From the Visual Studio home page:

• Learn more about Visual Studio 2008
• MSDN Subscribers: Get Visual Studio 2008
• Download Trial Editions of Visual Studio 2008
• Download Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions (and see Dan’s Top 15 Things to love about Visual Studio 2008 Express)
• Download the .NET Framework 3.5
• Download the Visual Studio 2008 1.0 SDK (includes all kinds of cool stuff for developing against VS itself, including the new Visual Studio Shell).

Enjoy! I know I have been.

After programming with MFC (a lot!) and writing the ATL book, it was *very* difficult for me to live in a world without the source code to figure out how something was working. All of us have since moved over to Lutz’s most excellent Reflector, but that’s still no substitute for actually stepping in and now ScottGu has announced that we’ll have the ability to browse and debug with the .NET library source code, integrated into VS2008:

Wahoo!

Shawn Wildermuth has prepared a v0.8 release of Genghis that includes a bunch of stuff that the folks that put the v0.6 release together dropped. The v0.8 release has all the good stuff from the v0.5 release and all the new stuff from the v0.6 release in a .NET 2.0 package.

Shawn’s really done all the work for Genghis since I came to Microsoft. Thanks, Shawn.

Shawn Wildermuth has moved Genghis to CodePlex because GotDotNet Workspaces is going away. I actually really like CodePlex, but not the state those pesky contractors left the Genghis bits in, so we'll be following up with another release in early July to bring sanity back. Thanks, Shawn!

Show Me The Template is a tool for exploring the templates, be their data, control or items panel, that comes with the controls built into WPF for all 6 themes.

Enjoy.

And the hits they keep on comin’:

• What’s New in VS Orcas March CTP VPC image (includes the *long* list of what’s new)
• Virtual PC 2007 (*free* but needed to play w/ the Orcas bits)
• Tim Sneath on Orcas + WPF

Enjoy!

• .NET Reflector 5.0
• .NET Reflector 5.0 Add-Ins
• .NET Reflector 5.0 new feature overview (PowerPoint deck)

Need I say more?

A long time ago (2000), I was fascinated with turning a phone number into a time zone so I could tell what time it would be somewhere before I called and woke anyone up (this happened too often : ).

As part of that work, I quickly realized that info in Windows for time zones wasn’t detailed enough, so I began looking elsewhere. I found the Time Zone Map Group, which maintains time zone data for all over the world backward through time. This is an amazing accomplishment, since they have to account for every law change as each tin pot dictator comes to power, e.g. George W.

At the time, they had a custom format for the data (and they probably still do, as far as I know), so I wrote a utility to translate the tz format into XML for easy parsing. I literally haven’t touched the tool since, but with the recent time zone law changes in the US, I thought folks might be interested. Enjoy.