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  • ScrumWorks Pro Announced

    Danube Technologies this week announced the release of ScrumWorks Pro, an enhanced, commercially supported version of their free ScrumWorks product, created specifically to support the overwhelming customer requests for new features and professional support. The product provides support for business-value driven decision making.

  • VersionOne Agile Enterprise Toolset v6.4 Released

    VersionOne, provider of Web-based lifecycle planning and management applications, launched their V1: Agile Enterprise toolset in July, and follows up this month with release 6.4 which includes new features for improved customization, integration, and simplified planning.

  • Groovy Eclipse Plugin Updated Including Basic Code Completion

    The Groovy Eclipse plugin has been updated to make use of Groovy 1.0 and includes basic code completion among its features.

  • ILMerge: Combine Multiple .NET Assemblies Into a Single Executable

    ILMerge allows developers to combine several .NET Assemblies into a single executable. The most obvious advantage of this is in deployment scenarios where the ability to copy a single file is preferable.

  • Feature Specifications for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework

    Last week Microsoft released the feature specifications for the .NET Framework codenamed "Orcas" and the next version of Visual Studio. Among the more notable additions comes multi-targeting across versions of the .NET Framework, a feature that was noticeably absent from Visual Studio 2005.

  • LDM 3.0 Offers Analysis of Database Dependencies

    Lattix has released version 3.0 of their >LDM tool, a lightweight dependency modeling application. LDM provides a way to chart the causal links between the various pieces of an organization's architecture. This release adds support for capturing relationships between database elements and the code that communicates with them.

  • Debugging Tools: Hawkeye

    If you ever needed to take a peek at a running application, you know that the debugger can be overkill, especially if the source code isn't available. With Corneliu Tusnea's Hawkeye, you can take a peek and even tweak a few things in an easy to use GUI.

  • Tutorial: Using FitNesse with .NET

    Gojko Adzic has published a short tutorial on using FitNesse to automate acceptance tests for .NET applications.

  • Resolutions: Integrity of Code and Conduct

    At the start of each New Year, some of us stop to look backward, and actively resolve to move forward wiser than before. Scott Ambler, Liz Barnett and Kirk Knoernschild have shared with us their recommendations for working smarter in 2007, including: take a hard look at at your business objectives; equip your teams properly to maximize agility; and above all - behave yourselves!

  • Improve HTML Editing Performance in Visual Studio

    Visual Studio 2005 does a lot of things in the background, including continuous HTML validation. This can really drag down the system and make editing a pain, so Scott Guthrie has offered some tips.

  • Save Time While Installing VS SP1

    SP1 for Visual Studio can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours to install. Jon Galloway has collected some tips on reducing this time.

  • JetBrains Resharper 2.5 RTM

    Last week JetBrains released version 2.5 of their Visual Studio 2005 add-in called ReSharper. Developers use ReSharper to enhance their Visual Studio 2005 coding experience.

  • Creating a Lively User Community

    Recently on the Creating Passionate Users blog, Kathy Sierra talked about making online user forums lively and popular. Why do some mailing lists or forums take off while other languish? She offers some tips from the creators of the successful Javaranch forums.

  • Agile Project Management Tool TargetProcess 2.0 Released

    TargetProcess has released version 2.0 of their agile project management tool, which includes a variety of new features, including a customizable workflows, time tracking, simple search, and release planning with user stories.

  • Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Released Today

    The long awaited, and some say much needed, service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 has been released today.

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