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Visual Studio Learning Pack available for download Posted: 30 Jun 2009 04:34 PM PDT Good news for budding software programmers and coding enthus, as Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0 is available for download.It’s a software package created by Microsoft to help students learn about computer programming.This pack allows you to interactively step through concepts like sorting where you can visually represent the steps taken to algorithmically perform a sort.Basically it consists of 5 components. Sort Designer Control is a supplementary teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular computer sorting algorithms. It supports bubble and insertion sorting. The control generates initial values automatically and demonstrates intermediate states in the sorting process. It also generates sorting source code for both Visual Basic and C#. Search Designer Control is a teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular data search algorithms. It supports binary and sequential searches. The control generates initial values automatically and demonstrates intermediate states in the searching process. It also generates source code for both Visual Basic and C#.Using the Visual Sort Designer and Visual Search Designer Controls teachers can easily develop a sample program to demonstrate the fundamentals of sorting and searching. Visual Declarative Designer is an intuitive variable declaration tool designed for novice programmers. During the coding process the student can declare variables of various types and generate the corresponding source code. Visual Variable Declarative Designer provides a visual approach to variable declaration.Teachers in the Information Technology (IT) field can use this designer to teach students the basic concepts of variable declaration and naming, variable types, access modifiers, and initial values. Assistant Class Designer is a visual class designer for novice programmers. This designer guides students through the processes of adding classes, properties, methods and events. The designer also generates the corresponding source code for new classes. By using this designer, teachers and students can easily create and configure complicated classes. Assistant Class Designer provides an intuitive and interactive method for designing classes and helps students to understand key object-oriented programming concepts such as classes, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. The Assistant Class Designer generates source code for C# only. Visual Programming Flow Chart is a supplementary teaching tool designed to help students understand program control flow. It generates flow charts for functions and saves them in the JPG picture format. This tool is easily activated from the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by simply right-clicking on a function name and choosing "Generate flow chart…" from the context menu. The resulting flowchart can be customized by changing its colors and other effects. This visual tool provides an intuitive way to explore source code, to examine its control flow, and to identify logic errors. Download Visual Studio Learning Pack via Channel9

New builds assembled after Windows 7 7260 Posted: 30 Jun 2009 04:11 PM PDT Wzor reported that two new builds,6.1.7264.0.win7_rtm.090622-1900 and 6.1.7265.0.win7_rtm.090624-1905, have been assembled in the RTM branch (win7_rtm).So as per the info below are the builds which have been assembled. 6.1.7260.0.win7_rtm.090612-2110 6.1.7261.0.win7_rtm.090615-1900 6.1.7262.0.win7_rtm.090617-1900 6.1.7263.0.win7_rtm.090619-1900 6.1.7264.0.win7_rtm.090622-1900 6.1.7265.0.win7_rtm.090624-1905 Windows 7 Build 7264(6.1.7264.0.win7_rtm.090620-1900) is considered fake as from the build number the compilation date is 20th but reports say that it was compiled on the June 22th.Good news to Microsoft that there are no leaks currently regarding the builds.If everything goes as per the schedule posted by Wzor we can get the RTM release by 13th July.See below for more info on the schedule. FINAL ROADMAP FOR WINDOWS 7 [CLIENT-SERVER]: 6/1 – 6/19  BUILDING RTM ESCROW – already assembled RTM ESCROW. 6/22– 7/10 RTM RECALL – Assembly and search for candidates to the final RTM release. 7/10 WINDOWS 7 RTM FINAL BUILD TARGET – build day "gold code". 7/13 WINDOWS 7 RTM SIGN-OFF – the date of signing the final RTM release “Going gold" refers to the last step before general marketing would begin by October 22nd.Lets hope everything goes as per as the schedule.Thanks Windows7news

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