We decided to join the Imagine Cup 2010 - Windows Phone 7 "Rockstar" Award.
In the following posts both Oana and I will describe features of the new Windows Phone platform which will probably come out in the fall of 2010.

Hawkeye is a Windows Phone application for uploading and sharing your travel pictures with friends and family. You need a Windows Live account and, if you want, a Twitter account.

Take a look at the following screenshots:

A list of your trips, with a thumbnail to the left of each trip

All trip pictures in one place. You can take a new camera picture or upload an existing picture

Uploading a picture to SkyDrive and posting a Twitter update

Oana & Arthur

Visual Studio 2010 offers a variety of new features, one of them I am particularly fond of is the extended IntelliSense. IntelliSense is pretty much as good as it gets in Visual Studio 2008 but Visual Studio 2010 pushes things a bit further.

There are two really neat new features in IntelliSense, the first one is the Pascal capital letter recognition which means that if you would like to find, let's say, the IsPostBack page property you can type IPB and you get a list of members with those three capital letters in their name. The second feature is the Camel case recognition which means that if you search for a key word let's say, Post, you will get all the members that have the word Post in their name. 

Take a look at the two screenshots below:

Pascal capital letter recognition

Camel case

Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 are going to be launched in Las Vegas, in about 7 hours.

Follow the link for details: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/watch-it-live

© Microsoft

I've read this morning about the release dates of VS 2010 Beta 2 and also the final release of VS 2010.

As the wesite claims, the Beta 2 release is already out there for MSDN subscribers and it will be available from October 21, this year, for all the others.

The release will come out next year, March 22.

You can read the article here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/visual_studio_2010_second_beta_packaging/