WebMatrix is a new web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for website development. Start from open source web applications, built-in web templates or just start writing code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple and best of all, free.
Microsoft has released a WebMatrix refresh that addresses some of the top customer issues that have been reported since launching in January.
The Unicode® Consortium has published the final text of the core specification for Unicode 6.0. The Unicode 6.0 core specification includes information on scripts newly encoded in Unicode 6.0, as well as many updates and clarifications to other sections of the text. The release of the core specification completes the definitive documentation of the Unicode Standard, Version 6.0
In Version 6.0, the Unicode standard grew by 2,088 characters. Over 1,000 of these characters are symbols used for text exchange on mobile phones. The Unicode Standard now also includes the recently created official symbol for the Indian rupee. After computers and mobile phones update to Version 6.0, the rupee sign will be available for use like the $ or € now.
In addition, this version adds many CJK Unified Ideographs in common use in China, Taiwan, and Japan, as well as characters for African language support, including extensions to the Tifinagh, Ethiopic,and Bamum scripts. Three scripts are supported for the first time: Mandaic, Batak, and Brahmi.
Team Explorer Everywhere is an Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server. Service Pack 1 is now available for download. Improvements include:
Microsoft has shipped its first update to Windows Phone 7. This update updates the update system (say that 3 times fast) to get ready for the highly-anticipated copy & paste update, which is expected to arrive in March. This update will roll out gradually to all Windows Phone users via Zune software on Windows or Windows Phone 7 Connector on Mac.
An update is now available for SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0, a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs) available in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 and above. This version of SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 adds support for SQL Azure.
The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is a free, centralized code sample library provided by the Microsoft Community team. Their goal is to provide typical code samples for all Microsoft development technologies.
The team listens to developers’ pains in MSDN forums, social media and various developer communities. They write code samples based on developers’ frequently asked programming tasks, and allow developers to download them with a short code sample publishing cycle. Additionally, the team offers a free code sample request service. This service is a proactive way for our developer community to obtain code samples for certain programming tasks directly from Microsoft.
Microsoft has stated that its Windows Phone 7 marketplace will reject any apps that use the GPL (GNU General Public License) and similar licenses. As stated in Article 5 of the Application Provider Agreement:
“The Application must not include software, documentation, or other materials that, in whole or in part, are governed by or subject to an Excluded License, or that would otherwise cause the Application to be subject to the terms of an Excluded License.”
ILSpy is an open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler. Development started after Red Gate announced that .NET Reflector would no longer be free at the end of February 2011. ILSpy features include:
Microsoft has released an update to the Silverlight 4 runtime. There is no change to the Silverlight 4 SDK. This update improves Silverlight network latency by up to 90% and fixes bugs including:
NuGet is a free, open-source, developer-focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development. Most of the work in this v1.1 release is focused on bug fixes.
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