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.

Source: Google

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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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Sample How to capture data from Magnetic Swipe Card reader/Credit Card Reader

This Sample app shows how to use Magnetic card reader or credit card reader from MAGTEK
http://www.hallogram.com/barcodes/scanners/mag/

in your Windows based project in POS-Inventory, Payment using Credit Card Processing ,etc very useful for resto, gas stations, grocery stores,etc.

This time we will be using their SDK/ Active X/ COM components provided by MAGTEK for this model in the link above instead of using MSComm Component or Serial port class (.NET).

Magnetic swipe card Overview

Magnetic swipe card readers for the PC are shipped with your choice of RS232, Keyboard Wedge or USB interface.

Features

Powered by USB, Keyboard Wedge Port or Serial Port (No external power supply required)
Single, Dual and Three track capability
Bi-directional read capability
Reads encoded cards that meet ISO, ANSI, and AAMVA standards
Up to 1,000,000 passes with ISO-conforming cards
Includes USB or KBW interface
Dual color LED Red/Green
KBW version includes Windows® driver available to simplify application programming.

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Invoking JavaScript function from WinForms

I've been working on application that needs to load page and display it in WebBrowser control. Requirement was to allow interaction between WinForms application and web page.

Here I will show a sample application where JavaScript function is called from WinForms application.
For this Blog I will be using Google Web elements , Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products to your website.

http://www.google.com/webelements/#!/custom-search

Process can be described by following steps:

Create Windows Forms application
Drop WebBrowser control into Form
Create Html with JavaScript function you want to call

Calling JavaScript function from WinForms application isn't so difficult.
.NET WebBrowser control has property Document which gets an HtmlDocument representing the Web page currently displayed in the WebBrowser control.

Well this javascript part is not well written ,maybe my Web God-Like Buddy (Rustan)) can clean this mess..lol

anyway here's the script

JAVASCRIPT

<script type="text/javascript">





google.load("elements", "1", {packages: "keyboard"});





var kbd;





function onLoad() {


var content = document.getElementById('content');


// Create the HTML for out text area


content.innerHTML = '<div>' +


'Demo of Invoking JavaScript using .NET' +


'.</div>' +


'<textarea id="t1" cols="47" rows="7"></textarea>';





kbd = new google.elements.keyboard.Keyboard(


[google.elements.keyboard.LayoutCode.ENGLISH],


['t1']);


}





function ChangeLayout() {





var LayOut=document.getElementById('txtLang').value;


kbd.setLayout(LayOut);   





}








function toggleVisible() {





if (kbd.isVisible()) {


kbd.setVisible(false);


} else {


kbd.setVisible(true);





}


}








google.setOnLoadCallback(onLoad);





</script>

So how can you call JavaScript functions in your WebBrowser control? Call the InvokeScript method on the HtmlDocument.

.NET CODE (winforms)

Sub SHOW_HIDE_VIR_KEYBOARD()


With Me.WBrowser





.Document.InvokeScript("toggleVisible", New Object() {""})  'call the javascript from the .htm files





End With


End Sub





Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdShow.Click


SHOW_HIDE_VIR_KEYBOARD()


End Sub








Private Sub ComboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ComboBox1.SelectedIndexChanged


With Me.WBrowser


.Document.GetElementById("txtLang").InnerText = Trim(Me.ComboBox1.Text)  'parse data from winforms to Htm files


.Document.InvokeScript("ChangeLayout", New Object() {""})  'call the javascript from the .htm files





End With


End Sub

Conclusions:

With the ability to call JavaScript from .NET App you can now embed and extend web applications into native applications with ease. A native application gives you more control over the environment and access to computer resources that you cannot access from a web page. You can Mashup web applications with computer hardware or software in new and interesting ways.

For the complete sample please download the demo project

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Software Freedom Day Philippines 2011

Greetings from the Software Freedom Network!

We are cordially inviting you to participate in the celebration of Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2011 in the Philippines on September 17, 8:00am – 5:00pm at the University of Santo Tomas (UST). SFD is a yearly celebration of software freedom that aims to educate the public about the value and importance of software
freedom.

Free and open source software (FOSS) are free, high-quality alternatives to proprietary software ranging from your operating system to applications you would use at home, in business, education and other social purposes. The affordability and viablity of FOSS tools have important economic and social impacts especially in third world countries like the Philippines.

The FOSS community intends to share its role in advancing the Filipino people's right to freedom of information in this year's SFD celebration, with the theme "FOSS: Enabling Freedom of Information". The event will have parallel plenary sessions on topics and issues regarding FOSS in the morning, followed by
breakout sessions in the afternoon featuring introductory trainings on FOSS applications and concepts. Hundreds of teams worldwide celebrated SFD in 2010. Over 700 celebrants trooping to the University of the Phililppines Diliman Campus and around 1,500 pre-event celebrants in Lipa City College. And we are expecting more participants this year! Your full participation in the event would definitely contribute to this year's success.

