Windows PowerShell is an extensible command-line shell and associated scripting language from Microsoft. PowerShell integrates with the Microsoft .NET Framework and provides an environment to perform administrative tasks.
PowerShell MVP Dr. Tobias Weltner has released a FREE 567-page e-book “Mastering PowerShell.”
TestApi is a policy-free API library, delivering Microsoft testing technology in an easy-to-use package. It can be used within the major testing tools (VSTS, NUnit, xUnit, etc.) to automate testing for desktop and browser applications on Windows.
The new version 0.3 introduces some fairly significant changes and new features:
NHibernate is the .NET port of the Java Hibernate, which provides Object/Relational mapping to persist objects in a relational database.
The most requested feature for NHibernate for the last few years has been Linq support, and it’s now available.
NHibernate Linq 1.0 is based on the existing, proven Linq provider in NHibernate Contrib. This Linq release supports just about anything that you can do with the criteria API. It does not support group joins or subqueries in select clauses, since they aren’t supported by the criteria API. NHibernate’s Linq support has been tested in production for a few years, and most people find it more than sufficient for their needs.
Microsoft has announced the business model and pricing for its Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
Windows Azure has a consumption-based pricing model, allowing partners and customers to pay only for the services that they consume.
Microsoft Expression Studio 3 is now available for a free 60 days trial. It’s a suite of professional design tools that give you the freedom to make your vision real—whether you’re designing for standards-based Web sites, rich desktop experiences, or Silverlight.
Design compelling user interfaces for the Web and desktop using Microsoft Expression, tools purpose built to compliment the industry leading development tool Visual Studio.
Prototype your ideas rapidly, engage and interact with your customers and get your projects off to a flying start, then immediately bring your prototypes to life without throwing anything away.
The suite includes Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design and Expression Encoder.
Expression Studio 3 Free Trial
Top 10 Features of Expression Studio 3
ImmDoc .NET is a command-line utility for generating HTML documentation from a set of .NET assemblies and XML files created by the compiler. It’s developed in C#. The main features/benefits include:
* Simple
* Light-weight
* Supports .NET Framework 2.0
* Can generate HTML and CHM documentation
* Uses Mono.Cecil
The distinguishing feature of ImmDoc.NET is that unlike Sandcastle or NDoc, ImmDoc.NET doesn’t require you to have all referenced assemblies.
CodePaste.NET is a new public code pasting site that allows you to paste and link code from social network sites like Twitter and Facebook or chat and IM applications like Skype or Messenger. The idea is that these social network or chat clients work well for interactive discussion, but they don’t allow enough space to post even the shortest snippets of code for all participants to see.
A lot of Twitter traffic deals with discussions around code or code concepts, so a place to share and view code is very useful. So rather than squeezing code snippets into these clients, you can post it on the the CodePaste.NET site and then link to the snippet. As opposed to other code pasting sites, CodePaste.NET is more specific to .NET developers, providing syntax highlighting and the ability to apply comments on snippets.
Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree. The code will be released under the GNU General Public License v2 (not GPL v3) licensing agreement. Microsoft says this is a demonstration of its commitment to improving the integration of Windows and Linux.
Unlike with Windows, Linux drivers are considered part of the operating-system kernel. The Linux Foundation states “the Linux model is that IHVs (independent hardware vendors) get the source code for their driver accepted into the mainline kernel.” This is necessary to ensure that Linux runs properly on all hardware.
Microsoft Popfly is a set of online visual tools for novice programmers and end-users to build Web pages, applications and games. This was Microsoft’s attempt to bring programming to the masses, similar to Hypercard on the Macintosh, or the original Visual Basic on Windows before it became a real (complicated) object-oriented language under .NET.
But this fly lived for only two years. Microsoft has just announced that on August 24, 2009, the Popfly service will be discontinued and all sites, references, and resources will be taken down. At that time, access to your Popfly account, including any games and mashups that you have created, will be discontinued.
Silverlight is a Web application development framework similar to Adobe Flash. Microsoft has just released Silverlight 3, a major update that delivers many new features including:
Download Silverlight 3
Silverlight Community
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