ADO.NET team writes about changes that brings the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta. This changes are divided on three following big parts:

• Schema Changes( covers CSDL, SSDL and ProviderManifest Xml formats)

• Object Services Changes

• Providers

• Metadata

You can read the full version of this post in the ADO.NET team blog.

Opera Mini 4.1 released recently. David Chartier write about this release the following:

«Opera today released version 4.1 of its Opera Mini browser for mobile phones that can run Java applications. Even though version 4.0 just landed last November, version 4.1 makes an equally significant splash with a number of new features for searching, exchanging files, and archiving pages for offline viewing.

Topping out Opera Mini 4.1's new features is the ability to search text on the current web page. Turning out towards the rest of the web, however, Opera Mini 4.1 can also recognize and suggest URLs when typing in the address field. These suggestions are based on your bookmarks (which can be synchronized with a desktop copy of Opera via the company's Opera Link feature) and browsing history.»

You can read the full version of this article on th Ars Technica site.

There is an intresting article about creating LINQ quries with IN statement posted in Rob Connoory Blog. He writes:

«An IN query will pull back a set of results from SQL that is within a given range. This range can be set manually, or can itself be a query. So if you have an eCommerce application and you want to know what products you have in a given user’s cart, you could do this (using AdventureWorks):

PostgreSQL 8.3 was released. Here's a small exerpt from release info:
"Today the PostgreSQL Global Development Group releases the long-awaited version 8.3 of the most advanced open source database, which cements our place as the best performing open source database. Among the performance features you'll be excited about in 8.3 are: