Microsoft has released an alpha version of its technical reference documentation tool: Sandcastle . Sandcastle is presented as a "documentation compiler for managed class libraries". The alpha is available for download . The following features are advertised: Works with or without authored...

Microsoft has released an alpha version of its technical reference documentation tool: Sandcastle . Sandcastle is presented as a "documentation compiler for managed class libraries". The alpha is available for download . The following features are advertised: Works with or without authored...

Summary I just released a new version of the IE7 Standalone Launcher . Due to changes in this beta release of IE7, a simple batch file alone won't cut it. You can grab a zip package (two batch files, two reg files) on the new tools.veloc-it.com site. Finally! Well, it took me long enough. I've...

I've just noticed that the Visual Studio "Servicing" web page has been updated with new release dates for the Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 service packs: Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 to ship August 15, 2006 Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 ships Q3, 2006 Keep in mind that these dates...

I've just noticed that the Visual Studio "Servicing" web page has been updated with new release dates for the Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 service packs: Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 to ship August 15, 2006 Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 ships Q3, 2006 Keep in mind that these dates...

Microsoft listened to our requests . It has announced its upcoming tool for generating MSDN-like documentation from your .NET code. The codename is Sandcastle and the tool is presented as a "Documentation Compiler". It should work the same way NDoc does, except it will support .NET 2. The first...

Microsoft listened to our requests . It has announced its upcoming tool for generating MSDN-like documentation from your .NET code. The codename is Sandcastle and the tool is presented as a "Documentation Compiler". It should work the same way NDoc does, except it will support .NET 2. The first...

How many tools do you think we can use for .NET development? Well, more than 905 tools (including 292 libraries) according to what I have referenced in SharpToolbox so far! How many do you actually know? ;-) I started collecting this information more than three years ago now... It's been a while since...

Just found this on digg.com : http://www.brianketelsen.com/articles/2006/06/20/progress-isnt-just-for-breakfast-anymore It's a Live CD with all the stuff you need to try out Ruby On Rails! This looks like it could be a pretty slick way to try out Rails. Maybe even better would be to create a VMWare Player...

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main stream. His article has imaginary Java samples...