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Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio
Windows Live Dev has released the Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio, a set of VS add-ins allowing developers to incorporate Windows Live services into web applications developed with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
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Relationship Between Tools and Agile Software Development
Agile software development can be done effectively with the help of right tools for the job. Kent Beck, recently published a paper exploring the relationship between tools and Agile software development.
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Tasktop 1.2: Enhanced Time Tracking/Reporting and a New, Free Version
Tasktop Technologies, the company which created Eclipse Mylyn and leads its development, released Tasktop version 1.2 today, which is based upon the new Mylyn 3.0 APIs. InfoQ interviewed Tasktop President & CTO Mik Kersten to learn more about this release and what changes it brings for end users.
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Eclipse Foundation Leverages Universal Data Collector to Learn About Users
Eclipse 3.4 includes a new opt in Universal Data Collector that tracks information about bundle events, workspace events, and commands.
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Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework
The folks at Google have recently open-sourced their xUnit-based testing framework for C++ development. The framework is said by project developer Zhanyong Wan to have been in use internally at Google for years by thousands of their C++ developers.cc
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PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V Posted on CodePlex
James O'Neill from Microsoft has posted the PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V Beta 0.9 on CodePlex. The library currently contains 66 functions used to manage the virtual machines running in Hyper-V.
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TargetProcess Offers a Free 5-User Community Edition
TargetProcess has released a free 5-user Community Edition of its Agile project management software. The Community Edition contains the same features as the full edition of the product with two limitations: a maximum 5 users, and no support.
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Sandcastle Source Released
Last month there was an uproar over hosting Sandcastle, a closed-source tool, on the open source site CodePlex. In response to customer demands, Microsoft has decided to release the source code for Sandcastle.
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Using 7-Zip's Compressing/Decompressing Functionality from a .NET Application
Eugene Sichkar, a software developer, has published a project containing a .NET/C# interface to the 7-Zip archiving application on Code Project. 7-Zip is an open source application used to archive/un-archive files in various formats.
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JSR-305: Annotations for Software Defect Detection
Bill Pugh, the creator of FindBugs, is leading the work on JSR-305 which aims to introduce a set of standard annotations for software defect detection.
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JXInsight 5.6: Problem Diagnostic, Transaction Analysis and App Mgmt
Last week JInspired announced the release of JXInsight 5.6, its enterprise Java performance monitoring, problem diagnostic, transaction analysis and application management solution. InfoQ spoke to William Louth, the JXInsight product architect, get the inside scoop.
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Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at PDE (Plugin Development Environment)
As part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release which is scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ will cover a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the subproject is PDE (Plugin Development Environment), which is releasing version 3.4. InfoQ spoke with Chris Aniszczyk, PDE Technical Lead and Principal Consultant at Code9, to learn more about PDE and what it provides.
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Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at RAP (Rich Ajax Platform)
As part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release which is scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ will cover a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the subproject is RAP (Rich Ajax Platform), which is releasing version 1.1. InfoQ spoke with Jochen Krause to learn more about RAP and what it provides.
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Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at Equinox p2 (Provisioning Platform)
As part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release which is scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ will cover a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the subproject is Equinox p2 (Provisioning Platform), which is a framework for provisioning Eclipse-based applications. InfoQ spoke with Jeff McAffer and Pascal Rapicault to learn more about p2 and what it provides.
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Microsoft has Pulled Project Sandcastle for Open Source Violations
In response to community pressure, Microsoft has removed project Sandcastle from their CodePlex website. This is a temporary move while they contemplate Sandcastles future.