Jack @ ASP.NET

As a software engineer, I focus on .NET, especially asp.net, C#, WCF and so on, and I am also very interested in Search Engine Optimization.

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CD/DVD Label Printer – Print On Your Own Disc

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CD or DVD products in the production of the enterprise are increased, more and more people out of the production of optical discs with adhesive labels fisnished. On the label is now considered a small profession. Glossy inkjet labels can still be but it looks impressive, but those using the process of the disc label or use the CD should be taken into account it may persist in their CD or DVD player off. The distance from the disc label is not common, but it is known, often the glue has dried up the CD DVD label came. This is usually encountered by the troops because the disc, because it such a high speed rotation.

The term DVD or CD printers are often used to describe used to print directly to a CD or DVD products. Have a special adhesive label printer, the printing is no longer relevant.It the concept of cheap, is to hope that the completion of the professional production of home CD and DVD products, the great starting point.

You can think about taking a printer and print you own CD label.

Market and Development of Flash Games

Free online game is based on Flash or Shockwave, and in the short future maybe silverlignt based if Microsoft wish. Take this hunting games for example, it is a flash online game. And now, it allows users to access online games through explores, such as IE, FireFox, Chrome and so on. Users can also choose to download his / her discretion in the game for his / her convenience and benefits. These free games, the same instance of a click happy online, because they are after all the hard disk in the user’s system to download.

And you can also play this kind of games using mobile phones, such as your windows phone7. (Can anyone tell me why iPhone don’t support flash!?). At first time, people felt so fascinated tourists witnessed the vast expanse of these games, in his / her selection of the closing of many topics. For this reason, he / she can not resist trying to gain experience at least one game, and eventually agreed to return the number of times, in the passionate pursuit of interactive entertainment faithful. Just give you 2 example games, fashion games, dirt bike games. You will love playing them the time you open it! The video and audio is as fashion as the client games which will take you 1G spaces.

From some statistic, the this market will be very huge. In 2006 the flash games industry revenue was 1.1 billion and it was expected that by 2010 it would reach 4.4 billion. But now it’s expected that it will reach 15 billion $! Will it be exciting?

Developers, don’t hesitate! It is your chance to start developing flash games!

Players,  don’t hesitate! Try something new via trying some flash games!

Why Online Time Clock Apps Can Save Your Money

An online time tracking application allows your employees to click a button to clock in and out while automatically adding up the total of hours. Vacation and sick hours are automatically tracked as well, freeing up even more valuable time.

Online Employee Time Clock applications are saving business owners big bucks by keeping track of everything from bookkeeping, time tracking, to customer leads. Online apps eliminate mistakes, save time, and keep stringent records, which keeps business owners organized and aware.

Everyone knows industry connections are an important factor in establishing your business. Online timekeeping frees you up so that you can get out of the office and meet some colleagues. You can trust that your employees are reporting their hours accurately. If you need more assurance, you can access your records from anywhere in the world. Setting up a further project tracking feature would give you an even keener eye into daily duties.

Let’s say you have an employee that makes $10/hour. One week that employee pencils in an extra ten minutes on Monday morning’s timecard because she came in late and then rounds an extra 10 minutes on Wednesday because she wanted to beat traffic; she just cost you your morning latte. No big deal, right? We buy people coffee all the time.

But the story rarely ends here. Not only will this employee continue to pad her timecard but so will the rest of your workforce. If you have five employees averaging $10/hour adding just three minutes each day on the way in and three minutes on the way out, you are paying each of them for an extra half hour per week. That’s just over two hours per month. For all five of your employees you are spending an extra $100/month or $1200/year.

WebMatrix – Microsoft’s new web tool

What Is It?

WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. It includes IIS Developer Express (a development Web server), ASP.NET (a Web framework), and SQL Server Compact (an embedded database). It streamlines Web site development and makes it easy to start Web sites from popular open-source apps. The skills and code you develop with WebMatrix transition seamlessly to Visual Studio and SQL Server.

Why Use It?

You will use the same powerful Web server, database engine and web framework that will run your Web site on the Internet, which makes the transition from development to product seamless. Beyond ensuring everything just works, WebMatrix includes new features that make Web development easier.

Who’s it for?

