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UML-style free modeling tools for Visual Studio .NET

hB0 — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:09:00 GMT

"tangible FREE modeling tools" which support UML-style modeling diretly in Visual Studio.NET. tangible free modeling tools enable the .NET community to communicate better in .NET projects without costs.
tangible modelling tools FREE EDITION has the same modelling diagrams included as our world-class Model-Driven Code Generator tangible architect.
Start using the IDE-integrated modelers for Class Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Component Diagrams, State Diagrams and Activity Diagrams right now. => http://www.tangiblearchitect.net/modellingtools.html

Source Code for the .NET

hB0 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:50:00 GMT

With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft will be releasing the source code for the .NET Framework Libraries.
The ability to be able to debug through your application and then right in to the framework itself will be a huge benefit for developers.

Initially the source code released will be for the following libraries;
    * .NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.Net, System.Security, etc.)
    * ASP.NET (System.Web)
    * Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms)
    * ADO.NET (System.Data)
    * XML (System.XML)
    * Windows Presentation Foundation aka WPF (System.Windows)

View the detailed info @ Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries - ScottGu's Blog

Visual Studio Shell

hB0 — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:44:00 GMT

With the upcoming Visual Studio Shell, Microsoft is looking to open its base IDE to a wider ecosystem.
Visual Studio Shell provides a core IDE for users to develop their own custom programming language or development tools.

Full: http://searchvb.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid8_gci1273412,00.html