Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Beta. This release is meant mostly for developers and designers, so that they can test the new browser. Here are some new features and improvements worth noting.

Building LOB applications for both WPF clients and AJAX web sites, supporting high level business abstractions and n-tier application topologies is not an easy task. CodePlant represents the model driven environment and complete application framework that supports and enables such scenarios.

A good source on setting up sourcesafe access over HTTP/HTTPS

A detailed article about the making of Blogo.NET, a good-looking internet blog application build using ASP.NET (.NET 3.5, LINQ). The articles explains the development process from start to end (requirements, architecture, database design, implementation of Data Access, Business Layer, Page Architect...

This article provides an at-a-glance look at CSS compliance across recent versions of Internet Explorer, including support in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers and planned support in the final version of Internet Explorer 8.

When Internet Explorer 8 is installed, built-in Java Script debugger ships along. Since this is an in-proc debugger one need not launch a separate app

As Shreesh mentioned in his blog, Internet Explorer 8 has a built-in JScript debugger. . .

Since the IE development team releasing the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8 for developers last week, I've had the chance to play around with this latest incarnation of the Internet Explorer family. While most of the focus has been on the improved support for web standards, which is immed...

I’m happy to share that we have two new features in IE8 that makes this easier: Activities and WebSlices.

Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1 was unveiled today at Mix08. If you want to try out Internet Explorer Beta 1 without tainting your system, check out the Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1 Virtual PC images. The current image expires on July 3, 2008.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download

Activities are contextual menu options which quickly access a service from any Web page. Users typically copy and paste from one Web page to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

Preparing for IE8 using web standards and version adaptation.

"Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later." This is an error you can suddenly get after moving your ASP.NET application to a secure server. This post explains why and how to solve this.