Here. What's new: "1) UI updated (i.e. exclude tracking info, bold `new' violations, application settings +more) 2) nearly every rule has been touched, most improved 3) addition of 40+ new rules 4) cmd-line version of tool greatly stabilized and improved 5) new, complete set of documentation" [Maciek Sarnowicz via Off Topic]

Here. "Mastering Visual Studio .NET, by Jon Flanders and Chris Sells "Most developers can perform the basics inside Visual Studio .NET, like creating a project, typing some code, compiling and debugging. Although Mastering Visual Studio .NET covers these topics, it does so very quickly. This book enables intermediate and advanced programmers the kind of depth that's really needed, such as advanced window functionality, macros, advanced debugging, and add-ins, etc. With this book, developers will learn the VS.NET development environment from top to bottom."

Here. "I did a rough experiment the other day with strange results. I created two console apps one is C# and the other if Visual C++ 7. The apps do calculations for Generation of the Mandelbrot Set and time how long it takes. The strange thing is that the Visual C# App is much faster than the C++ App. (1.5 secs per set for the C# App and 1.9 secs per set for the C++ App). This seems totally bizarre to me as I would have thought it would be the opposite. It puts me in the strange situation of thinking about rewritting my C++ fractal generator in C# to get more speed !!" [Windows Technology Off Topic Mailing List]

Here. Now *this* is the way that state should be managed in ASP.NET!

Here. From Michael Weinhardt: "Microsoft plans to deliver this fall a minor update to its Visual Studio.Net suite of development tools, said Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Microsoft's developer and platform evangelism."

Here. "Basically the class keeps track of the list of outstanding handles, and when it reaches a certain threshold it can force a GC. Basically the goal here is to do a cheap and easy extension to the GC to try and teach it about the relative expensive of unmanaged objects." This is the way that GDI+ deals with unmanaged resource reclamation and can be used for your own non-memory resources.

Here. "Microsoft's Rotor project, recently refreshed on June 25, 2002, includes source code for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) execution engine and frameworks, as well as compilers and other developer tools. The Rotor code can be used, modified, and re-distributed, for non-commercial experimentation, as a basis for courseware or lab projects, or as a guide to those who are developing their own CLI implementations under a simple shared-source license." [radio.weblogs.com/0105852/]

Here. "Welcome to the Windows Forms FAQ. Questions & Answers in this FAQ are from newsgroup posts, various mailing lists and the employees of Syncfusion. I have tried to mention the source wherever I could." George is a long-time colleague of mine at DevelopMentor as well as the chief author on MFC Internals, which spawned ATL Internals. [radio.weblogs.com/0105852/]