AvePoint Introduces Free Tool for Item-Level SharePoint Restores from SQL Server and DPM Backups

Free module delivers full fidelity, item-level restore capability from SQL Server and DPM backups, providing customers with granular SharePoint content recovery.

See announcement here.

Product and download page: here

Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0

Microsoft has launched a useful tool for .NET web developers. Here under is the overview of the product (source: Microsoft).

Overview

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. The Web PI also helps keep your products up to date by always offering the latest additions to the Web Platform.

Here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx

SharePoint 2007: Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2008 (webcast from PDC 2008)

Here is an interesting webcast about how to build a SharePoint application using the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB13/

Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint

A colleague sent me an interesting Microsoft link for SharePoint developers. It provides all you need to know to build powerful SharePoint solutions.

Here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/