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:

JetBrains has finally released a release candidate for ReSharper 4.0. ReSharper 4.0 introduces comprehensive support for Visual Studio 2008 and
C# 3.0, solution-wide analysis, .NET Framework classes annotated with custom attributes for better code inspection, single-click code cleanup, brand new refactorings for both C# and VB.NET, plus a whole lot of productivity features. As before, ReSharper comes in three editions: Full, C# and VB.NET*, which are called on to bring every customer precisely what they need — and enjoy the savings.

Download ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate to test the power of new capabilities and help us put the finishing touch on the product. Whatever edition you want, whatever version of Visual Studio you use, there's a single download file for all.

See also "ReSharper 4.0 vs plain Visual Studio 2008" Comparison.
For more details, please visit ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate Feature set.

*VB.NET Edition provides support for Visual Basic 8

What's New

• Full Support for C# 3.0 and LINQ
• ReSharper 4 Full Edition and C# Edition provide comprehensive support for C# 3.0, including LINQ, implicitly typed locals and arrays, extension methods, automatic properties, lambda expressions, object & collection initializers, anonymous types, expression trees, and partial methods.
• Comprehensive Insight into .NET Framework
• We have analyzed a great share of .NET Framework Class Library, as well as NUnit Framework, and annotated it through external XML files, using a set of custom attributes from the JetBrains.Annotations namespace.
• Solution-Wide Analysis
• ReSharper 4.0 provides a full-fledged feature called Solution-Wide Analysis, which looks for erroneous C# code in your whole solution on-the-fly, without compiling it first.
• Code Cleanup
• A new, extended reincarnation of what was previously known as Reformat Code. You can now save a myriad of "go-to-next-highlight-then-apply-a-quick-fix" iterations by simply running Code Cleanup!
• New Refactorings
• In line with the major message of the current release, all refactorings support C# 3.0. New members of the refactoring family are available, including a pack of C# 3.0-specific refactorings. Plus, we have a surprise for VB.NET aficionados: all refactorings that were previously limited to C# 2.0 are now available for Visual Basic 8.
• Multiple New Productivity Features
• Here's a glance at a number of improvements intended to make your coding experience appreciably more enjoyable.
• Complete Statement, introduced in ReSharper 4.0, is a feature that inserts necessary syntax elements (braces, semicolons etc.) and gets you to the position to start the next statement, saving you from excessive juggling with the caret. As you work, keep in mind the default shortcut for this feature — Ctrl+Shift+Enter .
• CamelHumps in Code Completion -
  In ReSharper 4.0, all three completion features — Symbol Completion, Smart Completion, and Import Symbol Completion — support CamelHumps. That lets you complete any symbol by entering only its uppercase characters.
• Live Templates Editor & Manager
  Live Templates Editor is a rejuvenated set of user interface items for viewing, managing, and editing all three types of templates — Live Templates, 'Surround With' Templates, and File Templates.
• Recent Edits
  Recent Edits is a drop-down list similar to existing Go To features that shows files and symbols that you recently modified.
• ASP.NET Speedup
• ReSharper 4.0 significantly speeds up analysis of ASP.NET pages, to enable more web developers benefit from the great toolset that ReSharper provides.