F.A.Q s of Microsoft Student Champs….

Hi there ! Microsoft Sri Lanka has initiated a student community called Microsoft Student Champs and I’ll tell what is this community and how it acts and so forth;

1.What is Microsoft Student Champs.?

MSC is a Student Based community which was initiated by Microsoft Sri Lanka .This  is like Microsoft Student Partner Program in Other countries.

2.Is it just a technical community?

Nope.It’s not .For the Survival of IT related graduates they need more than something which they normally don’t get from their Universities .This community will provide those things for them.

3. What are the other things?

Well,You can improve your presentation skills,How to face for an Interview(Improve your Soft Skills.).Sharing the knowledge with Other university people and Industry professionals.And there are so many things that you can get from this.For this MSC Organizing a Non-Tech meeting too.

4.Well . How  I can join to this community?

Any University Student can join to this community.This Month is especially for the new comers!.We called it Networking Month.

You can log in to the champs web or visit our Facebook Group for getting the latest Information on this community.

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Cool Tricks & Tips in VS 2010(Part I)

Hi there after a few weeks ! . Anyway Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has some remarkable features which you can never ever find from another IDE exists in the World!!!

So enough talking ,Lets find what are the Cool Features in this excellent IDE.

 

Arrange and Dock Feature.

VS 2010 has enhanced its docking feature of it’s sub windows.

They are ,

• Tab-dock windows to the editing frame.

• Dock tool windows to the edge of a frame in the IDE.

• Float windows over or outside the IDE.

• Minimize tool windows along the edge of the IDE.

• Display windows on different monitors.

• Tile windows in the editing frame.

• Reset window placement to the default layout.

 

The following diagram shows the guide diamonds that appear when you drag a tool window or document window toward the center of the IDE. The diamond on the right edge only appears when you drag a tool window toward the edge of the IDE.

 

To dock tool windows and document windows

1. Click the tool window or document window you want to dock.

2. Drag the window toward the middle of the IDE.

   A guide diamond appears. The four arrows of the diamond point toward the four sides of the editing pane. If the window is a tool window, an additional four arrows point to the four edges of the IDE.

3. When the window you are dragging reaches the location where you want to dock it, move the pointer over the corresponding portion of the guide diamond. The designated area is shaded.

4. To dock the window in the position indicated, release the mouse button.

 

Zoom

You can zoom in or out in any code or text editing window by pressing and holding the CTRL key and moving the scroll wheel on the mouse. The zoom feature does not work in other windows.

Box Selection

New VS 2010 has added the following new features to the IDE.(Previous versions of VS also had the Box Selection ,you could select a rectangular region of text by holding down the Alt key while selecting a region with the mouse. You could then copy or delete the selected text)

• Text insertion: Type into a box selection to insert the new text on every selected line.

• Paste: Paste the contents of one box selection into another.

• Zero-length boxes: Make a vertical selection zero characters wide to create a multi-line insertion point for new or copied text.

Architecture Explorer

A cool addition in VS2010 is the Architecture Explorer (Click View->Architecture Explorer).This will provide visual interfaces for navigate through your solutions.

 

References:- Microsoft Developers Network,amazedsaint’s .net journal.

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.NET Workshop @ SUSL

 

A two day .NET Workshop was organized at Sabaragmuwa University of Sri Lanka on 30th September and 1st of October and the Workshop was conducted by the Microsoft Student Champs Community.

The Opening Ceremony was started with a keynote speech which was conducted by Mr.Wellington Perera (Director –Developer Platform Evangelism,Microsoft Sri Lanka) and following speech was done by Dr C.P Udawatte (Dept Head-physical sciences,Faculty of Applied Sciences)

 

In this workshop there are several areas are covered with .NET technology such as,

• C#.NET
• OOP with C#
• ADO.NET & SQL Server
• Web Services
• ASP.NET

Behalf of the Champs community Several Students Ambassadors,

• Madusha Nanayakkara
• Chanaka Herath
• Prageeth Sandakelum

and

Sachira Chintana as a Student champ came to the conduct the workshop

and Two Guest speakers,

• Mr.Prabath Fonseka
• Mr.Chandana Athauda

came to share the knowledge of them with the students.

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Greenfoot- Java Game Programming and Learning Programming made easy!

Greenfoot is actually a Framework,It is very very helpful for Novice Programmers and this is mainly aimed for JAVA assignments which have two dimensional grids(Like burick! burick !! Games) :D.
Greenfoot has,

• Framework for creating two dimensional grids in JAVA
• Integrated Development Environment(class browser,editor,compiler,execution,etc)

Framework:-
Framework has two responsibilities,

1. Make it easy to create graphical representations of objects.
2. Control the execution (start, stop, step) of a simulation loop.

