We've had a very busy two months getting Papers for Windows ready for a 1.0 release. And just a bit after Earth Day, we decided to release! Alex and company at Mekentosj announced the release here along with their release of Papers for Mac 2.2.

We released the first Papers for Windows pre-release on February 14th, and I’ve got to say, it’s been an exciting couple of days! We’ve learned a number of things from the release:

We’ve written a number of posts that talk about a client project that we’ve been working on for a while (NetSparkle, Xml Serialization, NHibernate, Date Parsing)

Finally we can talk about what we’ve been working on, and we’re really excited.

We’re working on a client project where one of the requirements was a Sparkle-style updating mechanism. For those of you who are Mac folks, you’ll be familiar with the Sparkle “A new version of YOUR FAVOURITE APP is available!” window, with the options to skip, remind me later, or install the update.

Fortunately, there are at least two open-source versions of Sparkle for .NET programmers:

Our client Capilix has won an Aquatech Innovation Award this year in the category of “Process Control & Automation”. That's great recognition for the hard work the folks at Capilix have put into their product line.