Microsoft has internally incubated the dynamic languages IronPython and IronRuby for the past few years. Now Microsoft has released both languages under the open source Apache License v2.0. The community at-large can now make source contributions to any component of IronPython and IronRuby without Microsoft involvement or sponsorship.
In addition, Microsoft has announced new leadership for the Iron projects and laid the groundwork for the next version of IronPython v2.7 and IronRuby v1.9.
IronPython on CodePlex
IronRuby on CodePlex
Iron Project Announcement
jQuery Mobile is a user interface framework built on top of jQuery and designed to simplify the process of building applications that target mobile devices. This is the first alpha release of the framework, so there will surely be bugs in your platform of choice.
jQuery Mobile 1.0a1 Demos and Documentation
Announcing jQuery Mobile Alpha 1
MonoMac is a new foundation for building Cocoa applications on OSX using Mono. MonoMac is the result of years of experimentation in blending .NET with Objective-C and is inspired by the same design principles that Novell used to develop MonoTouch.
MonoMac
Visual Studio 2010 has a bug that displays partial context menus with scrollbars, even if there is sufficient room to show the entire menu. Microsoft has released patches for Visual Studio and Windows Presentation Foundation to fix this problem (you must install both patches).
Visual Studio 2010 Patch
WPF 4 Patch
Lokad.CQRS is a C# open-source project that helps to build scalable web apps and enterprise solutions for Windows Azure. CQRS solutions are:
- Secure and Reliable
- Highly Scalable
- Open for Integration and Extensible
- Cost-Effective
- Focused on business value
Lokad.CQRS on Google Code
KiGG is a Web 2.0 style social news web application developed in Microsoft supported technologies. New features in v3.0 include:
- Upgrade to Moq 3
- Migrate to DotNetOpenAuth 3.4.5
- Partial Trust support
- Entity Framework based Repositories implemented
- Multi Database support through Entity Framework (SQL Server & MySQL)
- Implementation of ADO.NET Data Services to access (read) Stories (upcoming, published, by category, by tag, by submitter and by voters)
KiGG on CodePlex
The Windows Ribbon for WinForms is a managed wrapper around Windows Ribbon Framework, a free ribbon control that Microsoft provides in Windows 7 and Vista.
This new v2.5 release contains breaking changes, so upgrade only if you are starting a new project or don’t mind updating your code. The biggest change is making events more .NET friendly. Note: you must have the Windows 7 SDK installed in order to compile the project.
Windows Ribbon on CodePlex
Details on Windows Ribbon v2.5
nopCommerce is an open-source .NET e-commerce solution. nopCommerce provides a fully customizable shopping cart that may be hosted with your current web host or nopCommerce’s hosting partners. It has everything you need to sell physical and digital goods over the Internet. nopCommerce is based on ASP.NET 4.0 with an MS SQL 2005 (or higher) backend database.
nopCommerce on CodePlex
nopCommerce Homepage
NuPack is a free, open-source package management system for the .NET platform. NuPack simplifies the process of finding and incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development. It automates the common and tedious tasks of using a package and its dependencies in a development project.
NuPack on CodePlex
Introducing NuPack
