I have never suspected that Microsoft had this built-in, but it appears to be the case. Code generator called T4, which targets both C# or VB.NET, is built into your copy of Visual Studio and is available as you read this article.

For years I was server-oriented developer, quite often writing code for Unix environment and helping others to do so. However I never mind doing occasional user-oriented application or two. Lately I've been doing a lot of .NET GUI development using WPF (Windows Presentation Framework). A small task seems to come up quite often.

Great new piece of software, recently discovered by me - Foxit PDF Reader. Just a few advantages over the standard Acrobat Reader: it's faster, simpler and, most important, it allows you to save data in PDF forms!

I like Drupal a lot. It's a great system, easy to set up and use, and the most important thing, there are plenty of modules, which provide additional functionality. However, every time the Drupal development team release a new major version, the module authors have to change their modules in order to adopt to the new platform.

Finally Firefox 3.0 is out, grab it fast :)

According to the press release from Mozilla Foundation, there is a new e-mail initiative, which will be developed via a separate entity to be formed by Mozilla and the head of ActiveState.

Ever wondered how to convert a Word document into PDF? Or wanted to share a PowerPoint presentation with a Linux user? You can do it very easily by using PDFCreator - an open source printing driver for Windows operating systems.

Some time ago Microsoft released a free sample - an HTTP server, written completely in .NET and able to host ASP.NET applications. It has been extended and improved by some other company, which now makes it available for download.

Google allow you to install a Java MIDLet (a small Java application for mobile platforms), which gives you access to your GMail account. Current version is 1.1.1.

There is an interesting review of the upcoming Windows Server.  The OS seems to be full of goodies to simplify daily administration tasks and to improve security.  It is nice to see, that PowerShell is finally making it into the OS - Microsoft keep on learning fron Uni