WebMatrix is for developers, students, or just about anyone who just wants a small and simple way to build Web sites. Start coding, testing, and deploying your own Web sites without having to worry about configuring your own Web server, managing databases, or learning a lot of concepts. WebMatrix makes Web site development easy.

Code Without Boundaries

WebMatrix provides an easy way to get started with Web development. With an integrated code editor and a database editor, Web site and server management, search optimization, FTP publishing, and more, WebMatrix provides a fresh, new Web site development experience that seamlessly bridges all the key components you need in order to create, run, and deploy a Web site.

Top Features:

Small, but complete package

WebMatrix is a free Web development tool that installs in minutes and elegantly brings together a Web server, a database, and programming frameworks into a single, integrated experience. WebMatrix lets you code, test, and deploy both ASP.NET and PHP applications side by side.

Grows with you

With WebMatrix on your desktop, you’re using the same powerful Web server, database engine, and frameworks that your Web site on the internet uses. This ensures that your transition from development to production is smooth and seamless.

When you’re ready, WebMatrix integrates Visual Studio into your workflow. Connect to Visual Studio to take advantage of powerful features such as debugging and profiling. And when you’re ready for a high-volume relational database server, move your database and data from SQL Server Compact to SQL Server with just a click of the mouse.

Start > Open Source

WebMatrix connects you to a world of popular and free open-source Web applications, including DotNetNuke, Umbraco, WordPress, Joomla!, and more. Simply select an application from the built-in gallery, and WebMatrix handles the downloading and installation of your new Web site. The days of hand-editing configuration files and making sure you have all the right components are long gone. Customize your site using the built in code editor and make it yours.

Database made simple

Using a database has never been easier! WebMatrix includes a small, embedded database called SQL Server Compact that can live with your Web site code and content. Use it to start building your next Web site, and when you’re ready to publish, just copy the database file from your computer to any Web server and it will run— no extra installation required. Or you can easily migrate the database and data to SQL Server when you’re ready for high-volume traffic.

Elegant interface, simple experience

WebMatrix integrates a rich code editor, a database editor, Web server management, Search Engine Optimization, FTP publishing, and more, WebMatrix provides a fresh, new, Web site development experience that bridges all the key components you need to create, run, and deploy a Web site.

Simple to code

WebMatrix is the easiest way to learn standards-based Web development and makes it simple to build and publish Web sites on the internet. Start with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and then seamlessly connect to a database or add in dynamic server code using the new ‘Razor’ syntax for ASP.NET Web pages. Your code is easy to read, simple to learn, short to write and works with any text editor. Use built-in helper functions to connect to a database, display a Twitter feed, or embed a video. And with a seamless path to ASP.NET MVC it is now easier than ever to create powerful ASP.NET Web applications.

More than “Hello, World”

Want to display a Twitter feed? Need to show a video? Code helpers make common tasks easy to do with just a simple tag in your HTML.

Desktop or server, it’s all the same

WebMatrix uses the same powerful Web server, database engine, and frameworks environment that will run your Web site on the Internet, which makes the transition from development to product seamless.

Tightly knit, fully integrated

WebMatrix integrates with IIS Developer Express and is tightly linked with the Web server components that run your site. Directly monitor real-time Web requests and responses to track down problems right at the source. Missing an image? You’ll instantly see why and where, and WebMatrix will take you directly to the file to fix the problem.

Optimize for search

Run an SEO report and find how to make your site more visible to search engines. WebMatrix takes the secrets out of search engine optimization, provides clear guidance on how to make your site better, and even offers to take you right to the file in your site you need to fix.

Site publishing

With WebMatrix you can find the perfect home for your Web site. Use WebMatrix to find a Web host that fits your requirements and use the built-in publishing support for FTP, FTPS, and WebDeploy to ensure that your files, databases, and settings arrive intact on the web.

VS 2010 Webinar Session Overviews

Visual Studio 2010 is set to be released in April.  Microsoft has made significant investments to improve the “Testing”, “Architecture”, and “Developer” tools within Visual Studio to make it an even more powerful productivity solution.

