Every software development has its stepwise procedure of Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, and its maintenance. And testing may be kind of many types like Black-box, White-box, Alpha, Beta, Unit, Milestone etc. Many of the development through Visual Studio 2010 needs to be tested before the actual product launch or distribution. Programmer has to make sure to have a command over their code what they have written through Unit Testing.

The Typemock Isolator 2010 is unit testing tool, for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0, which takes control over hectic methods and Code snippet. It occupies less testing code and simplifies unit testing by simpler and cleaner code. It provides support for variety of .NET Framework Technology including including WCF, WPF, SharePoint, Asp.Net and Silverlight.

This add in for VS 2010 auto-completes  and generates the cods and gives the developer to isolate or mock any method of class in a programe , such as Public, Private and Protected methods or Abstract or static class. It verifies the call arguments by delivering different fake objects and control behavior.

The Typemock Isolator Unit testing tool is simple to implement, easy to handle and contains simple API. It also supports the older .NET technologies rather then .NET 4.0.

Microsoft made an announcement of Silverlight 4 RC availability at MIX10 now they have launched special training course kit for the download.

The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 RC features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4.

This Training Course is the result of effort from a great developers like John Papa and Adam Kinney.

Download Silverlight 4 Training Course

Through MIX Microsoft has made the availability of Developer tools for Windows Mobile 7 application development. So what are you waiting for, Get started with the Windows Phone Developer Tools, Start creating today, and See your application in the Windows Phone Emulator.

Windows Phone Developer Tools includes:

• Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone Emulator
• Silverlight for Windows Phone
• XNA Game Studio 4.0 CTP

Download Links:

• VS2010 Express for Windows Mobile Homepage
• Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP

Developer Guide:

• Application Platform Overview for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone UI Design and Interaction Guide
• Designing Web Sites for Phone Browsers

MSDN Code Samples.

Windows Phone 7 Series MIX sessions and Keynotes.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 as General Availability and its available on different versions like Professional, Premium and Ultimate. Checkout the VS2010 MSDN page for the download links. And to check which version is perfect for u, just download the comparison chart.

WebsiteSpark is launching officially in Ireland on Tuesday, October 20th at the Guinness Storehouse.  WebsiteSpark provides web designers, developers, students, freelancers and anyone else who is interested software licenses, support and business resources to help them grow and succeed.

WebsiteSpark will provide you the following software licenses for three years.  After enrolling here, you can download & immediately use the software.

• 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional
• 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (including Blend, Sketchflow, Web & Encoder)
• 2 licenses of Expression Web 3
• 4 processor licenses of Windows Server 2008 R2 (can be used for development and/or production)
• 4 processor licenses for SQL Server 2008 Web Edition (can be used for development and/or production)

Along with the licenses, WebsiteSpark provides a business network to help grow your business, product support and free, online training.

Who can be a part of it:
There are only two requirements to join the WebsiteSpark program.  A) Your company builds websites and/or web applications for other people (that is, you’re not building a product, you’re providing a service) and B) Your company has < 10 employees.

The WebsiteSpark program allows you all of the above for free for three years.  At the end of the third year, there is a $100 program fee, but other than that there are no additional costs.

The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform including: Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services.

After downloading the training kit, run the self-extracting executable to extract all of the training kit files to your local machine. After the content is extracted, the starting page for the traning kit will be displayed in your default browser. You can then browse through the individual hands-on labs, demos, and presentations.

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To request an invitation code that can be used to register, please visit: http://www.azure.com

New Training Resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007

Implementer :

• FAST: Analyzing ESP Search Trends using Query Reporting Framework
• FAST: ESP CJK Support – Part I: CJK Languages
• FAST: Unity Plugins
• Click here for additional implementer training resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Click here for sales resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Click her for architect training resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Click here for developer training resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Click here for additional training resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007

New Training Resources on Microsoft Dynamics SL

Sales :

• Microsoft Dynamics SL: Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics SL Users
• Microsoft Dynamics SL: Improve Project Management with Microsoft Dynamics SL
• Microsoft Dynamics SL: Optimizing your Financial Management with Microsoft Dynamics SL 7.0 Feature
• Click here for more Sales Training Resources on Microsoft Dynamics SLClick here for Implementer Training Resources on Microsoft Dynamics SL
• Click here for Developer Training Resources on Microsoft Dynamics SL

New Training Resources on Forefront

Sales :

• Microsoft Forefront Identity and Security Solutions: Sales Training for Technology Partners
• Click here for additional sales training resources on Forefront

Implementer :

• Update on Forefront Security for Exchange Server, SharePoint & Antigen 9 Service Pack Releases
• TechNet Webcast: Deploying Forefront Client Security in the Enterprise Using Virtualization (Level 300)
• Click here for additional implementer training resources on Forefront

Microsoft has released the next version of Silverlight. Silverlight 3 include: major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity. Also, in order to fully integrate all the .NET developer tools, Visual Studio 2010 will support a fully editable and interactive designer for Silverlight.

• more detailed list of new features
• Silverlight 3 download and installation
• Microsoft® Silverlight^TM 3 SDK
• Microsoft® Silverlight^TM 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

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.NET version detector is a pretty handy tool in detecting the .NET version installed on your system and download the latest .NET version available. The current version of this tool can detect up to framework 4.0. Interestingly the tool also provides link to download SDK, framework and help you to navigate to the installation folder of each framework on your system.

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Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback which characterize rich Internet applications.

It is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of the .NET framework.

Please check out the links and materials below to help you get familiar with Silverlight.

USEFUL LINKS

• Overview
• Why Silverlight
• Silverlight -Showcase
• Silver Light Gallery
• Silverlight – Wiki

SILVERLIGHT  LEARNING RESOURCES

• How to Install and Uninstall Silverlight
• Silverlight Examples and Samples Download
• How to use gradient color brush in Silverlight
• How to display text with solid color brush
• Hello World Silverlight Example with Tag
• Install Silverlight

BOOK Resources:

• Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, 2nd Edition
• Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials
• Data Services with Silverlight 2
• Silverlight 2 in Action
• Silverlight Video
• Screen casts for Silverlight 2
• Hands-On Labs
• Silverlight Presentations
• Silverlight for Mobile
• Watch the following introductory videos for Silverlight 2

WHITE PAPERS

• Getting started
• Media & Animation
• Silverlight Server Administration

TOOLKIT

• Silverlight 2 Toolkit March 2009 Installer
• Silverlight 3 Toolkit March 2009 Installer
• Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Microsoft Expression Blend™ 2 Service Pack 1
• Microsoft Expression Blend™ 2 Trial
• Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Software Development Kit
• Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio
• Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Eclipse Tools for Silverlight

DOWNLOADS

• Silverlight – Documentation on Administration
• Free Ajax Code Generator!
• Install Deep Zoom Composer
• Microsoft Expression Blend
• Expression Design
• Silverlight Community
• Microsoft® Expression® Encoder 2 Trial
• Microsoft® Expression® Studio 2 Trial

Thanks to Mr pareshj from MSDN for collecting all the links.