Here. "Chris Sells discusses permissions in .NET and how you can adapt the object model to protect smart clients while allowing well-known assemblies or sites to have additional permissions to provide users with additional services."

Here. From Hun Boon Teo: "The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the Common Language Runtime (CLR) are bytecode-based abstract stack machines. Since modern implementations include highly optimizing just-in-time (JIT) compilers, these machines are excellent targets for runtime code generation: the generation of new program code just prior to its execution."

Here. From Hun Boon Teo: Article by Dominik Gruntz from Journal of Object Technology (Nov-Dec 2002 Issue), this article shows some of the subtle difference between C# and Java.

Here. From Andrew Webb: The whitepaper (a Word file) is now available. And the Demo Files link, previously dead, now works.

Here. Sam Gentile's got the scoop on the Everett release updates to VC++, which he lists as: -98% ANSI/ISO Compliance -Forms Designer for Managed C++ -Security Features -Optimizer Improvements particuarly in floating point He's got the details. Check it out.

Here. "On November 7th, at the OOPSLA Conference in Seattle, WA, C# creator Anders Hejlsberg unveiled several potential language features for the next major release of Visual C# .NET. The four primary features Anders spoke about were: -Generics, a form of C++ templates that makes reusing existing code easier -Iterators, a construct that makes traversing collections of data significantly faster and easier -Anonymous methods, an easier way to perform simple tasks using delegates -Partial types, a means for programmers to split code across multiple files" All of these features sound really cool (not just generics), but unfortunately the presentation included no mention of when they'd actually ship...

Here. Shawn Wildermuth's new book, Pragmatic ADO.NET: Data Access for the Internet World, is awailable now. Shawn's a long-time friend of mine and I wrote the forward to the book, so I'm hardly unbiased, but it rocks! Enjoy.

Here. From Jesse Ezell: That release of Visual C# will include four new features: support for "generics," which is a form of a C++ template that can help C# developers build software more quickly; support for "iterators," which help developers create new code; anonymous methods, which ease development of what’s known as "event-driven" code; and support for "partial types," which make it easier to use C# for building large projects.