VS2010 Installation Steps

Download from the following linkVs_Proweb 4.40 MB in size maximum takes 5- 10 minutes or less than that to download.


If you don't want all the components to be installed you can select the required components
These are the components that will install along with the setup

1.MS Application Error Reporting
2.VC 10.0 Runtime (X86)
3.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2
4.Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5(x86)
5.Windows Installer 4.5 update(x86)
6.Microsoft ASP.Net MVC 2 – VS 2010 tools
7.Microsoft ASP.Net MVC 2
8.Microsoft Silverlight
9.MSSL3 SDK
10.VS2010 Tools for Office Runtime Beta 2 (X 86)
11.Microsoft Development Tools for VS 2010 (X86)
12.Crystal Reports Template for VS2010
13.MS Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta
14.VS2010 Beta 2 Tools for Sql Server Compact
15.Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime V 1.0
16.Microsoft Sync Services for ADO.Net V 2.0
17.Microsoft Sync Framework Services V 1.0
18.Microsoft Sync Services SDK V 1.0
19.MS Sql Publishing Wizard 1,4
20.SqlServer System CLR Types
21.SqlServer 2008 Release2 Management Objects
22.Microsoft SqlServer 2008 Express SP1 Upgrade
23.Datatier Application Component Framework
24.Microsoft Sahrepoint Devlopement Tools
25.Data –tier Application component Project System
26.T-Sql language Service
27.Microsoft VS2010 ADO.Net Entity Framework Tools
28.Microsoft Help 3.0 Beta 2




You are required to restart the system, thrice,(after windows installar updates) where it will continue installing after restart



It took almost 6 hours for me to complete installation.

When you open VS2010 first it configures the settings to load IDE





System Requirements:
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
* Minimum 7.5 GB available HDD space
* Processor Speed 2Ghz
* 2GB RAM
VS2010 occupies 1700 MB of your system

.NET RockStar of the Month

I am happy to share the news that I have been awarded as .NET Rock star of this month Nov 2009 by Microsoft. It has been published in MSDN newsletter, MSDN Magazine sharing my success story.

I thank MicroSoft for giving me the award and I hope here after I will be contributing more for the MS Technologies and especially in .NET
I thank all of them who congratulated me and encouraged me for achieving the award

Keep watching my blog for latest updates.
Tomorrows Update on V2010 Beta ! Keep Visiting or Subscribe

Speech Recognition name space in WPF

Recently I was working on an application where I need to develop Text to Speech in a Windows Application. This application is for physically blind people where when they run the application, it need to read the text file, and convert it into voice, and should be able to listen to the voice if speakers / headphones are connected.

Thanks to WPF, it has been so simple one line of code using Speech Synthesis in WPF.All the coding is achieved by importing System.Speech.Synthesis;

If you are using VS2005, you need to install WPF(Visual Studio Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0) as sperate template
When ever we install VS2008 all these libraries comes along with installation of .NetFramework 3.5.The conculsion here is the framework versions that support the speech synthesis is 3.0 and above (ie 3.0,3.5 and 4.0)

First thing is to import the name space using System.Speech.Synthesis;
This name space is comes long with the dll System.Speech
If you don’t add that reference you get error as the type or namespace name System.Speech does not exist in the namespace system.




To include the dll go to add references and include System.Speech

public partial class SpeechObj : Window
{
SpeechSynthesizer speechObject = new SpeechSynthesizer();

public SpeechObj()
{


InitializeComponent();
}

private void btnDisplayAudio_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{

speechObject.SpeakAsync(TxtAreaResult.Text);

}
}

SqlServer BI Webcast series

SQLServerGeeks.com cordially invites you to SQL Server Business Intelligence webcast series - with 4 webcasts spread over a week. This is an excellent opportunity to get an upstart with BI on SQL Server. The series is very well crafted with 4 webcasts looking into different facets of BI. If you know nothing about BI, do not miss the first webcast: BI for you. The four webcasts are as follows:

Webcast 1: BI for you -November 6, Friday, 3 pm to 4.30 pm
Webcast 2: Create your first cube -November 9, Monday, 3 pm to 4.30 pm
Webcast 3: Extract data from the cube -November 11, Wednesday, 3 pm to 4.30 pm
Webcast 4: Learn MDX scripting -November 13, Friday, 3 pm to 4.30 pm


My Friend Amit Bansal, SQL Server MVP from India, will be delivering the entire series. He is a professional consultant, trainer, speaker & writer on SQL Server (Database Platform & Business Intelligence). He speaks at major summits and conferences of Microsoft worldwide including TechED, MCT Summits, MSDN & TechNet conferences. He has conducted more than 200 workshops on SQL Server & trained more than 3000 IT professionals.

To register, visit

Watch Billgates Live in India

Bill Gates will be in India to inaugurate the fifth year anniversary celebrations of the Microsoft Research Centre and attend a symposium on "Research and Innovation - The Keys to India's Future" on Friday, 24 July. The chief guest of the day will be the Indian Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal.

More details here

MS MVP (Again)

I am very happy to inform of all you that I have been awarded as MS MVP for 2009 in .NET/ASP.NET Category. This is the fourth consecutive year as an MVP;

What is an MVP Award?
Here is the E-mail that I received from Microsoft.

Dear Hima Vejella,


Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year.

Also in this email:

About your MVP Award Gift
How to access http://www.mvpaward.com to get your technical subscription benefits
Your MVP Identification Number
MVP Award Program Code of Conduct
The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."

Toby Richards
General Manager
Community Support Services

***********************************************************************************************************

MVP Award Gift
As a token of our appreciation, your MVP Award gift package is on its way. You will receive an e-mail message in the next 10 business days that contains your MVP Award gift package shipping information and your tracking number.

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Those who are not aware of MVP award please click here for details
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/


I am dedicating this award to cute little 'Sai' Most Valuable Child ,who came into our life last year. Now I have one more designation i.e. Most Valuable Mother :)

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 Express Edition

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) 2008 R2. The R2 release focuses on quality and usability. In addition to new features, a deep test pass was performed to improve the quality of the code and documentation.

Please visit Microsoft’s new web site to download RDS 2008 R2 Express Edition.
Channel 9 is featuring a video for the new RDS release.


RDS is a software development kit for creating robotics applications. It provides the basic infrastructure for building applications that are highly concurrent and allows them to be distributed across multiple computers in a network by using a message-passing framework. At the lowest level, programmers can write the equivalent of device drivers for sensors and actuators. However, a primary function of RDS is to orchestrate higher-level services so that they can interact with each other to implement complex behaviors.

The core components of RDS include:

Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) .NET-based concurrency and coordination library makes asynchronous application development simple, eliminating the conventional complexities of manual threading, locks, and semaphores

Decentralized Software Services (DSS) Lightweight state-oriented services architecture enabling easy composition of late-bound, loosely-coupled applications

Visual Programming Language (VPL) Simple drag-and-drop visual programming language tool makes it easy to create robotic applications.

Visual Simulation Environment (VSE) Simulate and test robotic applications using dynamic 3D graphical models and physics