VS 2010 Webinar Session Overviews:

TITLE DESCRIPTION
Full Testing Experience: Professional QA with Visual Studio 2010 Join us as we demonstrate the testing and quality assurance lifecycle using Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server. We’ll dive into the testing tools and testing process you can use to dramatically improve the effectiveness of your QA and Test efforts. You’ll see the Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (MTLM) in all its glory as we explore how to manage your test environment, organize test suites, test cases, requirements and bugs, and how to manage both automated and manual test runs. In addition, you’ll see how to easily create an automated test from an existing manual test run. Finally, and most importantly, you’ll discover how insanely easy it is to create bugs that can be simply and reliably reproduced by developers – VS 2010 is that powerful.
Improving Development Practices with  Visual Studio 2010 This is an overview of the new development and database tools in Visual Studio 2010. New capabilities of historical debugging, code analysis, profiling and the new test impact analysis will be demonstrated. Working with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010, gated-check-in will be discussed as well as the tester/developer collaboration experience. The new architect tools will be demonstrated to facilitate a better understanding of how modeling is a part of the development experience.
Lab Manager – The Ultimate “No More No Repro” Tool Designing, building and testing code is a hard job. A job made even harder by the fact that most organizations don’t have development and test environments that are clean, easily reset and similar to the production environment. Enter virtualization…and Lab Manager. Lab manager allows you to define, configure and create complete development or test environments as needed. It can coordinate both physical and virtual environments, and comes with an incredibly powerful suite of effective tools that make managing environments simple and cost effective. Attend this webcast event to see Lab Manager in action!
Managing Requirements with Team Foundation Server 2010 Requirements management is a struggle for many organizations. A distinction must be drawn between requirements elicitation, requirements documentation and requirements management. Team Foundation Server provides rich capabilities for managing requirements and can easily be integrated with your preferred tools for documenting requirements. Best practices of requirement elicitation, documentation, management and traceability will be discussed in the context of the requirement lifecycle and how TFS 2010 and third party tools can maximize your overall requirements management process.
Overview of Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools This overview of Visual Studio 2010 highlights the difference between Team System 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. Emphasis will be put on what migration steps need to be taken to maximize new features including testing tools, version control, work item tracking and build enhancements. As a basis for demonstration, the development processes and practices used to create Notion Tools for Team System will be shown, including branching models, build and deployment automation, custom reporting and workflows.
Streamlining Testing with  Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools This Visual Studio 2010 overview features Visual Studio Test Elements 2010 testing tools including using the new Microsoft Test and Lab Manager to manage and automate your UI testing. The use of Test Lab will be discussed as a means of automating the creation of virtual environments for testing purposes. Deploying to VM environments during build will be demonstrated and facilitate a robust developer/tester lifecycle. For a taste of real-world use, the test plans and test process used to perform multi-platform testing of Notion Tools for Team System will be shown.
Using Team Foundation Server 2010 for Non-Windows Development This is an overview of best practices for utilizing Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and the Teamprise Client Suite for development activities beyond Microsoft and the Windows platform. This webcast shows development teams using mixed and non-Microsoft platforms how to effectively leverage TFS 2010 to adopt work item tracking, version control, and automated build and test technologies.
Visual Studio 2010 Quality Tools for Developers This webcast event will demonstrate how developers use Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server to create high quality code, reliably reproduce and efficiently fix reported bugs, and truly work with the testing team. We’ll demonstrate the use of several important tools, such as test impact analysis, IntelliTrace, and other tools that help you understand your code, pinpoint bugs and efficiently fix them. Let’s face it – fixing bugs is both tedious and hard. VS 2010 provides the tools to both you and the tester to make finding, reproducing and fixing bugs dramatically simpler.
What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 Why you should consider Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010. We’re going to discuss the specific business value of the Visual Studio ALM tools now and later. Free webinar event to learn how to get the most out of the Visual Studio investments that your organization has made. You owe it to yourself to learn how this new solution will help you be a more productive in your role!

Team Foundation Server (TFS) Power Tools 2010 Release Candidate are Available!

With this release our Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools are now compatible with the Release Candidate version of the Visual Studio clients.

Changes from Beta2

· Fixes to customer reported bugs

· Team Members is now enabled

· Extended rules for the RC Best Practice Analyzer

The following are the Power Tools supported in this release.

  • Process Template Editor
  • Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer
  • Check-In Policy Pack
  • Work Item Templates
  • Alert Editor
  • Windows Shell Extension       
  • PowerShell Support   
  • TFPT Command Line 
  • Team Members

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