Download the Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 Beta from Microsoft.

As Microsoft says:

"It’s the next gen of next-gen applications. Download the Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Team System Betas and see for yourself how they’ve been designed inside and out to give you every advantage in creating groundbreaking applications — faster and easier than ever."

Enjoy!

TFS uses MS-Build as the build engine. Ms-Build gets the code from TFS code repositiry and builds it in a temporary build location and copies the build result (binaries, web sites, etc...) to the permanent build output location refered as the DropLocation.

To customize my build project, I needed to have access to the temporary build location within in build definition and I finally found the $(BuildDirectory) property which does exactly I want.

During my search, I found Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi's blog with a list of  useful "MSBuild reserved properties".

You can also take a look at MSBuild Reserved Properties at Microsoft website.

DreamsTube.com has been selected by the "Knot a Braid of Links" project at Camel.
KaBoL is a "cool math site of the week" service to the mathematics
community offered by the Canadian Mathematical Society. It is
available at http://www.camel.math.ca/Kabol/ .

Sand Castle is a Microsoft tool which can be used to generate MSDN style documentation for .NET assemblies. It can be integrated with the TFS project build to generate the CHM document after each successful build.

I found Anthony Steele's Blog extremly helpful in this matter.

If you've worked with graphic softwares like Freehand, you should be familar with the Bezier Curve. 

According to WiKipedia, In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, a Bézier curve is a parametric curve important in computer graphics and related fields. Generalizations of Bézier curves to higher dimensions are called Bézier surfaces, of which the Bézier triangle is a special case.

I used GD graphic library and eval() fucntion is PHP to develop the Bezier class. This class takes the coordinates of 4 points needed for a bezier curve and draws it in an image. This image can be saved like any other web image. You can draw your own Curve by clicking on the following sample image.

The class code can be downloaded from my page in phpclasses.org.

I developed this class long time ago just for fun. It outputs the calendar of a given month and year including future dates as an HTML table.

The width of the calendar table is also configurable.
Leap years are handled correctly. Try it by clicking on the sample images.

Try it here! 

According to Wikipedia, A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"^[1] a property called self-similarity.  

Recently I added a post about a Silverlight application to draw Koch Curves. I re-programmed it in PHP using the PHP GD image library. The output is a Jpeg and can be saved like a normal image. You can try the application by clicking on the sample image. The only input you need to provide is the number of iterations (levels) which can be selected from the given dropdown.

You can also download the PHP code from phpclasses.org. Click on the sample image to try it yourself.

I wrote this VB.NET application about two years ago. It simulates drawing with a magnet and iron filings. You can save your drawings in a text file and reload it later.

I developed this application with having electromagnetics concepts in mind so actual formulas are used to calculate the speed and direction of the filings.

The first step is defining the canvas. Here you set the width and height of the canvas and also the width and number of filings.

Then you have the canvas ready for you with loaded iron filings as follows:

You can adjust the magnet strength by clicking on the circles (buttons) on the top left. Darker circle means stronget magnet. At the end you can save your awesome painting and reload it again in future. You can download the executable here.