11 Mar 09 Newly Noted #22

Development

• A BizTalk DSL using “Oslo”: A really good example of the sort of thing that Oslo allows you to do.
• Moq 3.0 RTM!!!: Daniel Cazzulino has released v3.0 of Moq, one of the more popular mocking frameworks for the .NET 3.5 platform

SharePoint

• SharePoint Web Services: A convenient overview of SharePoint web services
• My SharePoint developer toolkit: JOPX (a.k.a. Joris Poelmans) list the tools he uses for SharePoint development
• Comparison between MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0: Miles Consulting Corp has a nice comparison between MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0
• Downloadable content for Office SharePoint Server 2007: A large part of the SharePoint Server 2007 documentation is downloadable in Word .DOC files.

Software

• IE 8 RTM expected in the week of March 16, 2009: Neowin claims that IE8 will be released on March 16
• Microsoft outlines Windows 7 Enterprise edition features: Microsoft has outlined the features that will be included in Windows 7 Enterprise Edition in a series of briefings to product reviewers.
• Turning Windows Features On or Off: Yup, there it is. Internet Explorer can be turned off in Windows 7.
• Office 14: first information coming out: Hans Verbeeck points to information about Office 14

Social

• The History of Microsoft – 1979: Channel 9 has a great overview of Microsoft history.
• Apple rejects latest version of Tweetie for a ridiculous reason: Apple App Store’s process for allowing apps into the store is again proven to be a big lottery game.