Posted by Chris Alcock on 07 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: .NET, Database, Development, Morning Brew
A longer than average post today due to SQL 2008 finally being RTM’d, although it seems that Visual Studio folks should hold off untill the 11th August when the RTM of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will be made available.
Software
- SQL Server 2008 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads – SQL Server 2008 has arrived, and teh RTM release is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads now!
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release Notes – Get the low down on the SQL Server 2008 release, as there are a number of considerations when installing.
- Microsoft Sync Framework – Microsoft Sync Framework V1 is released, providing easy ways of adding sync support to applications. This release also includes Sync Services for ADO.NET allowing offline working against ADO data sources.
- SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Released – Steve Lasker announces the release of the SQL Server Compact edition V3.5 SP1, which now supports the entity framework and 64bit support. This will also be included in Visual Studio SP1
- SQL Server 2008 RTM samples are up on CodePlex now. – A new SQL Server, and we also get some new Community samples on Codeplex
- SQL Server 2008….Finally – Some key dates for the other parts of the SQL 2008 release coming in the next month.
- Pex 0.6 Released – Nikolai Tillmann announces the release of Pex 0.6, which now supports installation on 64 bit Windows. along with UI improvements and some other new features.
- IronPython – Release: 2.0 Beta 4 – The IronPython team announce the release of Beta 4 of Iron Python 2, now featuring an MSI Installer, static compilation, some performance improvements over Beta 3, and a host of other features.
- Yahoo! UI Library: YUI Compressor for .Net – A .NET port of the YUI Compressor Java Project, allowing compression of CSS and Javascript
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Community
- Bad News, Good News – stackoverflow – Stackoverflow, the new community from Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky has entered beta, and there is a form you can fill in to get onto the beta linked from this post.
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