There's a community project going on at Codeplex called WPF Toolkit that gives you a free themed DataGrid for WPF projects with 7 themes available.
“The WPF Toolkit is a collection of WPF features and components that are being made available outside of the normal .NET Framework ship cycle. The WPF Toolkit not only allows users to get new functionality more quickly, but allows an efficient means for giving feedback to the product team. Many of the features will be released with full source code as well. Over time, some of these features may be moved into the .NET Framework, based...
Small Business Server was launched yesterday, and program manager Dean Parron, from the Small Business Server team blog, posted the following:
"On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server 2008 software has been finalized! Today both SBS Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing, which means we begin the process of finalizing international versions, creating media, building packaging, delivering the product to distribution channels and handing it off to our OEM partners, so it will be widely available by our November 12 launch. (More information about launch will come in the future.)"
Windows Small...
There were a number of changes to the Entity Framework and the UI designer between Visual Studio 2008 SP1/ .NET Framework 3.5 Beta and the RTM that require updates to existing source code. These breaking changes are listed below, courtesy of the ADO.NET teamblog. These include the mitigation for adjusting to the new behavior, and a side by side comparison of Beta code and RTM code.
Provider Changes
1. The Function property of DbFunctionCommandTree is renamed to EdmFunction.
Affects:
- Provider writers
Mitigation:
- Replace ".Function" wtih ".EdmFunction"
SP1 Beta Code:
funcTree.Function
SP1 RTM Code:
funcTree.EdmFunction
2. DbExpression, DbAggregate and DbModificationClause no longer have...
It's finally here. The .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are now available for download. Amongst bug fixes and improvements there are severalnew technologies available, one of them I've been talking about in past posts, ADO.NET Entity Framework.
Not that i'm giving the common blog reader any news, but this post aims to list all the new features of SQL Server 2008, and tries to explain each and everyone of them. It's going to be a work in progress, with links and content being added as I post in the blog. Think of this as a little SQL Server 2008 "reference". Here goes:
Security
Transparent Data Encryption
External Key Management
Data Auditing - This is one the core features of SQL Server 2008. With it, you'll have:
The introduction of first class 'AUDIT' objects.
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SQL Server 2008 has been recently released. Whether you are an MSDN subscriber or not, you may or may not be able to download the full version. Either way, start getting those bytes now, and you can rest assured you'll be in for a treat.
Here's the press release:
“REDMOND, Wash. - Aug. 6, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform. This version of SQL Server provides powerful new capabilities such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing,...