences for users. Android is built on the open Linux Kernel. Furthermore, it utilizes a custom virtual machine that has been designed to optimize memory and hardware resources in a mobile environment. Android will be open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting edge technologies as they emerge. The platform will continue to evolve as the developer community works...