See how combining SharePoint 2007's API and an Object Model allows for greater program functionality. More info

Do you need to know when a file or directory has been updated? The FileSystemWatcher class gives you a very easy means to monitor the file system. More info

Discover the main differences between accessing the Registry with VB 6 and with VB.NET. More info

From AIR to ZK, this is an alphabetical round-up of the fast moving-world of application development tools and frameworks spawned ever since the appearance of Google Maps, the canonical early RIA. The list includes AIR, Appcelerator, ATF, Curl, Dojo, Echo, Eclipse RCP, Flex, GWT, JavaFX, Kabuki, Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 platform, Novulu, OpenLaszlo, Prototype, Rico, Ruby on Rails, Seam, Silverlight, ThinWire, TIBCO GI, ULC, Yahoo! User Interface Library, Zend Framework, and ZK. More info

'When we first released Windows Vista last year, there were lots of customers who had great experiences, but some had issues finding applications that worked well on Windows Vista,' wrote Microsoft's Mike Nash yesterday candidly on the official Windows Vista Blog. 'The good news,' he continued, 'is that this last year has been a great year of progress for Windows Vista in terms of improving application and device compatibility.' More info

OpenLink announced the commercial availability of Release 6.1 of its high-performance and secure Universal Data Access Drivers. The updated components support new and older releases of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Ingres, Progress Open Edge, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Firebird, across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX. More info

PreEmptive Solutions announced that it has launched a Professional Services organization and is shipping new releases of DashO, Dotfuscator Gold, Dotfuscator Professional, Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE) and Dotfuscator CE Enhanced. More info

AccuRev now offers significantly more software configuration management (SCM) functionality, productivity and performance enhancements for its AccuBridge for Visual Studio 2005 plug-in directly in the Visual Studio IDE. AccuBridge for Visual Studio 2005, which now implements the SCC provider interfaces that are part of the Visual Studio packages, also adds significantly improved usability over the previous integration, which was based on the Microsoft Common Source Code Control Interface. More info

The .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customers and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. More info

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