Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop

With Visual Studio 2012, we strive to provide the best development experience across all Microsoft platforms. This includes enabling developers to bring to life the richness of Windows desktop applications - whether you are learning to build your first app or whether you’ve been developing on Microsoft platforms for many years.

A few weeks ago, we shared our plans for the Express editions of Visual Studio 2012. As we've worked to deliver the best experience with Visual Studio for our platforms with Windows 8, Windows Phone, and for Web and Windows Azure, we heard from our community that developers want to have for Windows desktop development the same great experience and access to the latest Visual Studio 2012 features at the Express level.

Today, I’m happy to announce that we will add Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop to the Visual Studio 2012 family. This will bring to the Visual Studio Express family significant new capabilities that we’ve made available in Visual Studio 2012 for building great desktop applications.

Adhering to the core principles we’ve set for our Express products, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop will provide a simple, end-to-end development experience for developing Windows desktop applications targeted to run on all versions of Windows supported by Visual Studio 2012. With this new Express edition, developers will be able to use C++, C#, or Visual Basic to create Windows desktop and console applications.  Developers will also get access to new advances available across the Express family in Visual Studio 2012, such as the latest compilers and programming language tools, integrated unit testing, and the ability for small development teams to collaborate via Team Explorer and TFS Express.

Planned for release in the fall, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop will provide a great learning environment for students and other new developers getting started.  It will enable a friction-free solution for existing developers to bring their desktop apps forward with the latest toolsets.  And it will enable developers working on open source applications to target existing and previous versions of Windows.

Desktop development has always been a core part of Windows. With Visual Studio 2012, we continue to extend those desktop development capabilities and provide a great development experience for developers building desktop applications.

Source: MSDN

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Google Trusted Stores Verification Program Launches For Online Stores

Google has this week launched a new Google Trusted Stores Verification Program for online retailers, to help shoppers identify online stores that deliver a great experience. The new Google Trusted Stores service has been in testing for the last nine months, and monitors online stores and awards retailers that provide great service and shipping with a “trusted” badge.

Which when moused over reveals a retailers Trusted Store data, revealing the percent of on-time shipping, average number of days for shipping to name just a few. The Google Trusted Stores Verification Program also provides customers with a free purchase protection from Google, that customers can choose to take out when they make a purchase.

For more information on the free purchase protection jump over to the Google Trusted Stores website.

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Facebook Launches App Center

Facebook has launched its App Center for the web and mobile, and it will be available in the US initially and then Facebook will roll it out to the rest of the world at a later date.

Facebook’s Apps Center will offer a range of apps including popular favourites like Draw Something, Pinterest and more, and there will be around 600 apps available at launch.

The App Center features mobile and web apps, such as Draw Something, Pinterest, and Nike+ GPS, and new apps including Jetpack Joyride, Ghosts of Mistwood, and Ghost Recon Commander.

Discover the best apps for you

The App Center gives you personalized recommendations, and lets you browse the apps your friends use. It only lists high-quality apps, based on feedback from people who use the app.

You can find out more information about Facebook’s new App Center over at Facebook, it will be available in the US from today, there are no details as yet on when it will be rolled out worldwide.

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The Next Dimension of Google Maps

We’ve seen a number of improvements on Google Maps over the years, including the remarkable turn-by-turn navigation that can be found on Android and the addition of the indoor floor plans that allow users to see the entire layout of a mapped building. Then there is also Street View and Google Earth. We can expect another enhancement to Google Maps to be unveiled to us really soon, as Google is getting ready to release “the next dimension” on June 6, 2012. That’s only 2 days away from now and we can only imagine what they have to offer.

Supposedly, it’s expected that 3D maps will finally go live, and is made to help people get where they want to go both physically and virtually. Not much else has been revealed and so we’ll just have to wait until they give the official announcement.

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Games Of Thrones Ascent Game Arriving On Facebook

Today Disruptor Beam the Boston-based game company has announced that the first Facebook Games Of Thrones Ascent game, based on the HBO TV series Game of Thrones and award-winning novels by George R.R. Martin. Will be arriving on Facebook in the future, with an unspecified release date.

The new Facebook Games Of Thrones Ascent game will allow players to play nobles during the unrest protracted in the books and series. CEO of Disruptor Beam, Jon Radoff, in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat.

“Everyone at Disruptor Beam was a huge fan of Game of Thrones long before we began working on the game, so we recognize that other fans expect character-driven conflict and intrigue to take center stage in our new game,”

“In Game of Thrones Ascent players will lead the life of a noble during the time of upheaval as portrayed in the books and the series thus experiencing a new type of game that unites both story and strategy. Players will claim their birthright by choosing which of the great houses they’ll swear allegiance to, securing their holdings, developing their lands and personal reputation, and assigning sworn swords to quests–while forging alliances with new friends and much more!”

Source: Venture Beat

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.NET Twitter Gadget

REST API The REST API enables developers to access some of the core primitives of Twitter including timelines, status updates, and user information. If you're building application that leverages core Twitter objects, then this is the API for you. Imagine building a profile of a user: their name, their Twitter handle, their profile avatar, and the graph of people that they are following on Twitter - all with a few RESTful API calls. 

In addition to offering programmatic access to the timeline, status, and user objects, this API also enables developers a multitude of integration opportunities to interact with Twitter. Through the REST API, the user can create and post tweets back to Twitter, reply to tweets, favorite certain tweets, retweet other tweets, and more.

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VB.NET GIS Project

-.NET Application demo using Google Places API

-added getdirection API
-Google Map ver. 3 API
-calling/invoking Javascript from .NET Forms

-great for advance GIS developer

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