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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta
12 May 08 07:28 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments

ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and...

Filed under: CLR, C#, ASP.NET, Avalon/WPF, .NET Framework 3.5, Avalon, Entity Framework, Development Tools, Data Access, Microsoft Vista, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET MVC Framework, VS 2008

Sam Gentile's Inessential List of Tools
29 February 08 12:00 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)

I get asked a lot what tools I use, and have planned to write a post. As my buddy Harry got there first , I have also taken the title of "non essential" as he did for the same reason - Scott Hanselman keeps *THE* ultimate list of tools , hence...

Filed under: Personal, Blog, Microsoft .NET, Sam Gentile, Agile and Extreme Programming, Tools and Utilities, Vista, BizTalk, BizTalk Server, ESB, Microsoft MVP, Neudesic, Team Foundation Server, Tools, Visual Studio Team System, NET, PowerShell, Team System, NET Framework 3, SQL Server, Mocks, Microsoft Vista, Neuron ESB, Neuron, Resharper, CodeRush, SQL, Red Gate, SQL Prompt, Groove

Wanted: A Windows Edition for Power and Professional Users
15 April 07 06:07 PM | Sam Gentile | 21 comment(s)

Scott asks, "Wouldn't it be great if there were an edition of Windows with all of the stupid features turned off?" Yes, it would and it must happen soon . I've spent the week and with my new Alienware and Vista Ultimate and I am frustrated...

Filed under: Vista, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista