WebDeploy .NET

WebDeploy [http://weblogs.asp.net/mhawley/category/4043.aspx?Show=All] is a small windows application that allows a developer to easily transfer files (VS.NET web project) from one location to another based on extensions. It looks great for web deployment of projects over a network or internet (via…

52% of application developers use .NET

52% of application developers use .NET [http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P1247] … Is .Net Stealing Java’s Thunder? [http://www.webservicespipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=?articleId=23900832&printableArticle=true]…

Web Service Benchmarks

Microsoft Responds to Sun’s Web Service Benchmarks [http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=27339]. MS released a whitepaper [http://www.middlewareresearch.com/whitepapers/Benchmark_response.pdf] comparing the .NET and J2EE Web Service performance.…

Convert C# to VB.NET

Convert C# code snippets to their equivalent in VB.NET using these web-based tools at developerfusion [http://www.developerfusion.com/utilities/convertcsharptovb.aspx], aspalliance [http://authors.aspalliance.com/aldotnet/examples/translate.aspx] and another one by Kamal Patel [http://www.kamalpatel.net/ConvertCSharp2VB.aspx].…

Visual IL

Visual IL [http://blogs.msdn.com/craigskibo/archive/2004/07/12/180991.aspx] by Craig Skibo is an interesting IL (Intermediate Language) development environment (currently in beta). This sure goes a level deeper than C# and VB.NET, for direct IL development rather than relying on the IL compiler.…

Comega

Comega [http://research.microsoft.com/Comega/], a Microsoft research project, is an experimental language which extends C# with new constructs for relational and semi-structured data access and asynchronous concurrency. Downloadable here [http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/default.aspx].…

ReSharper: C# Refactoring Tool

ReSharper: C# Refactoring Tool [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/]. ReSharper is an add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003 that brings intelligent C# code editing, highlighting and refactoring features to Visual Studio.…

.NET 2.0 SDK

.NET Framework 2.0 (Beta 1 ) SDK is available for download [http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/downloads/default.aspx] now.…