Neodynamic is proud to announce the availability of Barcode Professional for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the only product providing linear, postal and 2D barcoding support for WPF platform!

Neodynamic Barcode Professional for WPF is a royalty-free lightweight .NET component which generates high quality vector-based barcodes for WPF Applications. Barcode Professional for WPF was designed and written from ground up to take advantage of new presentation layer featured by .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5.

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Posted at 10:02PM on January 22nd, 2008 by John-Daniel Trask

Mindscape has released the first 100% WPF Property Grid that supports the .Net framework 3.0 and 3.5. For the first time, developers can use a property grid within their WPF applications without the need to use winforms interop, enabling the power and flexibility that WPF provides right out of the box.

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Posted at 9:12AM on January 21st, 2008 by Bob Schwarz

Microsoft made good on its promise to offer .Net Framework 3.5 source code this week, three months after Scott Guthrie, a general manager within the Microsoft Developer division, posted Microsoft’s intent on his blog. The source code to classes such as System, IO, Windows.Forms, and others is now viewable from within Visual Studio. When the announcement was first made, however, some developers viewed it as a Pandora’s Box because the source code would be released under a “Reference” license, which meant developers could view the code but not use or modify it. On Wednesday Guthrie revealed a small change in the licensing which addresses those concerns:

“We made a small change to the license to specifically call out that the license does not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows platform that has ‘the same or substantially the same features or functionality’ as the .NET Framework,” he wrote. “If the software you are developing is for Windows platforms, you can look at the code, even if that software has ‘the same or substantially the same features or functionality’ as the .NET Framework.”

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Posted at 11:06AM on January 12th, 2008 by Bob Schwarz

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 provides cumulative roll-up updates for customer reported issues found after the release of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. In addition, this release provides security improvements, and prerequisite feature support for .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1, and .NET Framework 3.5.

Instructions

Important:

  1. Make sure you have the latest service pack and critical updates for the version of Windows on the computer. To look for recent updates, visit Windows Update.
  2. Click the Download button on this page to start the download
  3. To save the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save.
  4. To cancel the installation, click Cancel.

Download Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86)

Posted at 11:00AM on January 12th, 2008 by Bob Schwarz

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 provides cumulative roll-up updates for customer reported issues found after the release of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0. In addition, this release provides security improvements, and prerequisite feature support for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

Instructions

Important:

  1. Make sure you have the latest service pack and critical updates for the version of Windows on the computer. To look for recent updates, visit Windows Update.
  2. Click the Download button on this page to start the download
  3. To save the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save.
  4. To cancel the installation, click Cancel.

Download Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1

Posted at 10:53AM on January 12th, 2008 by Bob Schwarz

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.

Download .Net Framework 3.5

Posted at 10:48AM on January 10th, 2008 by Bob Schwarz

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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Posted at 8:45PM on January 7th, 2008 by Bob Schwarz

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