Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0, and includes .NET Framework 2.0 service pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.0 service pack 1.

NET Framework 3.5 builds incrementally on the new features added in .NET Framework 3.0. For example, feature sets in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows CardSpace. In addition, .NET Framework 3.5 contains a number of new features in several technology areas which have been added as new assemblies to avoid breaking changes. They include the following:

• Deep integration of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and data awareness. This new feature will let you write code written in LINQ-enabled languages to filter, enumerate, and create projections of several types of SQL data, collections, XML, and DataSets by using the same syntax.
• ASP.NET AJAX lets you create more efficient, more interactive, and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers.
• New Web protocol support for building WCF services including AJAX, JSON, REST, POX, RSS, ATOM, and several new WS-* standards.
• Full tooling support in Visual Studio 2008 for WF, WCF, and WPF, including the new workflow-enabled services technology.
• New classes in .NET Framework 3.5 base class library (BCL) that address many common customer requests.

IMPORTANT:

• If you have installed earlier pre-release versions of .NET Framework 3.5, then you must uninstall them prior to running this installation by using Add or Remove Programs.

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Windows Forms sample code for demonstrating improvements to Windows Forms data binding in the .NET Framework 2.0. This sample code is associated with part two of a two part series of white papers on this topic.

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Learn how to deploy a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office system (also known as Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition, or VSTO 2005 SE) solution using a Visual Studio 2005 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.

This download targets developers who want to deploy a Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office 2007 solution using a Visual Studio 2005 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.

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Read this over at DevX and thought it would be a good submission to kick the new site off.

With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has also updated the .NET Compact Framework. Unlike its desktop counterpart, there is no version 3.0 of the .NET Compact Framework. Instead, to align with the .NET Framework versioning on the desktop, the latest version of the .NET Compact Framework is now 3.5, up from its previous version number of 2.0.

The .NET Compact Framework 3.5 adds new APIs and, most notably, it now supports the new Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) features that are standard on the .NET Framework (the WCF feature will be covered in more depth in an upcoming article). On the Visual Studio 2008 front, there are new tools to make testing and development work much easier and robust.

If you want to read the full article you do so at DevX site.

Windows Forms sample code for adding drop-down filter lists to the DataGridView control similar to the AutoFilter feature of Excel.
This sample code is associated with a white paper on this topic.

For more information, see the associated Building a Drop-Down Filter List for a DataGridView Column Header Cell white paper.

To provide feedback on this sample code and to check for updates, see the Windows Forms Documentation Updates Blog.

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We’ve just released PowerPoint Slide Show Converter 2.0: now it has a special mode to generate smaller EXE files by compressing the slides better.

In most cases the new “Compress Better” option can significantly decrease file sizes of converted presentations. We recommend you to use this option for presentations that mostly consist of photographic images.

PowerPoint Slide Show Converter turns a presentation created with Microsoft PowerPoint into a self-running slide show application (executable file) or a screen saver that can be run on other computers without requiring any additional program files.

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VisualHint, a company specializing in the creation of elaborated and usable custom controls from scratch, is pleased to announce the release of its second product: Smart FieldPackEditor.Net 1.0. After addressing Microsoft PropertyGrids shortcomings, it is DateTimePickers turn to receive a facelift.

The Windows Forms DateTimePicker is one of the most criticized within the developers community. It offers no flexible rendering, no support for a null/DBNull value, poor API (e.g. there is no way to select a field or open/close the dropdown month calendar), no custom fields, and more.
Well, Smart FieldPackEditor.Net is finally the solution you have been looking for. It indeed offers a solid framework to develop any rule-based fields editor and one of its first derived class is the DateTimePicker.

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Nevron development team announces the release of the new version of Nevron .NET Vision advanced, professional component suite for data visualization and GUI creation in the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.

With this release we introduce new smooth area chart series with different variations - Standard Smooth Area, XY Smooth Area and Date-Time Smooth Area- says Bob Milanov a lead developer at the company The Chart also has the Numeric Display Panel introduced in this version which features various display styles, control over the decimal formatting, full control over the panel appearance and size and many others.

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