Data Tier Modeler (DTM) is a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational framework for Microsoft.Net.

New features and improvements (DTM v3.0)

• Improved association classes management
• Improved databinding (MVC model)
• Improved Visual Studio .NET integration
• Rational XDE compliant
• New databases supported : MySQL 4.1, DB2 v8.x
• Optimization of each database specific code
• Optimization of cache mechanism (2 levels cache)
• More documentation and samples

Map many entities

• Object model (UML, XML, XMI)
• 1-1, 1-n, n-1, n-m … relations (aggregations, compositions)
• Inheritance
• Interfaces
• Association classes
• Singletons
• Enumerations

Features

• Objects collections
• Advanced Databinding (MVC model)
• Data encryption (DES or MD5)
• Visitor Pattern 
• XML serialization
• Cascading load/save/delete
• Lazy loading
• Personalized error management
• Read and/or write access

Interfacing

• Fully integrated in Visual Studio .Net
• Code generation directly in your class library in Visual Studio
• UML models management
• Database connexions management (execution of SQL scripts…)
• UML modeling (with Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose, Argo UML…)
• XML modeling 

Request Language 

• OPath (Object Path)
• Object requests
• Bidirectional navigation through objects relations
• Collections for each type of objects
• Criteria
• Sorting
• Paging 
• Template loading
• Visitor Pattern
• Loading of collections, objects or values …
• SQL requests

Database  

• Database specific code (enabling optimization)
• SQL-Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Access, …
• Database concurrency management
• Transactions (automatic or manual)

Unlimited mapping types

• Standard types (int, string, char, bool, DateTime, …)
• Advanced Database Types (xml, text, char[x], decimal[x,y], …)
• Complex serializable types (Hashtable, Drawing.Image…)
• User types
• Binary serialization

Object cache

• Shared memory cache
• Reference tracking
• Creation of Garbage Collection with unreferenced objects.

[ Via Yitzhak Gootvilig's Blog ]

Gone are the days of dozens of test event handlers and breakpoints just to find out which events are fired in what order and under which circumstances! EventSpy catches all events of any Windows Forms Control or other event-raising object and writes event info, arguments and the call stack to the VS.NET IDE Debug Output window or to a file.EventSpy uses Reflection and dynamically built assemblies to accomplish this task.

Download EventSpy from gotdotnet.com

[ Via Paul Laudeman ]

Brandon Paddock wrote interesting article about executing MSN Desktop Search from
your application.

The source looks like a hack ,but works excellent.

The article enumerates the differences between C# .Net 2003 (C#) and Visual Basic .Net 2003 (VB.Net) and the potential ramifications of these differences with regard to cross-language platform support.

MSDN Forums Beta allows customers to search a growing archive of technical questions and answers.

Here are the C#-specific groups:

• Visual C# IDE  Questions and discussions on the C# IDE (including IntelliSense, refactoring, code snippets, colorization, brace matching, smart tags, auto-generated code, etc.)
• Visual C# Language  Issues regarding the C# language and compiler ( including things like generics, anonymous methods, etc. )
• Visual C# General  General open C# issues that don’t t fall into any other C# forum category.
• Visual Studio Debugger  Questions and discussions about debugging applications with the Visual Studio debugger.

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn

[ Via Josh Ledgard ]