Video: Every Girl Can Code with Microsoft Small Basic

Leveraging Microsoft Small Basic to teach future generations of women. Here is a video which tells how Microsoft Small Basic helps them to achieve more So please leverage Microsoft Small Basic to teach future generations of women, young girls. They can learn via Visual Programming, create programs, Games and improve their knowledge. Learn the programming concepts starting with the fundamentals and move your way up. Small Basic is based on .NET and what you learn here could be easily applied to other .NET programming languages like Visual Basic. And when you do graduate to Visual Basic, you can bring your existing programs with you using a built-in conversion utility.

Just to update you that Microsoft Small Basic puts the “fun” back into computer programming. Few of the interesting stuff I want to mention were,

– With a friendly development environment that is very easy to master, it eases both kids and adults into the world of programming.
– Small Basic combines a friendly environment with a very simple language and a rich and engaging set of libraries to make your programs and games pop.
– In a matter of few lines of code, you will be well on your way to creating your very own game.
– With a new and revolutionary IntelliSense®, Small Basic makes writing code a breeze.
– Now you can share your programs with your friends; let them import your published programs and run them on their computer.

 

For more information, refer the following:

Site: http://www.smallbasic.com/
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=46392
Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/smallbasic/ 
Curriculum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16299.small-basic-curriculum.aspx
Documentation: http://www.smallbasic.com/doc.aspx
e-Books: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16386.small-basic-e-books.aspx
Program Gallery: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/archive/2013/02/17/small-basic-program-gallery-listed-by-category.aspx
Extensions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/archive/2012/10/12/small-basic-extensions-gallery.aspx

Hope this helps.

E-Book Review – Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals, Preview Edition

In this post I am going to share my views on the E-Book which I finished reading in the recent time; it’s titled “Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals, Preview Edition (ISBN: 9780735696969)” authored by Ed Bott. The author is a well known award-winning technology journalist and wrote more than 25+ books earlier on Microsoft Windows and Office.

(Select the above link, download a copy of the eBook)

As I updated earlier, this book is a preview, a work in progress about a work in progress, lol. But it offers a great snapshot of the Windows 10 Technical Preview as of April 2015, on the eve of the BUILD Developers’ Conference in San Francisco. By design, this preview edition provides more detailed info and good book for IT Pro’s. Ed promises that he will revise and expand the content in this edition to reflect the finished product when the Windows 10 will be launched – that would be awesome for sure.

This book starts with an overview of the operating system, laying out the many changes to the user experience, and diving deep into deployment and management tools where it’s necessary. Also i can see that it’s not a in-depth guide or detailed book. But it will help you to understand how and when, to incorporate Windows 10 into your enterprise, based on your own organizational requirements. That’s the cool stuff with this book. If you’re an IT Pro, then you will find tips and tricks about the new user experience than your users want but more about management, deployment, and security in this book. I love the following info which is discussed in detail:

– Introduction about Windows 10
– Installing and deploying Windows 10
– Security
– Deploying and managing Windows Store apps
– Web browsing and Web apps
– Windows 10 Networking
– Virtualization and remote access
– Backup and recovery options in Windows 10
– Windows 10 on Phones and small tablets

So I would recommend this book; as it’s good for any IT Pro who wish to learn more about Windows 10 and it provides more detailed info, technical know-how, tips/tricks, insights. You can download a copy of the book in PDF format with Mobu and ePub formats as well.

Happy learning

Book review: Programming Windows Phone 7

Are you the Windows Phone 7 developer or want to know how to create WP7 apps? Then this book is meant for you. To give you a sense of this offering, here is Charles’s Introduction—beneath that you’ll find the ebook’s full Table of Contents:

Introduction

This book is a gift from the Windows Phone 7 team at Microsoft to the programming community, and I am proud to have been a part of it. Within the pages that follow, I show you the basics of writing applications for Windows Phone 7 using the C# programming language with the Silverlight and XNA 2D frameworks.

