With MIX, and meeting the announced MVC roadmap , the new versions of AS.NET Extensions are now publicly available.ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 is available also as separate download, same as Silverlight 2.0 BETA 1 (and Expression studio, Silverlight VS 2008 Tools). Download Links: ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions...

Finally, the Popfly beta is available to the general public! What's Popfly, you ask? It's the mashup tool for the Silverlight generation and a community site to go with it. Mashups, that's that AJAX stuff, right? Not anymore! Why should mashups have to be limited to AJAX-y things like HTML and JavaScript...

Joe & The VB Team has a tip for building Orcas projects with Expression Blend 2 . This trick allows Blend2 to build projects using MSBuild 3.5 (the version Orcas uses). This should mean that projects created using Silverlight tools for Orcas will be compatible with Blend2. It does appear to fix the...