The SFD 2011 network is composed of the Computer Professionals' Union as the main organizer, and the University of Sto. Tomas Computer Science Society as host organization. Partner organizations supporting the event are Junior Computer Professionals' Union, UP Network for Educational Technology, ACT Teachers, Office of Rep. Hon. Teddy Casiño, Taguig City University Developers Society, Polytechnic University of the Philippines Taguig Computer Society, Technological University of the Philippines Manila Computer Association, Philippine Blender Users Group, GroupAid, OpenStreetMap Philippines, Exist Global, DevCon, Wikimedia Philippines, Mozilla Firefox, and many more.

We are still accepting interested partner organizations.

Thank you very much, and thank you for your full participation. Let the world know that CHANGE is
FOSSible!

Join vis FB!

https://www.facebook.com/events/401322329909043/

Source: 

http://2011.sfdphilippines.org/

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Sending SMS using AT Commands via GSM Modem/GSM Phone (receiving SMS-updated)

SMS Server VB Classic version

THE FULL SEND AND RECEIVED SMS SERVER with  complete Source Codes for developers are available to purchase.

.NET version is also available 

http://www.freeprogrammingtricks.com/2012/06/net-sms-server-with-database-sending.html

Feel free to contact me at the addresses and links below:

Demo:

This a sample how to send SMS using AT Commands like in Hyper Terminal via GSM Modem or compatible GSm phone attatched to the PC Comport or USB port..

For this sample i used Huawei E160 GSM/HSDPA/GPRS modem..

demonstrate how to use MSComm Control in VB6 in order to send data to the GSM Modem

TODO:

this code may not work with other modem so better check your modem's specs and manual

check your modem's settings (baud Rate,RtsHold,HandShake, etc .and comport number in order to run this project..

Good NEWS:

java and php version will out this month..

THE FULL SEND AND RECEIVED SMS SERVER with  complete Source Codes for developers are available to purchase.

Feel free to contact me at the addresses and links below:

feel free to use and improved my sample code, 

Goodluck

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Google Acquires Meebo Chat And Social Network

It’s been revealed today that Google has acquired chat and social sharing website Meebo, for an undisclosed sum. Meebo began its life back in 2005 as a browser based instant messaging program, which supported various different IM Services. Including Facebook Chat, Google Talk, CafeMom to name just a few.

Meebo then expanded its service into Meebo Bar, that allows its 190 million unique users, to chat with friends via hundreds of websites, and currently send over 90 million messages daily through its service.

Meebo also has iOS and Android application developed for its service. Both Google and Beebo have approved the transaction that is subject to customary closing conditions. Meebo explained on its blog post today.

“Together with Google, we’re super jazzed to roll up our sleeves and get cracking on even bigger and better ways to help users and website owners alike,”-”We’ve had a blast building Meebo so far and we’re really excited to start the next leg of our journey.”

Source: IntoMobile

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How to use GOOGLE MAP API and GOOGLE Earth PLUG-IN in VB6

This tutorial shows how to use Google Map API and google earth Plugins in vb 6. I used HTML file to view the Google Map interface in VB form. I used this in my GPS SMS, Tracking System, Flight Simulation and some Mapping projects so i cannot provide the complete project , just the sample how to run the API in your VB Form. You can figure it Out
 TODO; 
>fast internet connection is needed to run the sample >for this sample i used my current Latitude and longitude to plot the placemark. you can freely customize or improved it and use any programming language that you want(PHP, C#, HTML, ASP.NET, Android, FLASH and many more. 


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.NET Code (Sending and Receiving SMS using AT Commands via GSM Phone )

You can request for the Demo version or obtain the full source code of .NET SMS Server (pure AT commands, no OCX or dll) , just contact me @ the addresses below.

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.NET TV Tuner (Digital/Cable/Analog )

By 2015 all analog/Cable TV will be replalced by Digital TVs using Digital Signal like in Japan and other advance countries

The NTC decided that the Philippines will use and adopt the ISDB-T, finally.

So geek-gadgets people can watch live HD Channels for  free and Paid (PPV) from their PSP, Mobile Phones ,Tablets and ofcource PC and Laptops.

Sources:

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusiness.htm?f=2009/december/16/business4.isx&d=/2009/december/16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QJ9CCym5qM

I decided to do a research in order to interface and  create a Windows based Digital TV Tuner using .NET and COM32 components. 

Hardware Requirements:

1)Digital TV Tuner Installed (in my case I used Pixel View and Encore TV Tuners)

http://tv.about.com/od/frequentlyaskedquestions/f/buyingTVtuner.htm

Programming Requirements:

1)MSVidCtl (COM32 Components)

sample Codes still in BETA.

Thanks and Enjoy!!! HAppy Coding!!!

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