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The Korean firm Thinkware has released a GPS system with a built-in TV receiver and integrated karaoke functionality. Running Windows CE 5.0, the iNavi G-1 plays a wide variety of audio and video formats, and even includes several built-in games.

The iNavi G-1 is claimed to support a wide variety of file formats for multimedia playback. These include: MP3, OGG Vorbis and WMA for audio; JPEG and BMP for still image; and DivX, Xvid, MPEG1, MPEG4, and WMV9 for video.
Other specifications include:

• Processor — RMI Alchemy Au1200, clocked at 500MHz
• Memory — 128MB DDR RAM; 64MB NAND flash
• Display — 7-inch, 800 x 480 pixel TFT display
• Expansion — SD/MMC card interface
• Audio — 2 speakers (3W total), mic and line inputs
• I/O ports — USB 2.0 (client and host)
• Dimensions — 7.6 x 4.7 x .82 inches (119 x 119 x 21 mm)
• Weight — 15.6 ounces

Source: windowsfordevices.com

Visual WebGui Is…

Open source.

User-Friendly – Visual WebGui was designed to be the next VB6 for the web. Simple to program, simple to deploy. With a full WinForms API and design time support you can start developing complex AJAX applications in seconds with no web know-how.

Secured – Visual WebGui was designed to provide for military grade secured AJAX applications by eliminating client side service consumption and business logic processing using an empty client concept. The browser is used as a looking glass to the server that runs the application.

Productive – With full WinForms API and design time support, Visual WebGui is almost as productive as R.A.D. platforms without limiting your options. Debug your application the same way you would debug any .NET application free of script debugging nightmares.

Powerful – Visual WebGui was designed to support enterprise class applications with unlimited complexity supported by full object oriented programming. Using our unique AJAX transport, Visual WebGui applications consume 1% of bandwidth compared to any alternative AJAX framework.

Feature-Rich – Visual WebGui contains most of WinForm’s components including non trivial implementations of controls such as the PropertyGrid that provides a simple way to edit live objects.

Supported - Visual WebGui is supported by its Core Team of developers and a dedicated international community. Through online forums and our support@visualwebgui.com mail box support is always close at hand (commercial support will be available soon).

Easily Installed – Visual WebGui comes with a simple installation that will get you started on developing your AJAX application in no time. Visual WebGui’s toolbox and templates are integrated into Visual Studio so they are always available.

Localized – Visual WebGui includes full .NET and WinForms multi-language localization support which allows you to localize your application in the designer the same way you localize a WinForms application.

Open Source – Visual WebGui SDK is provided free, as open-source software, and licensed under a standard LGPL agreement. It allows individuals to do whatever they wish with the application framework, both commercially and non-commercially.

Cutting-Edge – Visual WebGui provides the developer with full object oriented .NET support allowing utilization of all the .NET capabilities including reflection, generics and more. This is enabled by a unique architecture that provides an alternative HTTP processing pipeline that does not include serializing JavaScript.

Extensible – Visual WebGui is provided with many customization and extensibility features including custom control creation, theme creation and gateways.

Interopable – As an extension to ASP.NET, Visual WebGui can also interact with standard ASP.NET pages hosting them within your Visual WebGui application or calling Visual WebGui dialogs and forms from your ASP.NET code.

Visual WebGui’s roadmap includes…

Mono deployment - Allowing your Visual WebGui application to run on non Microsoft servers (Visual WebGui for .NET 1.1 is already compatible with mono).

Legacy to web – Migrating WinForms or VB6 applications to web with out rewriting your application.

Dual mode deployment – Deploy your Visual WebGui application as a desktop application or a web application enjoying the best of both worlds.

• Visual WebGui Open Source Project
• QuickStarts with WebGUI
• Roy Osherove’s Blog

Microsoft Research Accelerator Project - Accelerator provides a high-level data-parallel programming model as a library that is available for all .Net programming languages. The library translates the data-parallel operations on-the-fly to optimized GPU pixel shader code and API calls. Future versions will target multi-core cpus.

Accelerator is a .NET 2.0 DLL that requires DirectX 9, included with Windows XP SP2, and a graphics card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0 or above. Graphics cards without hardware vertex processing, common on cheaper laptops, do not appear to work.

Accelerator is released under a non-commercial Shared Source license agreement. This means that while a developer can look at the source code, special permission is needed to actually use it in a production environment. Also, the source is not actually included in the installer or on the project’s wiki page.

The current build can be downloaded from Microsoft Research. Note that the date on this page is incorrect. The build you get was actually uploaded in July of this year.

Source: infoq.com

Resources:

•  Microsoft Research Accelerator Project
• project’s wiki page.

ual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available for download. You can download specific edition of VS or get the full Team Suite. There are separate downloads for Team Foundation Server and Load Test Agent. You can also find VPC images with VS 2008.

The release includes .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 and Silverlight 1.0 RC.

What makes it even more appealing to us is the Go Live license. It means that you get full support from MS Support on this beta software and you can start integrating it into your production systems.

Remember that team editions are renamed and instead for Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Software Developers you should say Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Development Edition.

Source: Martin Kulov’s Blog

When you setup your MySQL database, Godaddy supplies you with  MySQL Connector .NET 1.0. I got the following error: “System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers. at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.ThrowSecurityException(Assembly asm, PermissionSet granted, PermissionSet refused, RuntimeMethodHandle rmh, SecurityAction action, Object demand, IPermission permThatFailed) at _Default.GetDataTable1(String sqlString, Boolean closeConnection) at _Default.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in d:\hosting\iliadobrev\winecellarsbulgariaorg\Default.aspx.cs:line 23 The action that failed was: LinkDemand The Zone of the assembly that failed was: MyComputer”

Problem: your ASP.NET 2.0 application is running under “medium trust”  -  a context not allowing calls to unsigned assemblies

Solutions for Godaddy.NET Hosting with MySQL Databases:

•  Downloaded the Connector/NET 1.0 provider from the MySql site:  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/1.0.html
• Source code were installed to the following location: C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Connector Net 1.0.9
• Added the following to the AssemblyInfo.cs file:
  • Using System.Security;
  • [assembly: AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers()]     - Added this at the end of the ‘assembly’ section

• Built the new assembly and use it.

Windows-based robots have won the two-legged soccer competitions in the RoboCup 2007 humanoid league. German team NimbRo defeated reigning champion Team Osaka in a two-on-two match, and bested Spanish team PAL Technology in a penalty kick competition.

NimbRo’s two-legged “KidSize” robots, just under 2 feet tall, feature 20 joints driven by intelligent actuators. According to Sven Behnke, head of the Humanoid Research group at the University of Freiburg’s Computer Science Institute, the autonomous robots are controlled by a Sony Vaio UX UMPC running Windows XP, located in the upper part of the trunk. Three wide-angle uEye USB cameras allow the robots to perceive the field.

All in all, Windows XP dominated the humanoid league of RoboCup 2007, since the runner-up robots of Team Osaka, the VisiON 4G and Vstone810, also run that operating system.

The next RoboCup will be held in July 2008 in Suzhou, China

One of the other JavaScript features that I’m sure will be popular in VS 2008 is the much-improved support for JavaScript debugging.  This is enabled in both the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition as well as in Visual Studio, and makes using JavaScript and building AJAX applications significantly easier.One of the annoying things with VS 2005 is that you have to first run your ASP.NET pages before you can set JavaScript breakpoints in them in the debugger.

Original Post:  ScottGu’s Blog -  VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging