Friday, October 24, 2008

* Microsoft DevLabs for Innovation

Microsoft has launched an exclusive site to showcase the research projects focused on developers @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/devlabs

Currently its showcasing the following projects. They are ready to be tried and so can be downloaded.

image Microsoft Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications.

image Small Basic is a simple and easy programming language with a friendly environment that provides a cool and fun way of learning programming. From making turtles animations to running a slide show on the desktop, Small Basic makes programming natural and effortless.

image Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. From a parameterized unit test, it automatically produces a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs.

image CHESS is a concurrency testing tool for finding and reproducing concurrency Heisenbugs in your code. CHESS can find assertion violations, deadlocks, livelocks, data-races, and memory-model errors. CHESS works both for managed and for unmanaged code.

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