Yes, Programming Windows Phone 7 is truly a free download, but for those readers who still love paper—as I certainly do—this book will also be available (for sale) divided into two fully-indexed print editions: Microsoft Silverlight Programming for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft XNA Framework Programming for Windows Phone 7. ]

The best thing would be, with the money you’ve saved downloading this book, please buy other books. Despite the plethora of information available online, books are still the best way to learn about programming within a coherent and cohesive tutorial narrative. Every book sale brings a tear of joy to an author’s eye, so please help make them weep overflowing rivers.

In particular, you might want to buy other books to supplement the material in this book. For example, I barely mention Web services in this book, and that’s a serious deficiency because Web services are likely to become increasingly important in Windows Phone 7 applications. My coverage of XNA is limited to 2D graphics and while I hope to add several 3D chapters in the next edition of this book, I don’t really get into the whole Xbox LIVE community aspect of game development. Nor do I discuss any programming tools beyond Visual Studio—not even Expression Blend.

Sections:

This book is divided into three parts. The first part discusses basic concepts of Windows Phone 7 programming using example programs that target both Silverlight and the XNA framework. It is likely that many Windows Phone 7 developers will choose either one platform or the other, but I think it’s important for all developers who have at least a little knowledge of the alternative to their chosen path.

The second part of this book focuses entirely on Silverlight, and the third part on XNA 2D. For your convenience, the chapters in each part build upon previous knowledge in a progressive tutorial narrative, and hence are intended to be read sequentially.

To use this book properly you’ll need to download and install the Windows Phone Developer Tools, which includes Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, XNA Game Studio 4.0, and an on-screen Windows Phone Emulator to test your programs in the absence of an actual device. Get the latest information and downloads at http://developer.windowsphone.com.

PDF Download:BTW, you can download a PDF here (38.6 MB).

Code samples (C#): You can download the ebook’s C# sample code here (5.03 MB).

Code samples (VB.Net): And you can download the sample code in Visual Basic for Chapters 1-18 here (5.21 MB).

Nice way to start with! Wonderful book for the Windows Phone 7 programming!

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MS Learning Initiative: Looking for Microsoft Training & Certification deals ?

As part of Microsoft Learning’s Career Initiative, which helps customers and students to get trained and certified on Microsoft technologies, Microsoft Learning re-launched Second Shot on January 13.

Here’s Tjeerd Veninga describing the program: 

We believe Microsoft Certification can boost your career and we want you to be successful when you take an exam. By adding Second Shot to our Career Initiative, you can now register for a free retake (should you need it), and take the exam with less anxiety and fear of not passing the exam. Second Shot is available for IT Pros, Developers and students; you can use this special offer to pass exams that are directly related to the top IT jobs available in the industry today.

Job roles, learning paths and clear guidance on getting skilled for these jobs can be found on the Microsoft Student Career Portal and for professionals, the Microsoft Professional Career Portal.

Students register here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/…

Offer details

• Dates: January 13, 2010 – June 30, 2010.

• Details: You must register, obtain a voucher code, schedule, pay, and sit for both the first and (if necessary) the retake exam before June 30, 2010.

• Applicable exams: This offer applies to any Microsoft Certification exam that has a 072 prefix (student series).

• Eligible regions: This offer is available globally except in India and China.

• Only one Second Shot voucher is issued per purchased exam.

Professionals register here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/…

 

Offer details

• Dates: January 13, 2010 – June 30, 2010.

• Details: You must register, obtain a voucher code, schedule, pay, and take the first and (if necessary) the retake exam before June 30, 2010.

• Applicable exams: This offer applies to all Microsoft Learning IT professional, developer, project management, and Microsoft Dynamics exams, including academic exams.

  • Visit the Learning Catalog and search for your next exam

• Eligible regions: This is a worldwide offer that is available at Prometric test centers only.

• Only one Second Shot voucher is available per purchased exam.

  

“Because of the breadth and depth of products and technologies, an IT Pro or Developer could build an entire career on Microsoft technology.”

