On May 6th we released CodeSmith Generator 5.1. This update brings in many welcoming changes, to name a few: .netTiers 2.3, PLINQO 3.0. Also CodeSmith Generator and now requires that the .NET 3.5 Framework is installed before CodeSmith Generator installs.

Today I was debugging an issue where Microsoft Visual Studio was closing at random in a Microsoft Visual Studio Package. We narrowed down the issue to a previous Microsoft bug report. I came to a point where Microsoft Visual Studio was creating a mini dump file.

A long time ago we needed a script to remove the cached contacts in Microsoft Outlook. After some research we found that these were stored in a NK2 file in the user profile directory. To run the script please close Outlook and create a new batch file (text file with the extension of .bat), or download the file below.

I’ve been working on the CodeSmith Generator CSLA Templates periodically over the past few months at CodeSmith Tools. We have designed the templates from the ground up around the CSLA.NET Framework version 3.6.2. You might be thinking what’s the big deal it’s just another set of CSLA templates. You are mistaken, we have done a lot of research and gathered a lot of feedback. The end result is a streamlined CSLA experience that is highly customizable.

The .netTiers team released .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2 today. .netTiers 2.3.0 is a maintenance release containing many bug fixes and patches. We have also added various requested features like Enterprise Library version 4.1 as well as support for Visual Studio 2008. I would have to say the biggest and most requested feature that went into .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2 was support for Oracle!