Downloads and Utilities for Feb (DirectX, Multipoint, WPF/E, Ink canvas, Phonetic Input Tool)

IL Merge

"ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly. Also, if the primary assembly has a strong name, and a .snk file is provided, then the target assembly is re-signed with the specified key so that it also has a strong name.

ILMerge is packaged as a console application. But all of its functionality is also available programmatically. Note that Visual Studio 2005 does allow one to add an executable as a reference, so you can write a C# client that uses ILMerge as a library. If you are using Visual Studio 2003, you must use the v1.1 version of ILMerge and rename it to be a dll in order to use it as a reference."

Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta)

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The Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) provides an intuitive method that allows users to type English letters that are mapped to a phonetic scheme using a QWERTY keyboard, and then converts these English letters into complex script languages and various encoding formats. The Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) is very useful for bilingual and multilingual users who normally use a QWERTY keyboard and would like to type English letters to compose messages or documents in their native India language. Users who speak but do not write a language can use the phonetic schemes to write in that language. The Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) supports the following 11 India languages in this release.

• Bengali
• Gujarati
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Konkani
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Punjabi
• Sanskrit
• Tamil
• Telugu

The following features make the Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) easy to use:

• The Microsoft Phonetic Input Tool (Beta) utilizes a QWERTY keyboard--no special hardware is required
• Languages can be easily selected from the standard Windows Language bar"

This is one of the very useful utility for Indian Languages _ Thanks Microsoft and Team

Office Accounting 2007 SDK and Office Accounting Express 2007

Office accounting 2007 express which is a free software to use and manage small and home business accounting needs. It's innovative and good. It also supports eBay and Payment through banks and stuff.

Very good and handy software for free

Ink and Custom Video Rendering to Video in .net Framework 3.0 Labs

VB Lab Download
C# Lab Download
Using Ink Analysis with WPF

The objective of this lab is to demonstrate how to create an application in which you can add ink to video. You will also learn how to add custom rendering of ink to highlight the ink on your video. Finally, you learn how to record the ink added to the video and play it back as it was written while the video is playing


WPF/E CTP (aka Flash Killer)

This is the most important piece of WPF and Microsoft move in RIA market. If it works, it will effect the flash market heavily. Microsoft need Express version of this tool available for download for student and other if they really want to make it happen.

Also available is the SDK for WPF/E

Snip IT Add on for IE

Cool utility for IE to allow text from any page to be emailed using Yahoo mail, gmail, hotmail, outlook. Very handy utility for blogger


Direct X 10

This is one of the most important piece of software in WPF and a good competition for Open GL. Direct X 10 holds a lot of promises and somehow the gaming platform future of windows depends on it.

"Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX includes security and performance updates, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX APIs"

Following download are available for Direct X

DirextX End User runtime

DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer

DirectX Software development Kit


Windows Multipoint SDK

Seems like one of the technology that came out of Microsoft research. The aim Multipoint is to allow multiple mouse on a single machine, giving students a new way to learn together. I believe there can be lot of enterprise scenario which can be achieved through this technology. If somebody get use of it and integrates this technology with Expression suit, it would make a hell of a application for multiple designer to work together. Let see if somebody can get their brains around it. Good utility software