Visual Studio 2010 is the latest version of Microsoft’s IDE which has a new improved UI build using WPF, tools for Windows 7 and SharePoint 2010, drag and drop bindings for Silverlight and WPF, parallel programming support and the inclusion of Dynamic Language Runtime for programming with scripting languages. The release of Visual Studio...
With the announcement of Silverlight 4 on day 2 at PDC09, Silverface, a desktop application for Facebook, was demoed. Two days back, an application called Fishbowl was released by UXLabs@Microsoft. This application is a sample Facebook client that lets you update you status, scroll through your news feeds, easily browse through friends, browse...
If Twitter clients weren’t enough already, Facebook recently updated its API to allow developers to create client applications that would let you update your status or keep an eye on your stream. But which are most popular Facebook clients amongst them all? To answer that question, this edition of Apps for Windows is dedicated to Desktop...
Sobees web is a web version of bDule – a Twitter/Facebook client for Windows with a new twist though. It’s made of Silverlight 3 and supports Silverlight out of Browser experience.
It’s a fully featured Twitter client with support for multiple accounts, RT, pictures, URL shortening and much more. The Facebook part of Sobees web isn’t...
Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow is a visual tool for designing and prototyping desktop and web applications. You build an application by drawing shapes, drawing controls such as buttons and list boxes, making the pieces of your application respond to mouse clicks and other user input, and styling everything to look uniquely your own.
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Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 Beta will be released to MSDN subscribers today and will be released to the general public this Wednesday, 20th May. If you have an MSDN account you’ll be able to download it in an hour or two. Meanwhile, you can read this post to get an overview of what’s coming in this new release, or you can check out...
Mary Jo Foley has gotten information that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4 might be rolled out next week, possibly around 18th May. VS 2010 will ship with F# now where as Iron Python will ship out of band, like F# does for VS 2008. Microsoft already pushed out a Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 CTP in October 2008 at PDC which was in the...
Microsoft shows off Facebook Open Stream API demos from Rafe Needleman on Vimeo.
Don’t say you didn’t see this one coming, after Microsoft bought shares of Facebook. Microsoft demoed 2 applications based on Facebook’s new Open Stream API that actually make happy that you’ll be able to avoid the mess of the web interface that Facebook...
Microsoft Vine is the Redmond Giant’s take on Twitter. It’s actually more focused on the real time web and happenings rather than starting conversations as in Twitter. Vine will be used to stay in touch, informed and involved when it matters. It comes with its own slick looking desktop app, based on WPF.
The application has a map built...
Blu, the WPF Twitter app for Windows XP and beyond, has been finally updated with the long awaited Twitpic integration, and have they nailed it! It has a very simple but intuitive way of uploading the images, without any extra clicks or hassle what so ever. Actually, it’s a ‘clickless’ process just like the TinyURL integration in Blu....
