A new tool called Sitecore Rocks has been released in a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version - a early sneak peek. The tool, although a little rough around the edges, really shows a bright new future for Sitecore development, a future where we as developers do not need to muck about with browsers interfaces, only to connect our code, .NET pages and user controls into Sitecore. Now we can stay within in the tool we use and like, Visual Studio.
Today we will create a news previewer that let's you show your latest articles or news in a compact way. The news previewer will show some list of articles on the left side and the preview of the article with a longer description on the right. Once a news on the left is clicked, the preview will slide in.
A preview release of a component that extends the standard Sitecore Searching mechanisms, specifically, the relatively "new" Sitecore.Search namespace introduced in 6.0 and provides easy search querying APIs