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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://msmvps.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Chakravarthy's Space : v3.5</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/v3.5/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: v3.5</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>IE 8 Beta1 and SL2.0 - Today</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2008/03/06/ie-8-beta1-and-sl2-0-today.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:36:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1535452</guid><dc:creator>Chakravarthy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1535452</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1535452</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2008/03/06/ie-8-beta1-and-sl2-0-today.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;" border="0" alt="image" src="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_thumb.png" width="676" height="287" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Today, I&amp;#39;ve downloaded IE8 beta 1 as well as Silverlight 2.0 installed on my laptop. This day have seen many products released at &lt;a href="http://visitmix.com/2008/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Mix 08&lt;/a&gt; by great personalities like &lt;a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Scott Guthrie&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Bob Familiar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg" target="_blank"&gt;Guy Burstein&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;IEBlog&lt;/a&gt;, etc. According to &lt;a href="http://www.visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/IE8-Activities-With-Jane-Kim/" target="_blank"&gt;Jane Kim at an interview for Mix08&lt;/a&gt;, Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_4.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;" border="0" alt="image" src="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_thumb_1.png" width="483" height="379" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Apart of IE8.0 and SL2.0, there are other products such as&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32A3E916-E681-4955-BC9F-CFBA49273C7C&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Expression Blend 2.5 March&lt;/a&gt; CTP  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7FF7142B-84AD-4871-8E2A-EF37147AC760&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Expression Web 2&lt;/a&gt; Beta  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for VS2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve downloaded all these .. and am trying out one by one .. what about you??&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1535452" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/v3.5/default.aspx">v3.5</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Microsoft+Promotions/default.aspx">Microsoft Promotions</category></item><item><title>ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2007/12/10/asp-net-3-5-extensions-preview.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:15:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1390347</guid><dc:creator>Chakravarthy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1390347</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1390347</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2007/12/10/asp-net-3-5-extensions-preview.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/default.aspx"&gt;ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions&lt;/a&gt; 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 &lt;a href="http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/mvc/default.aspx"&gt;ASP.NET model-view-controller&lt;/a&gt; (MVC) framework, &lt;a href="http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/dyndata/default.aspx"&gt;ASP.NET Dynamic Data&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/silverlight/default.aspx"&gt;Silverlight controls for ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/adonetdataservice/default.aspx"&gt;ADO.NET Data Services&lt;/a&gt;, an Entity Framework runtime, new features for &lt;a href="http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/ajax/default.aspx"&gt;ASP.NET AJAX&lt;/a&gt; and a wide variety of &lt;a href="http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/reference/default.aspx"&gt;API References&lt;/a&gt; as hosted at ASP.NET Official site.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A9C6BC06-B894-4B11-8300-35BD2F8FC908&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;download the ASP.NET 3.5 Preview&lt;/a&gt;, which contain all the Siliverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and many more. There is a &lt;a href="http://forums.asp.net/default.aspx?GroupID=7"&gt;forum&lt;/a&gt; specially dedicated to &lt;a href="http://forums.asp.net/default.aspx?GroupID=7"&gt;ASP.NET 3.5 Preview&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://forums.asp.net"&gt;ASP.NET Forums&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1390347" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Community/default.aspx">Community</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/UserGroup/default.aspx">UserGroup</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Tips/default.aspx">Tips</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/Code/default.aspx">Code</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/v3.5/default.aspx">v3.5</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/AJAX/default.aspx">AJAX</category><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category></item></channel></rss>