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Free Downloads of April

The last month was pretty rich in terms of the free downloads I found available online, so, thought I needed to list some of those, and clearly got busy/late for that! however, I thought I'll also drop the list in case someone missed any.

• Form Scott Guthrie (AKA: ASP.NET Hero)'s Blog:
  • Source Code for the Built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Providers! This really a BIG hit. The source code for the whole set of ASP.NET 2.0 providers downloadable for free, and also, Scoots points to 130+ pages of awasome pages walking through the code. SWEET ;)
  • ASP.NET Connections Tips and Tricks Slides+Demos: This a great presentation Scott gave. In which he tells many great hints and some little work arounds (check the page for the presentation topics). Not to miss for any ASP.NET 2.0 developer!  (direct download)
  • Spell Checker for HTML and ASP.NET Pages: Clearly a very cool blugin for VS 2005 by Mikhail Arkhipov, a great member of the Visual Studio Web Tools Team. (Scott's Anouncement)
  • Web Application Projects (RC1): The release cordinate 1 (not CTP, I think this is a “semi-final“, or “final, with high probebility of need for upadtes“). In case you don't don't know aboout the Web Application Projects template (well, it's a bit more than just a template), this is a template to create ASP.NET 2.0 websites with the same project model we had in VS 2003 (this means for example having the whole site compiled into a single DLL, and compiling only the files included in the prject *.csproj / *.vbproj file). (Scott's site for Web Application Projects - Scoot's Announcement for RC1).
  • XHTML Validaton Module for ASP.NET 2.0: Quote from Scott's post: “They've recently published a very cool XHTML Validation module for ASP.NET 2.0 that allows you to easily identify and catch any non-XHTML markup with your application“
  • You shouldn't miss this briliant blog. I wish to see Scoot at least for only once in my life myself! (April 2006 Archive in Scott's Blog)
• Google Stuff:
  • Google Calendar API: Simply Google API for Google Calendar (available in combination with Gmail). (C# Help - direct download)
  • Google Scetch Up: A simple yet cool 3 D modeling program (direct download - video tutorials)
• SQL Server 2005 Downloads:
  • SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1: Quickly moved from CTP to final. This is the same installer for both Express and any other eidition of SQL Server 2005. (prevously posted that, but, I'd miss it in this list if I haven't got it here!)
  • SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with advanced services: Quickly moved from CTP to final. This is the typical SQL Server 2005 Express, but with SQL Server Management Studio Express, reporting services, and Full-Ttext search integtrated. (more)
  • SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit: Quickly moved from CTP to final. This is a collection of development tools, like Connectivity Components, Business Intelligence Development Studio, Management Studio Express, and a Software Development Kit. (more)
• ATLAS April CTP: I mentioned this before, and listed som cool resources about it, check them out.
  • ATLAS Control Toolkit: A list pf great web controls based on ATLAS (released from MS too). I showed some resources for them in the last post. (Expect a refresh soon with even more controls!)
    • Presentation and Demo: This is from the online talks about the toolkit by Shawn Burke.
• * Update: Virtual Server 2005 R2 - Enterprise Edition! Yes, this is really FREE! (SP1 BETA download link and availability details)

At last, some more outdated stuff that were previously announced by end of March, but, couldn't miss putting them here:

• * Update: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar BETA2: Basicly, a set of handy tools for inspecting DOM, viewing your site in different ways (w/ or w/o: CSS, JS, images, etc, and/or, in different sizes [like resolutions]) and more. VERY helpful.
• RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 - Updated Version: Toolkit by Dmitry on the ASP.NET Team. This is exactly what I at least would love to have when I think about consuming (and more importantly to me, exposing) RSS feeds. Again, Just awasmoe! (Scott Guthrie: announcement, tutorial - direct download)
• Visual Studion 2005 Express! Wait.. If you noticed, Visual Studio 2005 Express was originally to donwload for one year only, and then use later for unlimited time, which is a weird policy really. Now, it's available to freely download and use all forever.
• Some bloody cool Enterprise Library v2 Extensions: Discover them yourself! ;-)

Sorry for getting those too late. It just work load, and exams are geting damn closer too :(. I'll try not to be always outdated in the future, if I amange to :-S.

* Thanks to Robin Edwards, Charles Aunger for reminding me to submit the highlighted updates parts.

Print | posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 6:49 AM | Filed Under [ ASP.NET SQL Server ]