IDE of Greenfoot
The greenfoot environment contains the typical elements of a development environment:

• A source code editor
• A class browser
• Compilation
• Execution control
• A debugger

Who should use greenfoot?(Adopted from Authors)

Greenfoot is aimed at programming at high school level or above (from age 13 up). It can be effectively used at school level, college and university, and even in advanced university courses. The students at high school levels might not be as commited to programming and we have tried to create an interesting program that should engage the student. In order to do this, we acknowledge that students have different opinions on what might be interesting. Hence, we sought to create a flexible environment that could be customised for the specific group of students. Furthermore, in the design of greenfoot we considered the different learning styles of students. you can  download this  from Greenfoot.org and it needs JDK also.

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Windows Phone 7 Programming-Ebook

Hi there Microsoft press has announced Giving an ebook about Programming Windows Phone 7 and this was written by Petzold(you know him right ? Programming windows ….etc ;) )And this Excerpt Edition has only 6 chapters but 11 to go!

Here are the contents of this Book,

Part I   The Basics

Chapter 1   Hello, Windows Phone 7

Chapter 2   Getting Oriented

Chapter 3   An Introduction to Touch

Chapter 4   Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures

Chapter 5   Sensors and Services

Chapter 6   Issues in Application Architecture

 

Part II   Silverlight

Chapter 7   XAML Power and Limitations

Chapter 8   Elements and Properties

Part III   XNA

Chapter 20   Principles of Movement

Chapter 21   Textures and Sprites

Chapter 22   Touch and Play

You Can download this from here.

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Facebook Stories-Share your story…

 

Facebook Stories is a newest introduced functionality of facebook.Basically its a facebook Application which will helps you to share your thoughts with others in a different manner.

You can see others stories by location or themes,and in the front page there is a Bing map included to show the stories came from.Its a pretty interesting thing.  Isn’t it?

You can go to the Facebook Stories through stories.facebook.com

But still 3 stories from the Sri Lanka posted!!!,Hope it will increase soon :).So share your stories with FBians.

P.S:-FBians is a new word to name people who with and use Facebook .Its  came from my mind just now! You can pronounce it  as Fibians!!!:D

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Imagine Cup 2011 Just Started!!

The Worlds premier IT Competition application calling is started.(But Imaginecup.lk is not yet updated ;) ).Anyway this is the best platform for each and every university student to show their colors regarding to their IT Knowledge.

This year Imaginecup official site has updated like no other before.Next year finals will be held on USA,and last year registrants can easily migrate their accounts to the new system .

Last year all the First places are won by Asians.You can follow about the last year highlights through this link.

And finally all the Sri Lankan University People..Go Get It!!!

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Functional Programming , Functions in to Fun F#

Hello Every one this is my first technical blog post.So in that case i would like to introduce a new computer programming language called F#,The newest Language of .NET Family.


What is F#?
F# is a Strongly Typed that uses Type inference ,As a result programmer need not to declare the data types when it in compile time they will deduced by the compiler.It is a Object Oriented Language.Created by Microsoft Research.(As Usual :D)

Origin of F#
Created by Don Syme –Leader of the team that incubated the language in Microsoft Research.
and also F# which has been developed in a partnership between Microsoft Research and the Microsoft Developer Division.

                                                                                                       Don Syme

What F# Do?
Basically it is designed for Functional Programming tasks which means any one can use this language to solve problems and also use the large collection of .NET libraries.
The language enables explorative programming, with the flexibility to translate requirements into code easily. That ability makes F# particularly valuable for the technical, algorithmic, parallel, and data-rich fields, with applications ranging from financial-market analysis to machine learning and from scientific usage to game development.
The Visual Studio release includes important new features of F#:

• A simple, succinct functional syntax.
• A rich .NET object-oriented programming model.
• Integrated parallel and asynchronous programming features.
• Units of measure.
• F# Interactive.

The core syntax of F# follows in the tradition of ML programming languages, in particular, OCaml, and the language also incorporates key ideas from such languages as C#, Haskell, and Python. F# continues a long tradition of research and development by starting with the design of core ML and building atop it.
That’s all for today but i hope to continue this article from Code comparison of F# and C#
See you at the next post!

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C# code testing

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

// Output text to the screen.

Console.WriteLine(“The first app in Beginning C# Programming!”);

Console.ReadKey();

}

}

}

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Best Personal Management Site-From Lifehacker

Hi there .This is not my personal blog post this was taken from Lifehacker.com but i think it’ll useful to you.:D

Mint won by a significant landslide—perhaps the most significant in Hive Five history—which probably won't shock anyone. Despite the Hive being dominated by one contender, however, we still reap the benefit of seeing four other very viable personal finance management sites.
Mint took home 85% of the vote followed by Yodlee MoneyCenter (5%), Buxfer (2%), Mvelopes (1%), and ClearCheckbook with (1%). Each runner up offers a different set of tools and approaches than Mint so it's worth your while to hit up the Hive Five and investigate which is the best fit.

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Welcome!!

Hi ,

This is my first ever English weblog,purpose of this blog is to share the knowledge, cool things( What ever the that i wanted to share with others :D) with the others.so thats all for today see you at next post....(Something techie i think ;)  )

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