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IE 8 Beta1 and SL2.0 - Today

Chakravarthy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:23:46 GMT

Today, I've downloaded IE8 beta 1 as well as Silverlight 2.0 installed on my laptop. This day have seen many products released at Mix 08 by great personalities like Scott Guthrie, Bob Familiar, Guy Burstein, IEBlog, etc. According to Jane Kim at an interview for Mix08, Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8.

Apart of IE8.0 and SL2.0, there are other products such as

I've downloaded all these .. and am trying out one by one .. what about you??

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Chakravarthy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:15:08 GMT

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview provides a glimpse of new, powerful functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET next year. This release delivers features that enable high-productivity data scenarios and creates the best server for rich clients. The release includes an ASP.NET model-view-controller (MVC) framework, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Silverlight controls for ASP.NET, ADO.NET Data Services, an Entity Framework runtime, new features for ASP.NET AJAX and a wide variety of API References as hosted at ASP.NET Official site.

You can download the ASP.NET 3.5 Preview, which contain all the Siliverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and many more. There is a forum specially dedicated to ASP.NET 3.5 Preview at ASP.NET Forums.

Microsoft Test Automation User Group - MTAUG.net

Chakravarthy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:28:28 GMT

A new user group that is taking into shape, specially for the teams that involve software testing. You can get to know more about this user group from http://mtaug.net or get onto http://groups.msn.com/mtaug

This group is going to be functioning in parallel with "Hyderabad .NET User Group", http://muag.net or http://groups.msn.com/dotNETUserGroupHyd

Tomorrow, 20th July 2007, is going to be the launch of the group. Am going to be there as a speaker for C# 3.0 fundamentals.. are you ?