Microsoft has recently released an xml tool, strangely enough its not called ‘Windows Live XML Notepad 2006’. It is a pretty useful application if your needing a lightweight xml editor and don’t wish to use notepad2 etc.

Microsoft has released SP1 for Visual Studio .Net 2003. If you’re developing .Net 1.1 applications then I highly recommend installing vs2003 SP1 now.

I really haven’t had the time lately to do very much, but I came across this interesting bit of news about the ability of php to run on the .Net Framework. Apparently they phpbb forums running on the .Net framework and that is really amazing. Below is a quote describing what Phalanger really is.

A new Community Technology Preview of Atlas has been released on the atlas website atlas.asp.net.

The current version of Microsoft Debugging Tools is 6.6.7.5 and was released on July 18, 2006; For more information read the relnotes.txt after you have installed the application.