Sam Gentile's Blog

Software Development Tools

• .NET Reflector 6.0 - Lutz himself announced trhat Red Gate Software released a new version of Reflector including .NET 4 support. Pro version adds debugging in Visual Studio. Download here
• ReSharper 5 Beta 2 Released - Great news - ReSharper has released a Beta 2 with support for Visual Studio 2010 RC, Extended ASP.NET MVC functionality, Stable structural search and replace, and multiple usability improvements
• NDepend v3 RC available - Patrick Smacchia announces the first release candidate of NDepend 3. Existing customers will find that their V2 license will work with the pro edition of this release candidate, and new users will be able to get a limited time free trial for the V3 Pro
• AutoMapper for Silverlight 3.0 Alpha - Jimmy Bogard announces an alpha level release of AutoMapper for Silverlight 3 which supports the majority of AutoMapper features (all except those that have no meaning in Silverlight), and Jimmy talks about the process he went through to get AutoMapper going on Silverlight.
• VersionControlTools - Not a piece pf software but Martin talks about version control tools including subversion, git, and mercurial
• Announcing a new CLR Team Codeplex Project: CLR Runtime Activation - This Codeplex site will feature demos, samples, and helper libraries related to the selection and activation of the CLR: http://clractivation.codeplex.com/

Entity Framework

• Entity Framework Feature CTP 3 Now Available - The ADO.NET team released -  Entity Framework Feature CTP 3. This updated preview addresses compatibility with Visual Studio 2010 RC for Code First (the new name for Code Only) so that users can continue to work with our code-based metadata generation feature alongside the RC.
• Entity Framework POCO Template Updated for Visual Studio 2010 RC - A refresh of the POCO Template that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is now available in the Extension Manager of Visual Studio and through Visual Studio Gallery.

Training

• MVPs receive free Standard subscription to Pluralsight-On-Demand! - Aaron blogs the awesome news all Microsoft MVPs now qualify to receive a free 1-year Standard On-Demand! subscription, which provides them full access to their revolutionary .NET training library. You can read the full announcement here and find out how to get signed-up