Cushing Anderson, Program Vice President for IDC, Consulting, HR, and Learning

Resources available: Exchange 2010

PrePress Chapter Downloads:

• Exchange 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant: Chapter 1: Exchange Server Administration Overview AND Chapter 6: Mailbox Administration (Note: this is pre-release material that is based on information from Exchange 2010 Beta; for Exchange 2010 RC documentation, see the link below).

Free eLearning Clinics:

• Collection 6899: Exploring Features in Exchange 2010 (2-hours)
• Collection 6900: Introduction to Exchange 2010 (1-hour)
• Collection 6901: Exchange Server 2010 in an Enterprise (1-hour)

Instructor-Led Training:

• Course 10133a: First Look Clinic – What’s New in Exchange Server 2010 (3-hours)
• Course 10134a: Hands on Lab – What’s New in Exchange Server 2010 (3-hours)
• Course 10150a: Exchange Server 2010 (Beta) Ignite (3-days)

Training Portal Link:

• Exchange 2010 Learning Portal

Outlook Object Model : Why i can’t able to assign value for MAPIFolder.WebViewURL ?

One of my customer had created an Outlook Add-in using VSTO & Outlook Object Model (OOM). As per the business logic, he need to implement the WebViewURL in it. The MAPIFolder.WebViewURL works fine and take’s us to set value to it most of the times, but it doesn’t function as expected in some time; the strange thing is it’s not throwing any error or exception when we execute the code.

//[Code Snippet : C# , VSTO, Outlook Object Model (OOM)]

...

//Provide the non-default store path

String pstPath = @"providelocalpath like c:personals.pst";

MAPIFolder _pstFolder;

//Add the PST

this.Application.Session.AddStoreEx(pstPath, OlStoreType.olStoreDefault);

_pstFolder = this.Application.Session.Folders[2];

//Provide PSTFolder Name

_pstFolder.Name = "SampleFolder";

//Set the values

MAPIFolder mf = _pstFolder.Folders.Add("MyHtmlView", Type.Missing);

//Assign value for MAPIFolder.WebViewURL

mf.WebViewURL = "http://www.microsoft.com";

mf.WebViewOn = true;

...

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; }
.csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }
.csharpcode .str { color: #006080; }
.csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; }
.csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; }
.csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; }
.csharpcode .html { color: #800000; }
.csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; }
.csharpcode .alt
{
background-color: #f4f4f4;
width: 100%;
margin: 0em;
}
.csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }

MAPIFolder.WebViewURL Property (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook) Returns or sets a String (string in C#) indicating the URL of the Web page that is assigned to a folder. Read/write.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.outlook.mapifolder.webviewurl.aspx

When we start troubleshooting the case, we found that the issue happens for the non-default stores.

During research we found couple of community blog post references, Randy & Ryan’s MS Press book that with respect to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, the home page setting is disabled for non-default stores. Non-default stores can include Personal Folders files (.pst) or the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services folders. These folders are also stored in a .pst file. To see the home page setting for a non-default store, right-click the store in the Navigation Pane, click Properties, and then click the Home Page tab.

By default, you cannot type or paste a URL in the Address box. This issue occurs because, by default, home pages are disabled for non-default stores. To overcome this issue, we don’t have any programmatic resolution; but we can implement the resolution by refer the following support KB.

Windows Server 2008 Resources (E-learning, E-Book, Hands-on labs, Skills transitioning courses)

It’s for all Microsoft developers, enthusists!! 

 

Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate helps IT professionals to increase the flexibility and reliability of their server infrastructure while offering developers a more robust web and applications platform for building connected applications and services.

 

To download the RC1 Enterprise 64 bit only with the Hyper-V Beta, go to

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F22F69E-D1AF-49F0-8236-2B742B354919&displaylang=en

 

Other Windows Server 2008 Resources: 

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Free Windows Server 2008 e-book offer and Microsoft Press newsletter This e-book includes excerpts from two recent publications from Microsoft Press: • Introducing Windows Server 2008 by Mitch Tulloch with the Microsoft Windows Server Team (ISBN: 9780735624214) This e-book covers Windows Server virtualization, managing Windows Server 2008, Active Directory, Terminal Services, and failover clustering. • Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step by Step by Ed Wilson (ISBN: 9780735623958) This e-book includes an overview of Windows PowerShell, using Windows PowerShell cmdlets, and leveraging PowerShell providers. Additional chapters from Introducing Windows Server 2008 will be added periodically, so be sure to come back and read more from expert Mitch Tulloch and the Windows Server team. Register to get the free e-book offer, and sign up for the Microsoft Press Book Connection newsletter. • Register now

