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 Friday, November 25, 2005
Commerce Starter Kit 1.0.2 Released!

Version 1.0.2 of the Commerce Starter Kit was released today with the following updates:

  • Added support for PaymentsStandard
  • Fixed the LocationSelector so it properly shows saved country/state
  • Further fixed localization
  • Added a log viewer for the admin section
  • Created an IPN/PDT handler for PaymentsStandard
  • Added the API dlls to the web root
  • Added the WSDLs for the PayPal API to the Commerce.PayPal project
  • Fixed DirectCheckout error using foreign credit cards

Source: CommerceStarterKit.org


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 Thursday, November 24, 2005
New Book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core ReferenceDino Esposito's latest book Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference is here! The 800-page book covers fundamentals of ASP.NET which include pages, controls, security, data binding, data source controls, caching, state management, intrinsics, a bit of internals, themes, profile, and ADO.NET.

Dino has revealed that he is currently writing the second volume of the book which will feature more advanced topics. Read his blog post here.


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 Wednesday, November 23, 2005
FreeTextBox 3.1.1 Now Includes ASP.NET 2.0 Version

Creator of FreeTextBox (a popular ASP.NET HTML Editor), John Dyer has announced the release of FreeTextBox 3.1.1.  Besides bug fixes, native ASP.NET 2.0 version is now included.


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 Monday, November 21, 2005
NDoc for .NET 2.0

Jonas Lagerblad has posted an improved .NET 2.0 port of NDoc 1.3.1 to generate decent output for the MSDN and MSDN2 documenters.  There is C# generics output support but Jonas did hint that there is still room for enhancement. Do check it out!


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 Sunday, November 20, 2005
Just Out: NUnit 2.2.3

NUnit team member Charlie Poole recently announced the release of NUnit 2.2.3 unit-testing framework.  With this release, NUnit can now be installed and run under .NET 2.0 and used in conjunction with Visual Studio 2005.

Read the release notes at:
http://nunit.com/testweb/index.php?p=releaseNotes&r=2.2.3

Download NUnit from:
http://nunit.sf.net/  (SourceForge)

Related:
To learn concepts and techniques on test-driven development for .NET, get this book:
Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET by James W. Newkirk and Alexei A. Vorontsov

Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET


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 Saturday, November 19, 2005
Featured ASP.NET 2.0 Site: EventMingle.com

EventMingle.comBuilt entirely using the ASP.NET 2.0 platform and Visual Studio 2005, EventMingle.com is a social networking service covering the trade show/conference space.

Software developer, Scott Hunter wants to know what you think of this site. Check it out!


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Debug And Release Builds in ASP.NET 2.0

Some of you must have been wondering why is there only "Debug" build for web projects in Visual Studio 2005. Scott Allen has a nice post on how debug and release builds work in ASP.NET 2.0.  Points to take home are that VS 2005 knows nothing about compiling a web application and that the ASP.NET platform takes care of the compilation responsibility now.

Scott also described how the new Web Deployment Projects changes the build scenarios for VS 2005.


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 Friday, November 18, 2005
Here Comes GridViewGirl.com!

DataGrid Girl Marcie Robillard makes a comeback...this time as GridView Girl! (GridViewGirl.com)

Back in the .NET 1.x days, Marcie rocked the .NET world with a distinctly pink-colored site focusing on the DataGrid.  The "upgrade" to GridViewGirl seems natural with the release of .NET 2.0.  Let's look forward to seeing fresh GridView resources from Marcie in her new site.


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 Thursday, November 17, 2005
Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 - November CTP now available!

Early last week, Tom Hollander announced the availability of November CTP of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0. Two notable ommissions in this release were highlighted; in particular, the configuration tool and the Cryptography Application Block.  A December final release is expected.


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