From Ben Kohn: See demonstrations of a variety of useful techniques and approaches that can be leveraged to help build powerful ASP.NET Web applications and Web Services. Learn about: debugging, tracing, event logging, performance counters, error handling, Web form session state, sending email from, file upload and others.
If you haven't done .NET yet because your company hasn't upgraded to VS.NET or you don't want to spend the money if you're not going to like it, you can get a 60-day eval copy in exchange for giving up some personal details.
A VS.NET add-in that provides the following C# refactoring operations:
-Encapsulate Field
-Extract Method
-Inline Temp
-Introduce Explaining Variable
-Move Method new
-Rename Field
-Rename Method
-Rename Property
-Rename Local Variable
-Rename Parameter
-Replace Magic Number with Symbolic Constant
-Replace Temp with Query
It seems to be implemented in Java and then ported to .NET via J# and the web site has the coolest little visitor counter control.
An interview of Peter Hallam, the dev. lead for the C# compiler. Most of the interview covers stuff you're likely to already know, e.g. the design goals for C# and the CLR, etc, but Mr. Hallam does spend some time talking about generics and his opinion on mono (he likes it).
This is a pretty comprehensive, and pretty even-handed, comparison (Java gets kudos for doing some things better than C# and vice versa). If you're still curious about how the other half lives, check it out, but I'll bottom line it for you:
C# and Java are pretty much the same language. The real differences are in the respective libraries, not the languages.
