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Scott Guthrie carried the good news from the source. If you're like me and can't just wait, head over and download the FREE Express Editions. The Professional version 90-day trial will be released soon.

Personally, I am looking forward to Visual Studio's Intellisense native support for Javascript and Ajax. And it has Mult-Targeting support so you can continue developing ASP.NET 2.0 web sites you already have until you upgrade it to .NET 3.5.

I haven't read anything about DLR in this release. Seems they skipped it in this release. And the same goes for MVC support. If you're anxious to write IronPython/IronRuby like me, you will have to download them separately.

Anyways, check out the new features that Scott blogged about and just keep doing what you do best: coding happily ever after;)

The folks at mashable have compiled a comprehensive  list of good .net resource websites. Sadl, they didnt include great websites like dotnetkicks and dotnetslackers.

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"Microsoft is going to be letting developers take a look at the source code for .NET, but for those of you still in the trenches, coding away, we’ve gathered 25+ tools to help you with your daily tasks."

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Let's first start with this video in case you didnt see it before.

Jaws dropped!? Sat down in a lonely corner thinking how will this change the world!? is the Matrix really inevitable? why the hell didn't you think of this simple DSP idea and implemented it in MATlab and be famous and rich!!??

Happened to me too and everyone who watched that video. Rumors has it that the guy behind this one-of-a-kind-yet-simple idea was hired in Adobe. I wonder why!?

And what about forging!? If your kids in the future will be able to remove their unwanted friends from group photos that easy, how easy will it be to fraud papers!!?? Will it be illegal in Egypt...sure will. It happend to the GPS, and Content-Aware Image Resizing is no exception.

BountyFisshing claimed in their blog that they know how to find cheaters who photoshop their fish to win some serious money. I wonder how their technique will change to catch forgers?

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So far so good. Now the geniuses behind this idea launched their own website showing the above video. AND A FULL ACADEMIC PAPER DESCRIBING HOW THE ALGORITHM WORKS!! Now you have no execuse to implement it in your next project, even if it's not part of the requirements...adding this feature will make customers happy all the way.

Wait, it doesnt stop there!! A whole breed of implementations are being spread right now:

• Rsizr: Online flash application. (psst, download this image to play around with it)
  
• Picutel Smart Resize: Photoshop plugin (95$)
• Liquid Resize: GIMP (open-source) plugin
• Flash Action Script Implementation: Source code and Tutorial
• Seam CAIR: an open-source implmentation written with .NET by my Egyptian muslim brother, Haytham.
  

Now here's a real gem for all you .NET developers out there. Carl J has compiled a comprehensive list of Visual Studio addins. So what? they're ALL FREE!

And to my surprise, I only knew about 4 or 5 of them, the rest were lurking some where in the wilderness of the internet, waiting for Carl to Google'em out for us :)

Excellent job Carl. [dotnetkicks]

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