We have launched the product really just a few weeks ago and we are already collecting what I would call raving reviews.  Check out what some respected blogger think about Aggiorno:

Microsoft Joe Stagner (the Misfit geek) Artinsoft Aggiorno fixes your web pages.:"I've only started playing with it, I'm already convinced it's impressive enough to blog about. It leverages Artinsoft's "conversion" expertise but in this case convert your web page into a BETTER web page" and Aggiorno - Improving the web one tag at a time.

Two to Tango Peter Eysermans Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you've always wanted: "This tool is in my top 5 of best visual studio plug-ins."

Microsoft Tim Heuer Aggiorno, XHTML, your site and added value: "(ArtinSoft) team “gets it” which is good and they have some smart folks on the team."

Last week at PDC we showed the product to many people and got great feedback of Aggiorno 1.2 and the 1.3 version that we previewed.  Version 1.3 includes a new feature that will really rock your dev world.  Stay tuned.

Next week Aggiorno will be sharing a booth with the Internet Explorer 8 team at Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles.  We are even one of the official sponsors of the PDC Badges and here is ours:

We'll be showing off all the features that make Aggiorno an ideal companion for IE8 developers and we will also be demoing the new extensibility model for Aggiorno.  You'll be able to write your own Aggiorno Transformations on the fly.  You're productivity will sky rocket!

Visit us at the IE8 booth, get your badge and wear it proudly.  We'll have surprise prizes!

It’s been a great couple of weeks and there has been a lot of action going on. We started at Web 2.0 Expo in New York, two weeks ago, sharing the booth with the Internet Explorer 8 team and it was great! Lots of positive feedback for Aggiorno. A lot of people were interested in what we are doing and we got the chance to show some of you how much value can our transformations bring to your web sites.

As part of this visit to the Big Apple, we also had the opportunity to visit the .NET User Group at the Microsoft Offices in Manhattan, where we had the chance to introduce Aggiorno to a great group of people and we will be back in the spring for a full session on how Aggiorno can stream line you Web development tasks, along with a couple of great features we’d have prepared by then. Also in the last couple of weeks we got the chance to support Microsoft in several of their events related to its MSDN Tour Latin America. We had the chance to introduce the new Internet Explorer 8 as well as the integration features we have for making your site shine under Microsoft’s newest browser.

During these events we have been giving away licenses of Aggiorno plus a whole year of updates, news and more transformations, just as you would when getting the retailed Full Version of Aggiorno. We hope these guys are enjoying it as much as we do building it. Now the time has come for PDC, Microsoft’s most important conference this year, and we will be there! We will be sharing the booth again with the Internet Explorer team, where we will be showing you how easy it is to get your code to standard compliance as well as some really neat features for getting your own personalized transformations up and running, just as if you were creating templates. Come join us and be part of this great experience, we build Aggiorno to be a platform of knowledge encapsulation by means of providing business value to your Web development, giving you back time you didn’t have so you can put in place in making your dev dreams come true!

We have heard you!  The Beta program for Aggiorno is very successfull and we have received lots of feedback on different aspects of the product.

Something that has come up over and over again has been a request to also make Aggiorno available as a stand alone tool and not only as a Visual Studio add in.

Well... we've heard you.  We are already at work in preparing a stand alone version.  This version will be released on the Visual Studio Shell and will be available shortly after Aggiorno for Visual Studio 1.0 releases (by the way... this will happen soon, very soon!).

For all of you who are interested in how Aggiorno can help you simplify your daily work as web developers but who do not use Visual Studio, please stay tuned as we will be making announcements soon!

We just uploaded Aggiorno RC0 to our site. 

We are getting closer every day to a final polished release that will make us proud.

This version fixes a number of small imperfections.  You feedback is invaluable, please give Aggiorno a try and let us know what you think.

ArtinSoft launched this morning the Beta 2 version of Aggiorno during TechEd.  The full press release can be viewed at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/docs/artinsoft2.doc

Here's an excerpt: "

ORLANDO, Fla. – June 3 2008 – Today Artinsoft Corp. announced the release of the second public beta of Aggiorno (www.aggiorno.com ), an extension to both Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, through the Visual Studio Integration Program (VSIP), that brings expert knowledge and productivity to web developers.  With Aggiorno, web developers easily make their ASP.NET or HTML sites compliant with the latest web standards using the latest technology trends suggested by industry experts and immediately incorporating business value. "

We are getting closer and closer to a final release and everyday we are more excited about the functionality of the product and its value for web developers.

A Beta 1 refresh has been uploaded.  The major fixes that have been incorporated are:

1) VS Integration problems: Some of you have reported an issue while invoking Aggiorno.  A DTE error that produced an exception.  This should now be fixed.

2) The error: “File was not properly opened. Please open it as part of a Web Site or Web Application” should no longer appear.  We have generalized quite a bit the invocation method of Aggiorno and you should be able to use it on any HTML or ASP.NET file or section of a file.

3) Windows Vista Privileges: Aggiorno no longer tries to write to system protected directories.  You should no longer require Administrator privileges while running Aggiorno on Vista.

4) Many other smaller bug fixes were applied.  For a complete list, please look at the release notes after installing.

As with the first beta we want YOU to squeeze it, bend it, criticize, suggest, laugh, and cry.  PLEASE, let us know of any issue you encounter and we will work with you to solve it and to consider it as part of a future release.

Write to support@aggiorno.com, or, browse to http://aggiorno.com/forums and post your question.

To download please go to: http://www.aggiorno.com/download.aspx

Thank you so much for willing to help us rock the world of Web standards!

The Aggiorno Team is very happy to announce that Beta1 of our product is available as an add-in for Visual Studio 2005/2008.

The first beta version of Aggiorno is ready, and we want you to try it out. Squeeze it, bend it, criticize, suggest, laugh, and cry. The more you smash it against your daily sites, the more thankful we will be. Whenever you feel a button should be red, tell us. Whenever intuition whispers you in the ear that our UI is not intuitive, please please please tell us.

Write to support@aggiorno.com, or, browse to http://aggiorno.com/forums and post your question.

To download please go to: http://www.aggiorno.com/download.aspx

Thank you so much for willing to help us shake the world of Web standards!

Web developers and designers continually face choices about the web sites that they build. Often it seems that obtaining a desired look forces the design away from standards or making an accessible website automatically makes it “boring”. In actual fact, these are false choices, and especially with the advent of more standards-compliant browsers, it’s possible to construct fully standards-compliant Web sites with great accessibility.

We just released a white paper by Gareth Powell that addresses the main issues on how to make a page accessible.  You can find it in the following link

White Paper: Clean, crisp, accessible HTML – why not?.  Send us your comments in this thread!

Enjoy!

Web site validation is an issue that will become increasingly important with the emergence of newer, even more standards-compliant browsers. Browsers which, for the first time, will treat with contempt – possibly even reject – ill-formed websites. Upcoming versions of both Firefox and Explorer promise rigorous standards-compliant rendering.

Are you up to the challenge?  Gareth Powell explores the fundamental notions on web site validation, DOCTYPE validation and its consequences in the white paper: "Web Site Validation: The Fundamentals".  Check it out, it is worth it!