Imagelys Picture Styles is a graphics editor, designed to create seamless backgrounds, wallpapers, textures. It allows you to combine multiple layers with adjustable transparency, using a variety of sample textures and effects. You can create variations of a texture, create/edit masks, apply filters. Other features include standard image editing tools, web export, convert any image into a seamless pattern, image warping, flare effects and more.

Entity Developer Express is a free of charge powerful LINQ to SQL modeling and code generation tool. You can design LINQ to SQL entity model from scratch or reverse-engineer an existing database, in which case you will have the classes and the relations with just several clicks. Entity Developer for SQL Server uses standard Microsoft SqlClient, LINQ to SQL, and Entity Framework, all of them bundled with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.