A little late this morning due to some technical difficulties
Software
- Krypton 2.8.0 Released – Component Factory announce the latest release of their Winforms ToolKit, which now includes 21 controls, 5 components and 1 form – the best bit – these controls are all free, even for commercial use.
- Windows XP Service pack 3 RTM, public release due April 29 – Glenn Slaven talks about the upcoming XP Service Pack
- VisualSVN 1.4 Released – Version 1.4 of this Visual Studio Subversion plug-in has been released
- Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 RC1 – The Smart Cleint Software Factory April 2008 RC1 release adds Visual Studio 2008 support (at the expense of VS2005 support) and can be run side by side with the May 07 release
Information
- Parallelism and CPU Affinity – Sacha Goldshtein talks about thread scheduling and common mistakes people make by not trusting the OS to schedule for them.
- .NET Installers – C# 411 has a round-up of the .NET Installer products on the market.
- Windows Live Application Based Storage API (Experimental) Windows Live Application Based Storage API (Experimental) – Greg Duncan highlights this interesting ‘cloud’ service from Microsoft to allow centralised storage of user settings.
- Not all UDFs are bad for performance. – Alexander Kuznetsov looks at the performance of User Defined Functions in SQL Server
- Retina.NET project active again – Andres G. Vettori revives an old project and looks for contributors to this ORM project.
- WPF Command-Pattern Applied – Jani Giannoudis implements the command pattern in WPF using a Rich Text Editor as the example.
- DSL Article on InfoQ – Ayende gets an article about BOO published on InfoQ
- On API Design – Ayende talks about the Rhino Mocks API, and considers his options to refine the API.
Community
- LINQ to XML – Everything but the kitchen sinq – On 10th June, in Glasgow, UK, Colin Angus Mackay will be talking on the new XML classes and using Linq (both with and without XML)
- DDD7 Date Is Set – Guy Smith-Ferrier announces the date for the Reading, UK based Developer Developer Developer conference.
- Announcing the Alt.net London Beers event – SerialSeb is organising an experimental regular meet up event for the Alt.NET Community in London