I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the F# September 2008 CTP Release, launched via the new MSDN F# Developer Center. This release represents an important step in the evolution of the F# language as we progress it towards a fully supported language for the .NET platform. A huge thank you to both the F# team and the community members who’ve helped us trial earlier versions of this release and given us so much excellent feedback.

F# is a simple, type-safe, efficient, scalable language for the .NET platform that supports both functional and object-oriented programming. One of the key things about F# is that it spans the spectrum from interactive, explorative scripting to component and large-scale software development. In this release we’ve made major improvements to the language, libraries and tools across this spectrum.

From the user viewpoint, the choice of application depends not only on its functionality, but on visual appealing and attractive interface.

A pack of Windows Vista style icons, Ribbon Bar Icons, allows the development of comprehensive and good-looking interface for any application. Ribbon Bar Icons is a set of professionally designed icons which can be used in ribbon toolbar and in standard one.

Perpetuum Software LLC offers a new edition of Ribbon Bar Icons package to design not only standard application interfaces, but unique ones (for example, multimedia, accounting, etc.). Professional Edition includes more than 1170 icons and opens extended abilities in professional application design. If you want to improve or develop unique appearance of your application or web site, Ribbon Bar Icons is a perfect way to modify your product interface.

View icons included in Ribbon Bar Icons Professional package here:
http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/sf/en/fls/ICON/RibbonBarIconsProfessional.pdf

This white paper describes how you can use the ImageDraw’s Dynamic Image Composition concept when working with real world XML Web Services such us Amazon Web Services which provides developers with direct access to Amazon\’s robust technology platform.

In order to demonstrate how you can use ImageDraw’s Dynamic Image Composition concept in Web Services scenarios, a fictitious ASP.NET Music Search page was developed. The idea behind that demo application is to leverage search power and content data to Amazon Web Services while leveraging visual appearance of search results to ImageDraw controls. The following figure shows how the demo application works.

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In the following Step-By-Step Guide we\’re going to create a local report (RDLC file) which features barcoding capabilities by using Barcode Professional SDK for .NET. Read More…

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This ImageDraw demo demonstrates how easily you can use ImageDraw object model and ASP.NET AJAX Framework to design an advanced AJAX-based Photo Editor.

The following figure is a screenshot of the ASP.NET AJAX Photo Editor application that leverages ASP.NET AJAX Framework, ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and ImageDraw.

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