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Wave of New Microsoft Enterprise Products Showcased at Tech.Ed Middle East
Microsoft Gulf showcased its next generation of infrastructure and application platform products at Tech.Ed Middle East 2010 including Internet Explorer (IE) 9; Microsoft Office 2010; SQL Server 2008 R2; Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Together with its partners in the region such as Dell, Intel, HP and AMD, Microsoft leveraged Tech.Ed to demonstrate a slew of advanced technology offerings to IT professionals, developers, partners and customers.
Charbel Fakhoury, General Manager, Microsoft Gulf said, “The essence of Tech.Ed is to showcase our current and future offerings and what makes them the most powerful platforms that businesses today are looking for to achieve significant productivity and efficiency gains along with a dynamic technology infrastructure. This is our largest technology event globally and bringing it to the Gulf for the first time is proof of our commitment to the Middle East. Together with our partners, we aim to develop leading-edge technology and increase opportunities for skills development to spread the value of information and communications technology in the region.”
Microsoft also announced the launch of two new offers for Visual Studio customers looking to upgrade to the 2010 version. The first offer enables customers who purchased Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 Standard Edition to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 (without any level of MSDN) at the previous Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition USD $299 retail price. This offer will be available for six months, starting April 12, 2010.
Visual Studio 2010 to be launched on April 12
According to Rob Caron, Marketing Communications Manager for Developer and User Experience Runtimes & Tools at Microsoft, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are set to officially launch on Monday, April 12. The Visual Studio development system is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to help software developers create innovative, next-generation applications.
Rob Sanfilippo, analyst, Developer Tools and Strategy, Directions on Microsoft, said the performance challenges facing the VS2010 team weren’t hard to anticipate. “I’m not too surprised about the performance issues. I think it has a lot to do with getting it to at least match the previous release,”
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 was released in May and Beta 2 followed in October. At PDC, company officials announced a March 22, 2010 launch date for the IDE and framework. The newly announced April 12 launch date coincides with the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas, April 12-14. [via Visual Studio Magazine]
Download Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Release Candidate
The first Release Candidate Builds of Microsoft’s next generation development platform and tools are currently available for download for MSDN subscribers. It will be available for public on February 10 (Download Link). Visual Studio Quality Assurance team member, Kirill Osenkov, explained some of the problems with the product:
“During Beta 1 and Beta 2 it became painfully obvious that the new VS had an obesity problem: it was slow, consumed a lot of memory and the worst thing, with enough modules loaded it stopped fitting into the 2GB address space on 32-bit machines…. In a nutshell, with a lot of new functionality a lot more modules were loaded into memory. Besides, we now had to fully load the CLR (Common Language Runtime) and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) at application startup. Moreover, there were all kinds of memory leaks all over the place.”
Tech.Ed Middle East – Soma is coming to Dubai!
In an exciting development for the first ever Tech.Ed in Middle East, Somasegar is comfirmed as one of the keynote speakers. Yes! our very own Soma will be here. He knows how to win the hearts and minds of the software developers and designers. So, what are you waiting for? Register Today for Tech.Ed!
Somasegar is the Senior Vice President of Developer Division at Microsoft. As senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, S. Somasegar leads the teams responsible for providing tools and developer platform technologies targeted at developers, designers and teams involved in software development. This includes the Microsoft .NET developer platform that provides a consistent programming model spanning client, Web, server, device and services platform, Silverlight, the Visual Studio family of products, and Expression Studio.
“Agile Development using Team Foundation Server 2010″ Session by PalDev
PalDev, recently hosted an engaging and interactive discussion about TFS 2010, Scrum and how to use both to deliver software project success. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a collaborative software development platform that combines team portal, source and version control, work-item tracking, reporting, and project management. TFS is well suited for applying Agile development methodologies, including Scrum, to your software projects. Following speakers presented during the event.
- Pieter Groenewoud - Pieter is Head of Information Technology Services in AerData B.V, a leading provider of software products and services to the Aviation industry, located in Amsterdam, NL. Pieter brings more than 10 years of solid experience in application architecture, system analysis, and team management using Agile methodologies. DC8H5VA3JRSG
- Nour Jbour – Nour is a Lead Software Developer at Equiom, a software consultancy and project outsourcing firm with offices in the US and Palestine. Nour has spent the last 8 years leading development teams and applying various technologies, including Java, PHP, and .NET. He has a proven track record in consistently delivering successful large-scale applications.
Meet Bashar Lulu – Visual Basic MVP from Kuwait
Tell us who you are?
Bashar Lulu, a Palestinian born and raised in Kuwait. I started writing applications professionally in 1994, first with Visual Basic (started with version 3.0) and now in Visual Studio 2008 (and more recently I beta test Visual Studio 2010). I run my own company, which I established just over 1 year ago, and I’m currently the Chairman of DotNetBoom, the first and largest developer community in Kuwait.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I was first awarded in 2006 for a competency in Visual Basic. I have since then been re-awarded in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
I read a lot of articles and blogs, download a lot of betas and test a lot of software on my many virtual machines.
What does being an MVP mean to you?
It is a privilege and a responsibility. A privilege because we (MVPs) have firsthand access to up-and-coming Microsoft technologies, something I personally enjoy very much. A responsibility because we are sort of technical role models for other geeks out there; plus our responsibility to share this knowledge with others (not an easy feet believe me).
Jordev Awareness Sessions at Philadelphia University
Just like the awareness event at Germanian Jordanian Univeristy, JorDev guys conducted yet another awareness session this time at Philadelphia University, Jarash. The IT club of Philadelphia University invited Mohamed Saleh and Mohamed Salem to share their knowledge with the students. They presented on “Introducing SharePoint Server Technology” and “Introducing Visual Studio 2010“.
Jordev is the first user group in Jordan dedicated to the .NET Stack technologies. They were also part of successful activities like Microsoft Student Partners Awareness Day, Jordan Remix etc
Jordev Awareness Sessions in Germanian Jordanian University
Germanian Jordanian Univeristy recently hosted a series of Technology awareness sessions in cooperation with Microsoft Innovation Center and Jordan .NET User Group. Jordev is the first user group in Jordan dedicated to the .NET Stack technologies. They were also part of successful activities like Microsoft Student Partners Awareness Day, Jordan Remix etc
Mohamed Saleh started the event introducing the community, and how to build community culture between the students, and the new series of technologies for this year and the upcoming year. Second presentation was by Suliman Al-Batat which was targeted towards giving the students a high level understanding of Microsoft Student 2 Business Portal and the Dream Spark Program. They introduced Windows 7 Hot features and the architectural changes and finally Mohamed Salem presented about Visual Studio 2010 and how easier is the test driven development using VS 2010.
Microsoft Office 2010 Box Art
When Microsoft released the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 at PDC, it was regarded as the best Office product ever. It was recently proved when Microsoft released the fact that the beta version of Microsoft Office 2010 has hit 1 million downloads. Microsoft has also revamped the Office portal with some new features and a refresh look and feel.
Recently, a Polish site CentrumXP has revealed the official box art for Office 2010. You can also download the Office 2010 Icon Pack here.
Pakistan – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch in Pictures
SharePoint Pakistan User Group recently arranged “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch” at University of Central Punjab, Lahore. During the event the speakers covered latest technologies like Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Team System and provided real world guidance on Developing Application on top of SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET, Exploring Implementation and Integration scenarios and getting ready for SharePoint 2010.
