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F# in Visual Studio 2008 for Free

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:53:44 GMT

With "Visual Studio 2008 Shell" we can use F# in Visual Studio without the need to purchase a Visual Studio license!

Announcing RikMigrations

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:31:02 GMT

A new open source database migrations framework for .NET. Brings Ruby-on-Rails style migrations to .NET but without being part of a huge project - just migrations!

Ruby.NET 0.9 released (first community OS version)

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Ruby.NET is a compiler that translates Ruby source code into .NET intermediate code. They are close to a release (I think Msft licensed some of their code for IronRuby) and it might be worthwhile investigating if you can't wait for the DLR and IronRuby.