Vikram Lakhotia Blog on Asp.Net, Dot Net, SQL, VIsual Studio, C# etc

Hi,

Microsoft has announced the release of the Beta 2 of the Visual Studio 2010. MSDN Subscribers can download the same today and this will be available for the general Public of Wednesday. The link for download is

http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/vstudio/dd582936(en-us).aspx

VS 2010 and .NET 4 bring a huge number of improvements and additions. They include big advances for ASP.NET web development, WPF and Windows Forms client development, SharePoint development, Silverlight development, data development, parallel computing development, and cloud computing development. VS 2010 also delivers a ton of improvements in the core IDE, code editors, programming languages, and enterprise design, architect, and testing tools. 

Hi,

Although a little late in blogging this, But I would like to invite all people in and around kolkata to join the KolkataNET - KolkataITPro - Community Tech Day on 11th Oct. 2009. The event is being held at International School of Business & Media, Kolkata Campus situated at Kolkata (address below). The event does not require any registeration free and is free.

The agenda for the event are below.

Hi,

Of late Microsoft Has been doing great job in creating an great experience for installation for both development component for Asp.net and IIS server and also available free open source software. Yes I am talking about the Web Platform Installer 2.0.

The web Platform Installer has been a great success, and is very user friendly tool to install most of the available software required for web development along with many available open source platforms and application.

Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Also known as Web PI) was released recently and can be downloaded from the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx