SyncEXPERT

We have noticed a few blog and news posts pointing to what is being called an updated version of Microsoft Sync Framework. In order to clear up the confusion, we wanted to let everyone know that this in fact is not an update to our previously released version 1.0 of Sync Framework.

Last week we renamed a few of the download files to reflect the various architectures that are supported (ia64,x64,x86). During this renaming, the Microsoft Download Center updated the published date, making it look like a new version of Sync Framework was available.

We want to appologize for any confusion this may have caused.

Source: Microsoft Sync Framework

Stitching together several of your digital photos into a panorama can give wonderful results but some of the stitching software is not very user friendly.

There are some best free program yet for stitching together your digital photos and surprise, surprise, it comes from Microsoft. It’s currently a free beta but Tony suspects it may end up as a commercial product and suggests you hop in and get it for free while you can.

What is a stitch program? Quite simply, if you have taken a series of photographs of a scene that you would like to piece together as one picture, then this is what you’re looking for.

Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor). I am very, very impressed with this photographic image stitcher. This is a BETA software and Microsoft are offering it free, but I am not sure if this will remain so when it comes out of BETA. The first thing you have to have of course is some pics to stitch together and I have tried a number of different images from 2 to 8 the stitching of the images worked very well on all the panoramic pictures, whether it was vertical or horizonal. Opening formats it accepts:

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Announcing Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services RTM!

We are excited to announce the RTM of the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, including the RTM of the ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services, which raise the level of abstraction for database programming and supply both a new model-based paradigm and a rich, standards-based framework for creating data-oriented Web services. With this service pack, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 also support SQL Server 2008, making the Microsoft platform the most comprehensive environment for database application development.

“The ASP.NET AJAX improvements and new capabilities like ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services meant we didn’t have to worry about any of the underlying plumbing and could simply focus on building a highly responsive and interactive experience for users,” says Galen Murdock, President and CEO at Veracity Solutions. 

For more information or to download check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/data  

Elisa Flasko
Program Manager, Data Programmability