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Archive for April, 2009

SQL Server 2008 SP1 Released

Quick news for the day, SP1 for SQL Server 2008 has been released and you can download it from here.

As with most service packs, its a roll up of all of the hot-fixes since RTM. There is nothing major in terms of new functionality, mainly just enhancements to the installation/un-installation process and Report Builder 2.0 which was initially shipped OOB.

Read more about it on the Data Platform team’s blog.

ASP.NET MVC now open source!

In a quick bit of news, Scott Guthrie has posted an announcement declaring that the code for ASP.NET MVC has now been officially open sourced under the MS-Pl license.

Read more about it on the Gu’s blog and if you are looking to grab said source, then you can get it from here

Nice work guys – we appreciate it!

An interesting sample with IronRuby and LightSpeed

Ivan Porto Carrero (you may know him as IvanPC ) tweeted about some interesting work he is doing in building out a sample with IronRuby no doubt as part of his upcoming book on IronRuby, ASP.NET MVC and LightSpeed. Its been a while since I checked in on IronRuby, but having a skim over the source it looks like its coming along pretty well.

You can check out what he is doing over at Github – and in particular if you are interesting in using LightSpeed with IronRuby – great work Ivan!