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Chrome didn't survive long...

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:31:07 GMT

I uninstalled Google Chrome after considering the potential threads for privacy

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:31:01 GMT

If you've been keeping up with the Community Technology Preview releases, there shouldn't be anything too surprising in the final release, although the overall quality should be much higher. All of the major new features have already been described on this blog or in other places, but here is a quick summary of the most significant changes:

Custom Designers in .NET 2.0

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:45:00 GMT

Nice article on creating and hosting custom designers with the .NET Framework 2.0 from the March 2006 edition of MSDN Magazine.

Cool Asp.net 2.0 RSS ToolKIT Released

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:57:00 GMT

Dimitry (frm Asp.NET team) has posted an awesome RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0. It provides a ton of great support for both consuming and exposing RSS from ASP.NET 2.0 applications, and ships with FULL SOURCE CODE Just use the RSS Datasource and bind it..and you will be able to create a simple blog post aggreegator

Transactions made easy with .NET 2.0

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:31:00 GMT

One of the more significant improvement in .NET 2.0 is in the area of transactions. Now with a single line it becomes extremely easy to support transactional code blocks using the concept of "ambient" transaction thanks to TransactionScope in the System.Transactions namespace.

Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is released

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:31:00 GMT

The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects. This release of Enterprise Library provides similar functionality to the previous releases for the .NET Framework 1.1; however, Enterprise Library has been redesigned to use the new capabilities of the .NET Framework 2.0.