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This review refers to the beta 2 version of the book. This book is exactly what the title says - it is a good, solid introduction to programming Silverlight 2 beta 2 in C#. Laurence does a good job of covering all of the basics of writing Silverlight...

Elizabeth Smith has a new blog post today showing the steps you'll need to get code coverage testing up and running on your Windows extensions.

She spells out a seven step process that involves Microsoft Visual Studio (with Code Coverage support), a properly compiled PHP instance and a little familiarity with the Windows command line to get things working.

Today, Huw Collingbourne - developer of Ruby In Steel, a family of Ruby and Rails IDEs for Windows - has launched Ruby In Steel Personal Edition (PE), a free Ruby and Rails IDE built around Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.