While I don't necessarily agree with surana, I so loved the way that he stated his opinions that I had to post it here (even if it is 3 weeks old!). My favorite quote is:
"...programmers are idiots... XP's pair programming is laughable. Can two idiots do much better than one?"
You gotta admire a guy that isn't afraid to speak his mind. : )
At OOPSLA late last year, the C# team made a splash by announcing some of the features they'll be adding to the compiler in the next next version of C# (not Everett). The C# language features page has that presentation as well as a very nice white paper discussing the new features in detail.
From Matthew Mastracci: I just released the third alpha version of my open-source .NET profiling application. It supports everything I've thrown at it so far (multi-threaded programs, NAnt, SWF apps) and is getting close to feature-complete.
It comes with a basic VS.NET add-in that lets you profile from DevStudio. There is a source package on the downloads page for those who are interested in tinkering.
Download it at http://nprof.sourceforge.net
This article presents the new features in WinForms, including new namespace features, new IDE features and how to develop apps that support multiple versions of the .NET Framework itself.
This is the first of a 3 part series I wrote as an appendix to my WinForms book because I couldn't find the topic of object serialization covered adequately elsewhere in any of the popular texts.
This part covers the basics of text and binary serialization for simple types.
