Finally a new version of SubSonic was released today with a lot of new features. SubSonic is one of my favorite Data Access Layer (DAL) generators, that makes it super easy to create data access code.
As a developer you have a lot of control over what the generated code looks like, which is great because I do not like code generators to dictate the essence of my code. But the beauty of SubSonic is that you never really have to interact with the generated code itself. It’s automatically generated and compiled for you — you just need to learn how to use it, which is pretty simple. What’s more, it’s free, and works with not only SQL Server, but also with MySQL, SQLite, and Oracle databases. Read more…
Google is about to launch a new service that will allow you to take complete control of your voice communications. This service will offer features like Unified Messaging, Voicemail transcription, Call Screening, Free calls to U.S. numbers, and much much more!
Developer Express and Microsoft provide a new version of CodeRush licensed exclusively for C# developers working in Visual Studio. The new product is called CodeRush Xpress, and it includes a slew of useful features to boost your productivity under Visual Studio.
I wonder why any version of Windows has never had an undelete utility to recover files that you accidentally deleted. We all do that, or have done it at least once in our lifetimes (if you have not, you will!). It’s a more essential utility than some that Windows installs by default.
But no sweat as long as we have the freeware recovery software called Recuva! Here’s some information about this great utility straight from it’s developer’s web site:
Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
I have used Recuva on Vista x64 where some other file recovery utilities fail (even though they say they are Vista compatible), and had great results. I had accidentally deleted some of my family pictures, and Recuva recovered them for me in a snap.
