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Latest version of Kailua released

We have merged all of our .NET open source code into the Kailua project and just put a new release up here. Like many other companies, we have made good use of open source code and this is our way of giving back.

We have also contributed in various places in the Java world but there we are merely contributors to existing projects. In this case, we have created our own open source project and we have had several thousand downloads to date.

What this provides is:

  • A very lightweight API for ADO.NET that adds some basic functionality. We have drivers for Sql Server, Oracle, DB2, MySql, ODBC.NET, and OleDb.NET that adds things like a standard way to put parameters in a select statement.
  • An extension to TimeZone that can create a TimeZone for any of the timezones in the world and can set their time changes for any given year. This information actually exists in the Windows registry so all we have to do is retrieve it.
  • A class that will open an XML file for almost any given sharing configuration (such as is a share for domain users on a domain you are not on).

If you find this code useful, please do let us know.

AutoTag 5.0 is entering beta

Well we finally made it. I hate the last 2 months of the development cycle because the end seems so close but it's still weeks of hard slogging away. But we're through that. We've finished the internal beta except for 1 piece of code that should go in Monday.

So early next week - customer beta! And if you would like to see a preview - click here.

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