Microsoft E-Learning 

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Collection 5934: Introducing Windows Server 2008—free for a limited time! This online learning collection of clinics introduces the new features and functionality in Windows Server 2008. The clinics cover server virtualization, security and policy management, branch office management, centralized application access, and server management. You can take the entire collection of clinics, or just the clinics that interest you. • Clinic 5935: Introducing Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 • Clinic 5936: Introducing Security and Policy Management in Windows Server 2008 • Clinic 5937: Introducing Branch Office Management in Windows Server 2008 • Clinic 5938: Introducing Centralized Application Access in Windows Server 2008 • Clinic 5939: Introducing Server Management in Windows Server 2008

 

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Collection 6041: Upgrading Your Windows Server 2003 MCSE Technical Skills to Windows Server 2008 Get a head start on Windows Server 2008. Now is the time to upgrade your technical skills on Windows Server 2008 with Microsoft E-Learning Collection 6041, including access to virtual labs. Special limited time offer! Sign up for this collection now and get free registration for three upgrade collections on Networking, Active Directory, and Application Platform Services as they become available. • Course 6042: Installing and Managing Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6043: Implementing Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6044: Implementing Active Directory Identities and Access in Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6045: Managing Internet Information Services 7.0 and Windows Media Server in Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6046: Implementing Network Infrastructure Services in Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6047: Implementing Network Access Protection in Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6048: Implementing Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6049: Implementing a Storage Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6050: Implementing Security in Windows Server 2008 (Beta) • Course 6051: Implementing High Availability and Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 (Beta)

Classroom training

Classroom training is designed to help you transition your skills and build expertise on Windows Server 2008 with world-class learning content. In this section, you will find both first-look courses as well as skills-transitioning courses.

First-look courses and hands-on labs

These 90-minute clinics and accompanying hands-on labs target specific scenarios on Windows Server 2008 to help you prepare for Windows Server 2008 certification.

•	Course 6400: First Look: Getting Started with Centralized Application Access in Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6401: First Look: Getting Started with Centralized Application Access in Windows Server 2008 Hands-On Lab
•	Course 6402: First Look: Getting Started with Branch Office Management in Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6403: First Look: Getting Started with Branch Office Management in Windows Server 2008 Hands-On Lab
•	Course 6404: First Look: Getting Started with High Availability in Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6405: First Look: Getting Started with High Availability in Windows Server 2008 Hands-On Lab
•	Course 6406: First Look: Getting Started with Security and Policy Control in Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6407: First Look: Getting Started with Security and Policy Control in Windows Server 2008 Hands-On Lab
•	Course 6408: First Look: Getting Started with Server Management in Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6409: First Look: Getting Started with Server Management in Windows Server 2008 Hands-On Lab
•	Course 6410: First Look: Getting Started with Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6411: First Look: Getting Started with Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 Hands-On Lab
•	Course 6412: First Look: Getting Started with Web and Applications Platform Technologies in Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6413: First Look: Getting Started with Web and Applications Platform Technologies in Windows Server 2008 Hands-On Lab

Skills transitioning courses

These three-day classroom sessions are designed to help Microsoft Certified Systems Administrators (MCSAs) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSEs) transition their skills from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008.

•	Course 6415: Updating Your Network Infrastructure Technology Skills to Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6416: Updating Your Active Directory Technology Skills to Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6417: Updating Your Application Platform Technology Skills to Windows Server 2008
•	Course 6418: Deploying Windows Server 2008

If you are interested in building a Learning Plan for 2008, here is the place.

http://learning.microsoft.com/manager/LearningPlanV2.aspx?resourceId=%7b5c72c6e4-9848-46b7-a7e5-3b4bd54196cd%7d&clang=en-US