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Ten Cool Visual Studio 2010 Features

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

I’ve attended an event late March in Glasgow where Scott Guthrie, Microsoft vice president showed off some of the new fewatures of Visual Studio 2010. Based on this talk and my experience using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the Release Candidate I’ve collected the ten most useful new features of this edition. These are:

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On yesterday’s Scot Alt.NET meeting I held a presentation (An Introduction to Silverlight) that was aimed at providing an overview of Silverlight and looking at some of it’s most important features. Thanks to the about 30 people who’ve attended and given feedback, I hope you’ve found it useful. For those who have missed out I’ll [...]

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Teamwork isn’t an easy sport: the bigger the team the harder it gets. If the goals/milestones are set clear, one person will probably complete the project just fine. If it’s a team of two they’ll probably split up the work, track each other progress and finish in time. If its one of three, four or [...]

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It’s been a week since we’ve come home from the Innovation Accelerator in Mountain View. This is the trip that we’ve won on the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Paris, last summer, as special prize. It’s been a great week - we’ve attended numerous priceless sessions and gained a peek into the entrepreneurial life in Silicon [...]

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During my stay in Silicon Valley I had the chance to chat with Steve Newcomb, the founder of Powerset. As he explained Powerset is a search engine that is based on linguistics and AI. During its development they gathered the top AI people to build a tool that would deliver better results than Google.
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First trip to Silicon Valley

Monday, April 13th, 2009

In summer 2008 me and three friends representing Hungary as team DigitalMania took part in the Microsoft Imagine Cup competiton in the software design category - one of the largest student technology competitons in the world. The task was to design an implement a solution regarding an environmental issue. We focused on the water problem [...]

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I still can’t believe it but it’s true: with team Digitalmania, Hungary we’ve won 3rd place on the Microsoft Imagine Cup world finals in Paris and were one of the 6 teams to receive the Innovation Accelerator prize in the main category, Software Design!! It’s amazing… we are also the first Hungarian team to make [...]

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