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Be sure to join us on April 13, 2010 for the John and Jeremy show. John Oswalt and Jeremy Sharp will be taking us on a awesome ride through some of the most talked about content that was presented recently at the Microsoft Mix conference in Las Vegas, NV.

Mark your calendars and get ready for the Microsoft Mix Download!

Title: The Microsoft Mix Download

Come hear a download of the latest Microsoft technology news that was announced at the Microsoft Mix 2010 Conference. Topics will include the latest updates on ASP.NET MVC 2, Open Data Protocol (OData), Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, Silverlight 4, and the new Windows Phone 7 Development.

Presenters:

John Oswalt is a Lead Developer/Analyst for Tyson Foods, Inc. based in Springdale, AR and a Microsoft Certified Professional in ASP.NET. He is currently the President of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group (@nwadnug). He has over 10 years experience in developing websites and applications. His passions for programming languages include ASP.NET, C#, HTML, CSS, VB.NET, SQL, JavaScript, and many others. He is the owner of a few different types of blogs on the internet (Technology – letsblogabout.net) and (Sports – www.callthehogs.com). You can also follow him on Twitter (@joswalt).

Jeremy Sharp is a graduate of the University of Arkansas in computer science, Jeremy has devoted his entire career to the development of Intranet, Internet and Extranet enterprise business applications for both large and small corporations. Over the last ten years he has worked in a variety of industries, including consumer products, health care, education and transportation. Jeremy's client list comprises many well-known local and national names, including Tyson Foods, Arkansas Occupational Health Care, North West Technical Institute and J.B. Hunt.

When:

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where:
The Jones Center
922 East Emma Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764

Room: Kansas Room (226)

John Resig announced that jQuery 1.3 has been released. jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. The big features of this release are:

• Sizzle - A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine.
• Live Events - Event delegation with a jQuery twist.
• jQuery Event Overhaul - Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
• HTML Injection Rewrite - Lightning-fast HTML appending.
• Offset Rewrite - Super-quick position calculation.
• No More Browser Sniffing - Using feature detection to help jQuery last for many more years to come.
• New API Browser - a new API browser developed by Remy Sharp.
  

The full details of the release can be found in the release notes: http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.3.

JetBrains has released Resharper 4.1 as an update to correct quit a few bugs and add some new improvements.

Resharper is a must-have productivity tool for Visual Studio, ReSharper 4 provides solution-wide error highlighting on the fly, advanced code completion, superior unit testing tools, over 30 advanced code refactorings, multiple handy navigation and search utilities, single-click code formatting and cleanup, automatic code generation and templates, and a lot more productivity features for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, and XAML. ReSharper fully integrates with Visual Studio to intelligently and powerfully extend the functionality that is native to Visual Studio.

4.1 Improvments:

• Support for VS 2008 SP1
• Better ASP.NET support
• Performance improvements
• Stability improvements and bugfixes
  

DevExpress has decided to release over 60 controls for downloading that are free of charge – without royalties or distribution costs. Here is a listing of the controls that are available:

WinForms Controls (the XtraEditors Library)

Embeddable Editors

	TextEdit		ButtonEdit		CheckEdit
	CalcEdit		ColorEdit		ComboBoxEdit
	ImageComboBoxEdit		FontEdit		DateEdit
	ImageEdit		PictureEdit		MemoEdit
	RichTextEdit		MemoExEdit		SpinEdit
	LookUpEdit		PopupContainerEdit		TimeEdit
	RadioGroup		MRUEdit		HyperLinkEdit
	ProgressBarControl		TrackBarControl		RangeTrackBarControl
	ZoomTrackBarControl

Controls

	XtraTabControl		FilterControl		ListBoxControl
	CheckedListBoxControl		ImageListBoxControl		DataNavigator
	ControlNavigator		LabelControl		SimpleButton
	CheckButton		DropDownButton		MarqueeProgressBar
	PanelControl		GroupControl		SplitterControl
	SplitContainerControl		XtraScrollableControl		VScrollBar
	HScrollBar

Framework Controls

XtraForm

XtraUserControl

XtraMessageBox

Controllers and Repositories

	StyleController		ToolTipController		DefaultLookAndFeel
	PersistentRepository		DXErrorProvider		DXValidationProvider

ASP.NET Controls (the ASPxperience Suite)

Components

	ASPxCallback		ASPxCallbackPanel		ASPxCloudControl
	ASPxDataView		ASPxHeadline		ASPxMenu
	ASPxNavBar		ASPxNewsControl		ASPxObjectContainer
	ASPxPageControl		ASPxPager		ASPxPanel
	ASPxPopupControl		ASPxPopupMenu		ASPxRoundPanel
	ASPxSiteMapControl		ASPxSiteMapDataSource		ASPxTabControl
	ASPxTimer		ASPxTitleIndex		ASPxUploadControl

Just after posting about the ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate the other day, JetBrains has released the final version of ReSharper 4.0.

Resharper 4.0 Features:

• Full support for C# 3.0 and LINQ
• Visual Studio 2008 Support
• Code cleanup
• New refactorings
• ASP.NET performance improvements
• Multiple new productivity features
   

You can download and find out more infomation here.

Microsoft has released a new Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 and Sliverligh SDK for the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 release.

Overview of the Tools: