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Visual Studio 2010 IDE New Features

How Do I: Quick Lap Around the Visual Studio 2010 IDE New Features

This video demonstrates several of the new IDE enhancements provided by Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, including Intellisense Completion Mode, Highlight References, Quick Search (and Navigate To), Generate From Usage, Zoom Box Selection, Call Hierarchy, S

Text to Speech Application

Today we will make a text to speech application which will read aloud the the text we enter.

We will start by opening a new project in Visual Studio 2010(or previous versions). We will name our project "TextToSpeech" as shown in the picture below.


We will now add a Label, Text box and a button. Change the text property of label to "Please enter text and I will Speak it for you". Change the multiline property of the text box to true and change the text of the button to "Speak".
Now go to project menu and click Add Reference. Now navigate to the COM tab of the add reference dialog box and select "Microsoft Speech Object Library". Click OK.
Double click on the button to generate a default event handler. Now right code.

VB.net
Dim speech As New SpeechLib.SpVoice
speech.Speak(TextBox1.Text, SpeechLib.SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFDefault)

C#
SpeechLib.SpVoice speech = New SpeechLib.SpVoice;
speech.Speak(TextBox1.Text, SpeechLib.SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFDefault);

Now Debug the the program to make sure it works properly. write any thing in the text box and click the speak button and the computer will speak what you enter.

Silverlight 5 announced - Silverlight Firestarter 2010

Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie

Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, unveils Silverlight 5, further advancing capabilities in the areas of premium media experiences and business applications at the Silverlight Firestarter 2010 event in Redmond, WA on Dec 2nd 2010

Visual Studio Loadfest

On 4th December many developers of karachi gathered at FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences for Visual Studio Loadfest. This event was a series of Informative Sessions. It was about the new IDE(Integrated Development Environment), Visual Studio 2010.

Agenda:

What’s New in VS 2010 Ultimate - Adil Ahmed Mughal:
This session was about the new features of Visual Studio 2010 such as Extensiblity, Navigation options, multi-targeting and WPF Editor.





Application Life cycle Management - Jibran Jamshed:
It started with what an application needs to diliver in order to be successful. The sesssion then focused on TFS(Team Foundation Server).





Better Debugging with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - Munir Usman:
This was about the advance debuging options and techniques built in Visual Studio 2010.

In the end I would like to thank all the speakers for their time and knowledge they shared with us. All of the sessions included demos which resulted in a better understanding of the topics.

Recording of my interview

This is the recorded version of my interview conducted by Metro one TV Channel. The interview was conducted because I became MCTS(Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) and MCP(Microsoft Certified Professional) of .NET framework 4.0. Please give comments and Suggestions.

The download-able version of the video can be downloaded from here: http://www.multiupload.com/GHN25BW2DR

Microsoft Surface Toolkit

Microsoft has released Microsoft Surface Toolkit. This toolkit includes controls, APIs, templates, documentation, and sample code for WPF on Windows Touch applications and a way for developers to prepare for the next version of Microsoft Surface. This toolkit can be downloaded from this link.
Do not forget to watch the video tutorial on channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/larrylarsen/surface-toolkit-for-windows-touch.