Here is a cool internal tool used by Microsoft that is now seeing daylight.

The .netTiers team released .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 1 the other day. .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 as well as support for Visual Studio 2008.

Check out the screen casts / videos of the Microsoft 2008 Lang.NET Symposium event. They have some pretty interesting videos available for everyone, granted you have Silverlight installed.

Over the past week there has been some talk on Scott Guthrie and Shawn Burke blog about Silverlight 2.0. Please check out Scott’s blog for included features and eight walk through pertaining to Silverlight 2.0, and Shawn’s for more information on what we can expect while developing Silverlight 2.0 enabled applications.

The February CTP of SQL Server 2008 has been released on Microsoft Download Center. From what I understand this CTP of SQL Server 2008 is feature complete. Please also check out the following article Breaking API changes in the February ‘08 CTP.