Download from here.

Only in XPS format. But anyway, we have the specs

Updated with new features like connecting to databases without SPS installed or the RecycleBin functionality.

Windows PowersHell 1.0 RTW

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Download
• Installation & Deployment

The excellent utility for tracking asp.net development by Nikhil Kothari has been updated. Now it supports UpdatePanel and JSON requests.

Release notes.

Java is GPLed!

Let’s try this out!

It’s a common problem, that your viewstate is bloating up under heavy usage (complex data editing scenarios with multiple grids enabling editing, etc). ASP.Net 2.0 comes up with a handy solution for such cases by letting you easily redefine your PageStatePersister in your page with (under .NET 1.0/1.1 this could be done using  LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium and SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium):

    protected override PageStatePersister PageStatePersister
    {
        get
        {
            return new SessionPageStatePersister(this);
        }
    }

After changing this (and applying a custom base page for all my pages with:

(for this to work it is needed to derive all your aspx pages from that page!)

I got the result from ~3500 viewstate bytes to ~1500 viewstate bytes. But what can I do with that 1500 bytes? What is in it? I started ViewStateDecoder 2.1, and checked into it, what I saw was surprising: all usual viewstate data was wiped out, but there were still the controlstate! So it’s not the same as the PersistanceMedium calls as they were formerly… How to get rid of that 1500 byte? After using the Reflector a bit I found out, that all depends on a browser capatibility called RequiresControlStateInSession, when it’s set to true, than the controlstate is persisted into the session as well. Last question was: how to let the system know, that my browser has the RequiresControlStateInSession capatibility? It’s easy with the new syntax for browserCaps:

  <system.web>
    <browserCaps>
      <case>
        RequiresControlStateInSession=true
      </case>
    </browserCaps>
  </system.web>

And the day is saved, now I have a viewstate of a 57 bytes, which contains a pair of a boolean and an ID

Fixes/handles some common migration problems.

Nov CTP for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 (for Excel and Visio)

• Windows XP SP2 with IE6 and IE7 Readiness
• Windows 2003 R2
• This one may be useful as well: Exchange 2007

An interesting article to connect all these paradigms together.

Download this handy tool.

Not a final version, only a CTP, but with promising results.

New VSIP version is out, new samples are included as well as sandcastle.

Now it’s integrated into MS.com. Mark’s home and the newsletter is moved as well. Btw, some parts of the site is shut down (like source codes, Mark’s examples, win9x tools, dos tools).

VSTO just as it should. + Demo

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition RC1
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta
• How to install
• Connectivity Tools for SQL Server Mobile, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005
• SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Books Online

• .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components
• Windows SDK for Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0
• Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation)
• Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP
• Release notes

Everything you ever needed to connect the twos. You should check out the new project (creating team site definitions with provisioning, etc) and item types (adding custom lists with events or custom content type was never this easy) as well, but I think the best is the site/list reverse engineering tool called SPSolGen.

Former - latter. If you are following atlas’s life, you know what is ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Futures November CTP, it has been released as well.

Team Foundation Sidekick add-in (formerly Team Build Sidekick add-in) 1.1

It’s much more complex than you would ever think. I hope that there will be some support tool for this.

A new star in the web2 era… To know what is it…

So those who bet for a date earlier than nov30 are the winners
Official press

On November 30., IT will change

The (presumably) last maintaining release for 1.0 has left the hands of nhibernate devs:
Core - Release notes - Policy
Contrib - Release notes