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All posts published in August 2008

Blog of latest news, updates, and stories for developers

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image

Do you want to try Internet Explorer [1] 8 beta 2? Or do you want to test your website with XP and Internet Explorer 6? VPC Hard Disk Images [2] for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista are available at Microsoft Download Center:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Saturday, August 30, 2008


The Future of .NET Reflector (from Lutz Roeder)

Red Gate [1] will be responsible for the future development [2] of .NET Reflector [3], the popular tool authored by Lutz Roeder [4]. I’m very happy to read that Red Gate will offer this tool for free to the community. Lutz did a great job and the feedback from developers around the world brings up this tool to the top 10 tools for .NET developers [5].

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, August 20, 2008


Tahoe Board Running .NET MF 3.0

Device Solution [1] has published their first beta firmware and SDK for .NET Micro Framework 3.0 [2] beta. The firmware version includes basic support for everything on the Tahoe [3] board excluding Ethernet and PWM.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, August 19, 2008


Application and Firmware Signatures in the .NET Micro Framework

Device Solutions have decided to change the way they deal with firmware signatures on the Meridian/Tahoe board.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, August 19, 2008


GHI Electronics First .NET MF 3 Beta Firmware Update

GHI Electronics [1] has published first beta firmware update for the new .NET Micro Framework 3 [2] which is currently in beta. You can download the files and a user guide at their beta info page [3].

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, August 4, 2008