Here. From Hussein: As a Java developer, I was curious about the release of C#. Unfortunately, the list price of more than $1,000 for Microsoft’s developer environment, Visual Studio .NET, extinguished the appeal. I wanted to play with the language, but I couldn’t afford the investment. Thankfully, I discovered a free .NET development environment called SharpDevelop.
Here. I've heard from folks from all over the world that are using tomorrow as an opportunity to either dive into .NET for the first time or to build their pet project with .NET. People are splitting into teams, designing their entries and looking for 3rd party libraries to get them started, all without writing a single line of code until the stroke of midnight on the morning of August 30th in their local time zone. The competition is fierce, and while the prizes seem to have attracted people’s attention, I think it’s the competition that is getting folks excited. Should be fun! : )
Here. I've heard from individuals and teams all over the world who are going to participate in the "Spend A Day With .NET" coding contest on August 30th. And as the fever spreads, the prizes increase, now including five different software packages, 12 books, a free year of MSDN Universal and the grand prize, free admission to the Web Services DevCon. It's not too late to call in sick and send in your entry!
Here. "Of course, the flexibility and expressiveness of C++ that allowed this kind of thing to be built at the library level, instead of directly into the language itself, was both its best feature and its worst problem. C# eschews this kind of flexibility, and the complexity that follows, by simply building a foreach statement into the language that knows how to handle both arrays and custom types."
Here. From Razvan Caciula: "The .NET Framework Service Pack 2 (SP2) release focuses on security issues and other problems Microsoft has found since SP1's release; this release also includes all the fixes from .NET Framework SP1."
Here. There's only two more weeks to prepare (reading only - no coding!) for the "Spend A Day With .NET" Coding Content on August 30th.
Grand prize is free admission to the Web Services DevCon, but other prizes include a year subscription to MSDN Universal, a signed box copy of VS.NET, a half-day of consulting and free software and t-shirts galore!
Here. From Razvan Caciula: "This product also feature full support for new and emerging Web Services, integrated model driven development, and preview capabilities for the Microsoft.NET Framework. Delphi 7 supports a first true model driven architecture with new UML solutions bundled in, updated cross-platform testing capabilities and Linux support with KylixTM 3."
