David Hayden - Florida .NET Developer - C# and SQL Server

dotTrace Profiler 3.1 - Support for Visual Studio 2008, Vista and Windows Server 2008

Dave Hayden — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:12:00 GMT

JetBrains has unbelievable tools. dotTrace 3.1 provides support for the latest technologies.

CodeRush and Refactor! Pro v3.0.8 Download Available - Visual Studio 2008 Add-Ins

Dave Hayden — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:26:00 GMT

Download CodeRush and Refactor! Pro v3.0.8. Numerous bug fixes.

Download Zune 2.5 Software - Gapless Playback - Smart Playlists - Multiple Device Syncing...

Dave Hayden — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:27:00 GMT

Download the new Zune 2.5 software update.

Download XNA Game Developer Studio 3.0 CTP - Zune XBOX 360 Windows

Dave Hayden — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:19:00 GMT

Develop games for Windows, Zune, and the XBOX 360.

Expression Web 2 - FTP Explorer to Publish Websites Should be a TreeView

Dave Hayden — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:15:00 GMT

Expression Web 2's FTP Explorer to publish websites should be a TreeView.

Expression Design 2 Needs Some Bitmap Graphics Tools like Crop Lasso Magic Wand Marquee

Dave Hayden — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:38:00 GMT

Expression Design 2 is still missing those ever so important bitmap graphics tools. Sigh...

Popfly Game Creator Alpha Released - Online Tool for Creating Web-based Games

Dave Hayden — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:25:00 GMT

Create some games using the PopFly Game Creator.

Coda - Mac Web Design and Web Development Tool

Dave Hayden — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:54:00 GMT

Coda is described as a one-window web development tool for the Mac that provides a Text Editor, FTP application, CSS Editor, etc.

Free VMware Fusion 1.1.2 Update - Better Support for MacBook Air and Time Machine

Dave Hayden — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:35:00 GMT

There is a new VMware Fusion update that has better support for the MacBook Air, Time Machine, as well as a number of bug fixes.

Microsoft Hires Adobe's Former Chief Architect of Photoshop

Dave Hayden — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:55:00 GMT

Accoding to PhotoshopNews.com, Mark Hamburg will be leading a team working on the future of OS User Experience at Microsoft.

Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Released

Dave Hayden — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:09:00 GMT

Microsoft Expression Studio 2 was released today. I tend to favor Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks, but I need to give Expression Web and Design another look.

SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Gets T-SQL Intellisense

Dave Hayden — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:45:00 GMT

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio will provide T-SQL Intellisense. Let the party begin :)

Composite ASP.NET MVC Applications WCSF, SCSF, and Prism Style

Dave Hayden — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:38:00 GMT

A lot of the modularity, discoverability, and IoC Container stuff I like in the WCSF, SCSF, and Prism I use in my composite ASP.NET MVC applications.

Apple iWork '08 Keynotes for Presentations - Simply Stunning

Dave Hayden — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Apple iWork '08 Keynotes is embarassingly easy to create attractive presentations for us developer types.

New iMac from Apple - Now up to 3.06 Ghz - New Intel Chipsets

Dave Hayden — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:27:00 GMT

The new iMac from Apple is based on the new chipset from Intel with processing power up to 3.06GHz.

Smart Client Software Factory for VS 2008 Released

Dave Hayden — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:07:00 GMT

Download new releases of the Smart Client Software Factory and Contrib Project for VS 2008.

NHibernate and Castle ActiveRecord Tutorial for the Uninitiated

Dave Hayden — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:24:00 GMT

If you are interested in Castle ActiveRecord, The NHibernate FAQ has a new tutorial on getting started with Castle ActiveRecord.

Retina.net O/R Mapper for the .NET Framework - Data Access Layer Generation

Dave Hayden — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:54:00 GMT

Retina.net is an O/R Mapper for the .NET Framework that appears to be active once again on CodePlex.

Windows XP SP3 Released to MSDN Subscribers - Soon the World!

Dave Hayden — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:57:00 GMT

I have not made the move to Windows Vista, so I sure do appreciate Windows XP SP3 to avoid the 80 to 90 Security Updates one needs to install after installing Windows XP SP2.

Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results

Dave Hayden — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:54:00 GMT

During the quarter, Apple shipped 2,289,000 Mac computers (representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter), sold 10,644,000 iPods, and reported quarterly iPhone sales of 1,703,000.

Airport Extreme from Apple is Pricey But Works Well and Easy to Set-Up

Dave Hayden — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:01:00 GMT

Only Apple would charge $180 for their Airport Extreme network router, but I bought it anyway to see just how easy it was to set-up and how well it worked.

ReSharper vs. CodeRush and Refactor! Pro Is Always an Interesting Discussion

Dave Hayden — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:12:00 GMT

I am curious as to who will release a new version first, the upcoming Code Analysis features that will be released from Developer Express, and the reaction of the .NET Developer Community.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Routing and Registering the LINQ To SQL DataContext Model

Dave Hayden — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:33:00 GMT

A couple of other interesting changes to the ASP.NET Dynamic Data Websites Framework found in the latest Dynamic Data Preview on Code Gallery that differs from the previous drop that I presentated to the Sarasota .NET Developer Group.

vmware Fusion Unity - Windows Apps Running Alongside Mac Applications on MacBook Pro

Dave Hayden — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:36:00 GMT

vmware Fusion has this cool Unity option where Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server Management Studio and other windows apps run alongside Mac applications as if they were native Mac applications.

JetBrains TeamCity Doesn't Support SourceGear Vault ?

Dave Hayden — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:15:00 GMT

I thought I would mix things up a bit and switch back from Subversion to Vault and use TeamCity as opposed to CruiseControl.net, but the Gods weren't on my side.