I just read this over at DeveloperBuzz (thanks Brian!). DevExpress has a list bunch of controls they are giving away for free (web registration required). What is in the list? Quite a bit actually. WinForms Controls and ASP.NET Controls are included. Here is a small list of what is being offered. ASPxNavBar...

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Here is a nice article series posted by Ricket Minerich on his blog. The Garbage Collector is one of those things that I tend to get very passionate about (I guess it must just be esoteric internals or something). I thought Rick did a very good job explaining the various modes you can use with the GC...

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Unless you don't read blogs on a regular basis you have probably already seen the No Confidence debate about the Entity Framework that shipped with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Just in case you missed it here are some links about the topic: OakLeaf Systems blog Keith Patton's blog Tim Lee's Blog And the actual...

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There are a few interesting blogs from people about the changes in 3.5 SP1. Here are a few stats: Summary: # Assemblies 112 # Namespaces 919 to 935 (+16 +1.7%) # Types 39 988 to 40 513 (+525 +1.3%) # Methods 387 421 to 386 790 (-631 -0.2%) # Fields 241 567 to 246 795 (+5 228 +2.2%) # IL instructions...

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Yep, SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 is now live . This service pack includes a HUGE amount of changes from Microsoft. It really should be a new release it is so big. Download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Its a bootstrapper than then downloads a larger set and takes a while to run... Major new ADO.NET Features...

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Teligent has released the new 1.1 version of Graffiti CMS . The Graffiti v1.1 edition includes · bulk comment management · permissions functionality · the ability to delete and rename users · packages, and · more than 30 bugs fixes New Pricing The newest version of...

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I just wanted to take a moment to point out the fantastic work of Al Nyveldt on his BlogEngine.net with VistaDB work. Al is working on an implementation for BlogEngine.net that uses VistaDB under the hood (similar to how Graffiti does today). XCopy Deployment The benefits of an XCopy deployable database...

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I saw this on Dot Net Kicks today and just had to comment on it. It is a great article about using Subversion and branching . Branching code for features It is almost a given in the current development world that you will be implementing new features while performing maintenance at the same time. That...

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I was very happy to discover that our database product was mentioned in the list from Jon Davis of things Microsoft should be ashamed of (that they didn't do it first). I happen to agree with Jon on a number of issues, but I also take things a few steps further when it comes to managed code. See the...

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Microsoft has released a new PowerCommands V1.1 tool for VS 2008. This tool integrates within the IDE and gives you some very cool tools. One of my favorites is the ability to right click a file and say "Open Containing Folder" - immediate access to an Explorer window to that file. Makes it...

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