From Spencer Harbar: The .NET Passport Manager Source Licensing Program enables developers and other interested individuals to access and use Passport Manager Source code for both commercial and noncommercial purposes, including the creation and distribution of derivatives of the licensed source code for non-Windows applications. Licensees are free to use the source code also to develop, debug, and support their own commercial software for integration with .NET Passport. Passport Manager Source code is available for installation with any version of .NET Passport.
From Jesse Ezell: Ximian released mono 0.17 today:
"Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET) which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple test web server to host asp.net has been released as well."
"Web Services Enhancements 1.0 for Microsoft .NET (WSE) provides advanced Web services functionality for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft .NET Framework developers to support the latest Web services capabilities. Enterprise ready applications can be developed quickly with the support of security features such as digital signature and encryption, message routing capabilities, and the ability to include message attachments that are not serialized into XML. Functionality is based on the WS-Security, WS-Routing, WS-Attachments and DIME specifications."
In their own wonderful way, Microsoft has changed the name yet again to the set of classes that they've put together to do heavy-duty web services stuff. It was GXA, then WSDK and now it is, finally and officially, the Web Services Enhancements (WSE). If you liked it with the old names, you'll love it with the new name. : )
"When I started looking at the source code for rotor, I couldn’t believe how invaluable it was. I also wanted to have an easy way of viewing classes in the files. So I wrote this little utility to help me out, to find common namespaces, classes, delegates, enums, etc in the source files."
This is an online browsable resource for digging into the source for a lot of the CLR base class library. Fabulous!
[JasonW or SamG -- it's hard to know]
"Chris talks with Carl and Mark about COM and .NET components, finalizers, disposing, Smart Client Windows Forms Applications (we still don't know what to call these things), how to navigate sellsbrothers.com, interview weed-out questions, and why he calls it Sells Brothers. Also, Chris finally clears up the age-old question of why C++ programmers feel so superior to mere humans."
A new episode of The .NET Show shipped today on the Compact Framework. More and more I want to use WinForms for smaller and smaller devices. I am looking forward to programming CF apps on my cell phone!
"C# Refactory is a revolutionary new tool which enhances Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET IDE. It performs a number of complex refactorings automatically, allowing you to shape and re-shape your code as needs arise. It also helps you identify code which needs attention by calculating metrics, from 'lines of code' all the way up to 'cyclomatic complexity'. It is fully integrated with the IDE - no external tools means that refactorings are always ready at your fingertips."
As I'm writing a bunch of book code just now, I'm not a good beta tester for this tool, but the descriptions of what it does look yummy. I would especially love Extract Method and Rename Type.
