The daVinci Script is a freeware Windows Automation Tool that allows you to automate your PC activities, no matter of their complexity or area of impact.
While most automation tools only run on PC’s, the daVinci Script also supports mobile units and servers.
With the possibility of sending a portion of the script to a remote unit to be executed there, the power of the daVinci Script is almost unlimited.

What can the DaVinci Script do for you?

For example, you can instantly publish an image on your website.

With the push of a button on your mobile phone, you are able to send the last taken picture to a Windows server, where a thumbnail image is created and the picture is added to the web page.
Both image processing and web page building are done on the server side, but all the instructions are kept locally in your mobile unit, where you can change them at any time.

The daVinci Script supports the following functional areas:

1. User Interface & Debugging Tools
2. Text Processing
3. File and Folder Manipulation & MS Office interface
4. Internet Communication & E-mail
5. Image Processing
6. Time and Timer Related Functions
7. Registry Manipulation
8. Mobile Access and Control (from PC through ActiveSync)
9. System Information & Window Control
10. Remote Control

DaVinci Script screenshot

Pros & Cons
This Windows automation tool is a freeware (free of charge)!
The script is very powerful and you are able to automate about every process you could think of.
You will have to learn the script’s syntax in order to automate the desired process. The good news is that the script language is easier than Visual Basic. If you’re a beginner, you may find these great examples useful.

The download is about 3.2 MB. Available for Windows XP/Vista, Mobile 2002/2003/5/6 and Server 2000/2003/2008.

Download link for the DaVinci ScriptDownload the DaVinci Script

Publisher’s website: http://www.davinci.platsen.org

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Automate tasks in Windows with the DaVinci Script

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If you are looking for a freeware tool that will help you develop basic applications for the Windows OS, then Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition is the right choice for you.

I, for example, have started learning C# with the 2005 Edition, then moved to 2008. The primary difference between the 2005 Express Edition and the 2008 Edition is the language version and .NET version. The 2008 release supports .NET 3.5 and C# 3.0, while the old one only C# 2.0. The .NET Framework 3.5 sustains important improvements in some Microsoft technologies, such as WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).

Visual Studio toolbox

Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition is targeted towards beginner programmers who may follow a career in IT, but is also accessible to people that practice programming as a hobby. The interface of the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is clean and it’s easy to get around the application. There are many controls for you to place on your form in order to provide your users a pleasant GUI (Graphical User Interface) experience. Writing C# code is fairly easy, because Intellisense (autocompletion software from Microsoft) is there to give you a hand.

Some of you might have programmed games with the help of XNA Game Studio in Visual C# Express 2005. At the moment, you can’t use XNA with Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition… The good news is that you can have MS VC# Express 2005 and 2008 installed on the same computer, if you really want to use XNA.

All in all, Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition is a great tool that offers many possibilites to programmers of any experience. If you like the Express Edition, maybe you will be interested in buying Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition.

Visual C# Express Edition

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Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition IDE

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Notepad plus plus is free software under GPL license (General Public License). This application will fulfill the basic tasks of the ordinary notepad and more. You can use it as a source code editor for a variety of programming languages like Pascal, C/C++, C#, ASP, PHP, Javascript, Python, Ruby and so on. Notepad plus plus is established on Scintilla, another free source code editor, and was written in C++.  It runs on all versions of Windows. This software is known for its high execution speed.

Notepad plus plus offers syntax highlighting which I found very useful when coding; see the screenshot below. You can also change the colors manually in order to fit your needs. Another effective feature is the drag-and-drop support that lets you edit your documents fast. Notepad++ is available in many languages and you can also help translating, if you wish to.

Notepad++ screenshot

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Notepad++ – source code editor

InstallSimple, as it name suggests, is a simple utility that allows you to pack all the files that make up your application into one executable file (installer). The steps are quite easy to follow.

You can select the messages that the users of your application will see, the default location of the installation and even where the shortcuts will be (Desktop, Start menu, Quick Launch bar…). In order to make sure that your program is compatible with the end-user operating system, you have a System Requirements step from which you can choose the supported OS of your product. In version 1.27, CRC32 integrity check has been added, so your install kit will be fully functional, with no missing data.

InstallSimple guarantuees that your application is delivered with professionalism.

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InstallSimple 1.27 – pack application files into an installer

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