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The software maker puts the “D” in declarative programming as a key part of its larger Oslo model-driven development strategy.
Microsoft, which in October officially announced its intent to support model-driven development in a broad strategy known as “ Oslo,” is beginning work on a new declarative programming language, a supporting editing tool and other components of the initiative, according to sources close to the company.
Microsoft announced Oslo as part of an amorphous vision for simplifying application development, design, management and deployment. Company officials said Oslo will represent a core set of technology investments that will encompass both a services infrastructure—spanning server, client and the Internet “cloud”—and an executable modeling platform that will include a general-purpose modeling language, tools and repository.
However, the sources said that at the heart of the Oslo initiative lies a new declarative programming language currently known simply as “D.” If, as the code name implies, Oslo were a city, D would be the key to Oslo.
According to the sources, D is a new language under development at Microsoft aimed at building applications and components for the Oslo repository. However, D is but one piece of a much larger puzzle that will include graphical modeling tools and other components. D is expected to be a textual modeling language suitable for use by business professionals and domain experts.
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As MP3 Players only accept audio, you need to convert the audio from your videos to MP3 and other popular audio formats. Here I’ll use MelodyCan Ultra Video software to convert audio from video to MP3, M4A, WMA, AAC, WAV, OGG which supports all the iPod and other MP3/ MP4 players.
MelodyCan has a capability to watch an arbitrary media library folder and convert media content as soon as it was downloaded from a music provider or simply copied to that folder. This is implemented by means of ‘Automatic Conversion Folder’ engine and can be configured with corresponding fields in MelodyCan settings dialog.
TuneCab is media converter for DRM-protected or unprotected files for playing on PCs, mobile phones, MP3 players, MP4 players and iPods, PDAs, PSPs and other devices. It converts music, films, video clips, audio books to commonly used formats such as MP3, AAC, WAV audio, MPEG4, DivX movie, has YouTube Ripper plugin and CD Ripper.
TuneCab Ultra Video version 3.1.8 represents extremely high conversion speed with up to 50x in batch mode without loseless quality of converted files. The number of input formats has risen to 50 formats.
It lets you choose the compression level and it preserves ID3 tags for artist, album, title names etc.
A batch mode and the drag&drop function for folders and files allow to convert and unprotect large files collections with just 1-click.
The only condition is that content must be legally obtained and can be played on the computer where TuneCab is installed.
System Requirements:
Vista x32, Windows XP x32 or Windows 2003 x32
256 Megabyte RAM
Microsoft’s MediaPlayer 9 or higher installed
Neodynamic is proud to announce the availability of Barcode Professional for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the only product providing linear, postal and 2D barcoding support for WPF platform!
Neodynamic Barcode Professional for WPF is a royalty-free lightweight .NET component which generates high quality vector-based barcodes for WPF Applications. Barcode Professional for WPF was designed and written from ground up to take advantage of new presentation layer featured by .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5.
Mindscape has released the first 100% WPF Property Grid that supports the .Net framework 3.0 and 3.5. For the first time, developers can use a property grid within their WPF applications without the need to use winforms interop, enabling the power and flexibility that WPF provides right out of the box.
Microsoft made good on its promise to offer .Net Framework 3.5 source code this week, three months after Scott Guthrie, a general manager within the Microsoft Developer division, posted Microsoft’s intent on his blog. The source code to classes such as System, IO, Windows.Forms, and others is now viewable from within Visual Studio. When the announcement was first made, however, some developers viewed it as a Pandora’s Box because the source code would be released under a “Reference” license, which meant developers could view the code but not use or modify it. On Wednesday Guthrie revealed a small change in the licensing which addresses those concerns:
“We made a small change to the license to specifically call out that the license does not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows platform that has ‘the same or substantially the same features or functionality’ as the .NET Framework,” he wrote. “If the software you are developing is for Windows platforms, you can look at the code, even if that software has ‘the same or substantially the same features or functionality’ as the .NET Framework.”
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