Chris Bowen's Blog : IronRubyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/IronRuby/default.aspxTags: IronRubyen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)A Guide to the Newly-Released Developer Updateshttp://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/07/29/a-guide-to-the-newly-released-developer-updates.aspxSun, 29 Jul 2007 16:35:23 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4117693cbowen2http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/comments/4117693.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=4117693http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=4117693<p>Though I managed to sneak away for some vacation time this week, it's clearly been a busy time for the product teams.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here's a summary of the recently-released betas and updates with links for more information:&nbsp;</p> <h3><u>Silverlight</u></h3> <ul> <li>Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate (<a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=89015&amp;clcid=0x409">windows</a>|<a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=89016&amp;clcid=0x409">mac</a>) <li>Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh (<a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88986&amp;clcid=0x409">windows</a>|<a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88987&amp;clcid=0x409">mac</a>)</li></ul> <blockquote> <p>Details on <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/07/27/silverlight-1-0-rc1-is-here.aspx">Tim Sneath's blog</a>.<br>Here's a <a href="http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx">useful guide</a> to the Silverlight versions and supporting tools.</p></blockquote> <h3><u>Expression</u></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=69540337-B619-4A47-AC27-52D8AF3A7830&amp;displaylang=en">Expression Blend 2 August Preview</a> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A3C901C-C23D-4567-A76F-CC46CB113D1E&amp;displaylang=en">Expression Media Encoder Preview Update</a></li></ul> <blockquote> <p>Both include support for Silverlight 1.0 RC.<br><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=blend2preview">Details</a> on the Expression Site.</p></blockquote> <h3><u>Visual Studio &amp; .NET Framework</u></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx">Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2</a> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D2F74873-C796-4E60-91C8-F0EF809B09EE&amp;displaylang=en">.NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2</a></li></ul> <blockquote> <p>Now include "Go Live" license.<br>Full details in <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/26/vs-2008-and-net-3-5-beta-2-released.aspx">Scott Guthrie's post</a>.<br>Scott Hanselman (BTW, now a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlueBadge.aspx">Microsoft employee</a>) has a simplified&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VS2008AndNET35Beta2ReleasesMadeEasy.aspx">installation guide</a>.</p></blockquote> <h3><u>ASP.NET Futures</u></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88541&amp;clcid=0x409">ASP.NET Futures July Update</a></li></ul> <blockquote> <p>Includes Silverlight support (asp:Media, asp:Xaml), AJAX extensions,&nbsp;application services, dynamic language support, and dynamic data controls.<br><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/05/21/asp-net-futures-may-2007.aspx">Soma describes the release</a> on his blog.<br><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/07/27/vs2008-net-3-5-silverlight-and-asp-net-futures.aspx">More details</a>&nbsp;on Brad Abrams' blog (second half of the post).</p></blockquote> <h3><u>Ajax Control Toolkit</u></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4923">AJAX Control Toolkit pdate</a></li></ul> <blockquote> <p>Update to support the Beta 2's of VS2008 and .NET 3.5.<br><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/07/26/a-new-framework-deserves-a-new-toolkit-ajax-control-toolkit-updated-for-net-3-5-beta-2.aspx">Details</a> on Delay's blog.</p></blockquote> <h3><u>IronRuby</u></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://iunknown.typepad.com/IronRuby-Pre-Alpha1.zip">IronRuby Pre Alpha</a>&nbsp;source preview</li></ul> <blockquote> <p>John Lam has <a href="http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html">the details</a>.<br>Scott Guthrie has a <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/23/first-look-at-ironruby.aspx">helpful introduction/tutorial</a>.</p></blockquote> <h3><u>IronPython</u></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3749">IronPython 2.0 Alpha 3</a></li></ul> <blockquote> <p>Dino Viehland's <a href="http://lists.ironpython.com/pipermail/users-ironpython.com/2007-July/005343.html">announcement</a> [via <a href="http://plnews.org/Languages/Python/ironpython2.0alpha3-2007-07-29-10-37.html">PLNews.org</a>]</p></blockquote> <h3><u>F#</u></h3> <ul> <li>F# Language v1.9.2.7 release (<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/a81e161e-1e4b-42cc-97c2-2ba9b0efba94/Details.aspx">MSI/Windows</a> | <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/33079924-5bf5-4470-8019-e47b56e1ce2d/Details.aspx">ZIP/Mono</a>)</li></ul> <blockquote> <p>Don Syme's <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2007/07/27/f-1-9-2-7-released.aspx">announcement of v1.9.2.7</a><br>Don Syme with the <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2007/07/27/full-release-notes-for-f-1-9-2-7.aspx">full release notes</a><br><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx">F# Overview</a> (i.e. why you may be interested)</p></blockquote> <p>Enjoy your explorations!</p> <p>-Chris</p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:852198f6-0a66-4bf0-9acb-94275860d89d" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; 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