A tribute to Steve Jobs- Chairman, Apple.. A real super hero

Today I heard a sad news for techie world Apple chairman Steve Jobs passed away yesterday night. He was a great men and we would always remember him as a super hero who has brought lots innovations like iPod,iPhone and iPod etc. which changed our lives.

As Apple said on his page. “Apples has lost a visionary and creative genius,and world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could  have built and his spirit will be forever in foundation of apple”.

You can see a great image of him at http://www.apple.com like below with all product as menu like iPhone, iPod,iTunes etc. what  a men he was. My sincere  condolences to his family and Apple family. We always remember him as great men!!.

“And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” –Steve Jobs

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First Review of ASP. NET MVC 4.0 Developer Preview

After so much buzz Microsoft has launched some of the new tools at build conference and ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview is one of them.

How I can install ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview?

There are three ways to install ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview

1. You can download from following link-http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27419
2. You can install ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview with web platform installer from following link-http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=MVC4VS11&prerelease=true
3. You can also install ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer Preview from following link-http://www.nuget.org/List/Packages/AspNetMvc. If you don’t know about what is NuGet Package. Please visit following link of my blog.

http://www.dotnetjalps.com/2011/01/getting-started-with-nuget-packages.html

ASP.NET MVC 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010:

There are lots of people thinking that for asp.net mvc 4.0 developer preview, you need to install Visual Studio11 Developer Preview. But that is not true.It works with both. You can also run ASP.NET MVC 4.0 developer preview with side by side with ASP.NET MVC 3.0. You can use any of above method to install asp.net mvc 4.0 developer preview on either of Visual Studio Version.

Creating ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Project with Visual Studio 2010

You can create new asp.net mvc project as same old method like File->New Project and ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application.



Once you click OK It will open a dialog where it will open a dialog like following.



As you can see now there one more option for mobile application too. So this is one best thing in asp.net mvc 4.0. Now you can create mobile base application also. I will going to post about that in future posts.

Now I want to create Internet application I have selected and Clicked ‘OK’ and created new application. This will create basic mvc application. Now lets run application via F5 and it will look like following in browser.



As you can see in above image in browser Microsoft has given new template for asp.net mvc 4.0. Also there is new contact page in application. I will also going to post about this in future post.

That’s it. This was just a introduction post to ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview. There are lots of features are available in ASP.NET 4.0. I am going to explorer all this features in future posts. Hope you like it…Stay tuned for more.. Till then Happy programming.

Namaste!!

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First Review of Visual Studio11 Developer Preview

Recently before some days at Build Conference on September 14,2011 Microsoft has announced release of “Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview. You can download that from following link.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh127353

I have downloaded the .NET framework 4.5 and Visual Studio11 Developer preview from the above link. First I have installed .NET Framework 4.5 like below.



Once after I have installed .NET Framework 4.5. I have installed Visual Studio 11 Developer preview like following.



After installing once you load Visual Studio 11 developer preview it will look like following. It is much similar look like Visual Studio 2010.

 

What’s new in Visual Studio11 Developer Preview:

 

There are lots of new features in Visual Studio11 Developer preview let’s go through some of new features like following.

 

Create new project template:

 

New project template is almost same except there are .NET Framework 4.5 selection is also available with other framework 3.5 and 4.0.

Solution Explorer:

 

In solution explorer if you compare the stuff there are lots of new feature’s are available. You can see there are lots of Icon there in solution explorer compare to Visual Studio 2010.



Now you can do lots of things with Solution Explorer like Browsing Types,type members, search symbols and find relationship among them. I will explain them all this features in different post.

 

Quick Launch:

 

Another new feature you will notice is a Quick Launch. You can find lots of command and other stuff in visual studio from here. Suppose you want to create a new page then just type new it will give you all the options with new just like following.

 

Line Highlighter:

 

Another things I have found is line highlighter in code editor. It will highlight the current line in Editor.



There are so many other features that needs to be discover. I will post that in future posts. Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more..Namaste!!

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