Microsoft, Adobe sweep developer awards

Adobe and Microsoft won several of the awards at Saltmarch Media’s annual Great Indian Developer Awards. These awards recognize the product and innovation excellence of the hundreds of software products and tools that aid developer productivity, across 11 different categories. The selection criteria applied by an international stature panel places emphasis on functionality, usability, innovation excellence, bleeding-edge quotient, and feedback from the developer ecosystem.

CATEGORY	AWARD WINNERS
Development environments	Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Collaboration solution	Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional
Content management	Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS)
Design and modeling	IBM Rational Rose
Change and configuration management	CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Edition
Testing	JBoss Profiler
Security	Quest InTrust
Web development	Adobe ColdFusion 8
Mobile development	Nokia Symbian
Frameworks	Adobe Flex
Database	SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports & Oracle Database 11g

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010 with WPF UI

Jason Zander (General Manager, Visual Studio, Developer Division) has published the first screenshots about the new Visual Studio 2010 User Interface, totally written with WPF.

Screenshots speaks...

Martin Blogs provides additional features of VS 2010. Some of the following screen shots are from his Blog. Martin’s Blog can be reached here.

Jason lists some of the changes that have been done:

· Reduced clutter and visual complexity by removing excessive lines and gradients in the UX and modernized the interface by removing outdated 3D bevels

· Placed focus on content areas by opening negative space between windows and drawing attention to the current focus with a dominant accent color and a distinctive background

· Added an inviting new palette to make VS 2010 more distinctive

One of the requested features in Visual Studio has been floating documents, so that developers can have windows on multiple monitors while coding. With the new UI this will be possible.

Cheers,

Ravishankar

Simple ways to Debug client Javascript – part I.

JavaScript is used in millions of Web pages to add functionality, validate forms, detect browsers, and much more. Building of bigger and more complicated scripts, especially using DOM model or form field values can cause a lot of frustration and head pain. Moreover, JavaScript debugging is not Hassle free. However Visual Studio in-built feature helps us to debug client-side scripts.

Script Explorer is one of less known features of Visual Studio 2005. This great tool allows easily debug JavaScripts. This option will be hidden in Debug menu and appears only when the debugger is running.

Step 1:

- Open in Internet Explorer. Select Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab.

- Deselect the following (make the checkbox unchecked):

o Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer).

o Disable Script Debugging (Other).

Step 2:

- Open Visual Studio, Run the Project [Go to Debug Menu and Click on start Debugging / Press F5].

- Go to Debug à Windows à Script Explorer or [Press Ctrl + Alt + N]

At this moment, A Script Explorer panel appears which displays the tree of active JavaScripts. At the first level are scripts that are imported from external sources or embedded in the page. By double-clicking on the selected script it will open in the main window.

It’s ready for debugging.

- You can Place Breakpoint in javascript functions,

- Step into the Code, Watch / Quick Watch the variables.

Happy scripting... :)