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“The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation.  If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2.“

More information and downloading can be found HERE.

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If you want to know more, see Asif's post.

Originally posted at my new blog.

A few hours ago I've received the news: I've been renewed with the MVP award for another year.

Originally posted at my new blog.

Although the development of Linq4SP has been finished since a few weeks,
unfortunately we had to be faced a few (sales and marketing based) issues during
publishing it. So if you've downloaded and started to use the Linq4SP, probably
you experienced an error message in the last days: "Your expiration date is
reached! You need to purchase a license file to run this software."

We apologize for the inconvenience. Today a new version was uploaded, which
has the same bits and no functional differences, but the time bomb is extended
to January 1, 2009. You can download it from
here.

We're working on the solving of our problems, and hopefully the final version
can be released at the beginning of December. In a few days I'll be back with
further informations.

Thanks for your understand, and let us know if there is anything we can help
with.

• Before RC2 in case of choosing more than one site to generate, the Generator
  had managed the sites and lists in a wrong way. With RC2 you are able to use
  more than one site in the same time, without these uncomfortable issues.
• in case of lookup fields configured incorrectly (for example, task lists of
  team sites), the Generator skip the wrong column, instead of freezing
• concurency handling

If you're interested, you can download the Linq4SP RC2 from here. Of
course, if you find some bugs errors or anything strange, don't hesitate to contact us!

The Linq4SP RC1 is available to download now: you can play with it, try the features and abilities, and feel the power of this brand new developer extension.

Just download Linq4SP RC1 here.
To start using it, copy the files to your WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 server.
The DLL file must be in the same folder as the Generator.

After
starting the Generator, open your site collection and select the sites
to be available in the Linq4SP context. After that you can select the
lists and libraries to be used in your Linq4SP expressions, and finally
generate the context.

As next step include the generated source file and the attached dll to your Visual Studio project and that's it.

Enjoy!

The
documentation is under construction, but you can find a simple CHM help
file in the ZIP package as well. Moreover, there is a sample site as
well as test cases, that can help you in starting to use Linq4SP. I
hope, you'll find them useful.

After your playing with Linq4SP, I'd be very happy if you could send us your questions, opinions or any feedback.

… You can read the full article on my new blog

… You can read the full article on my new blog.