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Google Chrome Beta 2.0 Released(1)
I know this isn't exactly software development news, but every software developer needs a good web browser behind him. Google's Chrome browser has been turning some heads. The beta stamp was removed from Chrome back in December 2008, but they have a new release and that stamp has come out of retirement. Google Chrome 2.0 was released on March 17th, and has some cool new features, including form autofill, side-by-side view for tabs, and a big speed increase. Click here to read more and download Chrome 2.0 beta.
Introducing Microsoft Web Platform Installer
On March 18th, Microsoft released Web Platform Installer 2.0. The Web Platform Installer is a small utility you can use to download, install, and maintain your Microsoft Web Platform applications. This includes Internet Information Services (Microsoft's web server), or IIS, MS SQL Server Express, Silverlight 3 Visual Studio tools, and much more. Like the ASP.NET MVC release, the Web Platform Installer (or Web PI) release was announced at Mix '09. Again, good timing here on Microsoft's part that allowed them to get this beta version out to lots of people that will be downloading new stuff. In this article, I give a full review of my user experience with Web PI 2.0 beta, including screenshots.
ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0 Released
Today, Phil Haack reported that the ASP.NET MVC framework has been officially moved out of beta status and released to the world. It's good timing, too. If you're like me, you were waiting for the beta to end before really getting into ASP.NET MVC because you were afraid that each release would break your projects. Well, I guess its time to really dive in and I'm excited to do it. Read this article for more information and the download link.