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Symbiotic Design has created a plugin for Maya, a popular 3D modeling tool, that will export 3D images as XAML for use in Windows Presentation Foundation. The latest version works with the November CTP of WinFx and includes support for textures, materials, and transforms.

Why export Maya to XAML? This will allow for 3 dimensional interactive user interfaces. It will not be long before all applications incorporate XAML in one aspect or another. This tool provides the designer with a bridge to the developer.

 

The plug-in is freely available on Highend3D.com Future versions promise to include animation, baked textures, and a Mac OS X version. 

Wah kalo gini kedepannya di perusahaan Solution Developer bakal ada lowongan baru nih, 3D Artist for UI, hahahahhaha….

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Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

Microsoft has released Office 12 Beta 1 to more than 10,000 testers in a private beta. Included in the Beta is Office 12 Professional, FrontPage 12, Groove, OneNote, Project Professional, Visio Professional, SharePoint 3, and the new Office Server product.

Beta 2, which is tentatively scheduled for March of 2006 will be available to MSDN subscribers as well.

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Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

There is a new web project template, it’s a WIKI web project template based on ATLAS

To download just click here http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/info/future/atlas_wiki/

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Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

In .NET 2.0, there is a new namespace to handle all the transaction in .NET called System.Transactions, this namespace has combined all the library for transaction in .NET including ADO.NET. The usage is also very simple and support multi-threading and transaction concurrency. I will show a simple code to handle a transaction in ADO.NET using this new namespace.

This is the code :

First we must add a reference to System.Transactions and then we must include the namespace System.Transactions by

using System.Transactions;

and then the interesting code is like this...

using(TransactionScope tScope=new TransactionScope())

{

try

{

SqlConnection con=new SqlConnection("...");

SqlCommand cmd=new SqlCommand("...",con);

con.Open();

cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

con.Close();

tScope.Complete();

}

catch

{

throw new Exception("...");

}

}

You can see that there is no need to set the transaction manually to each connection and then begin connection bla bla bla, all the transaction will be handled if the code is between the scope of using(TransactionScope tScope=new TransactionScope()), and as we can see that there is one new class call TransactionScope that will handled the transaction if the code is between this scope. And also you can see that we never called RollBack because if there is an error/exception, the RollBack will be called automatically. Cool Right... , and also using transaction in our application will be a lot more easier, but this is just the beginning, interesting??? Just start googling for some cool article about this cool namespace, ciao...

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Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

Like the title said, Visual Studio 2005 Wallpaper, cool… , just click here

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Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

SSWI, a web interface for the popular Visual Source Safe is now v1.5, di versi ini SSWI sekarang mendukung integrasi langsung dengan Visual Studio, untuk lebih lengkapnya http://www.componentworkshop.com/ , and also there is a new version of Peter's Date Package, now v1.1.10, untuk lebih lengkapnya http://www.peterblum.com/DateControls/Home.aspx

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Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience

Put this config in the web.config file

<urlMappings>

   <add url="~/Biography.aspx" mappedUrl="~/ListBooks.aspx?genre=Biography" />

   <add url="~/Fiction.aspx" mappedUrl="~/ListBooks.aspx?genre=Fiction" />

</urlMappings>

This will redirect the url to the mappedurl but still the address in your addressbar will still show the url not the mappedurl, simple but usefull

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Ricardo Alexander (TrackerX)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude