Microsoft .NET Framework Service Pack 2 (7 MB) provides the latest updates to the .NET Framework. Service Pack 2 is highly recommended by Microsoft for all users of the .NET Framework, including customers of Visual Studio .NET.
Microsoft .NET Framework Service Pack 2 Released
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they’ve fixed the C# debugger thingie….
This one looks important
“Search Consumes All Available CPU Time on Windows XP After You Install .NET Framework”
I really don’t like the XP search tool anyway. The little dog is stupid.
i don’t have a dog in my search tool.. i just know it does not work..
“The .NET Framework is a new feature of Windows. Applications built using the .NET Framework are more reliable and secure.”
riiiight..
http://users.adelphia.net/~geek/dog.jpg
screen shot above, you can kill or change it in “change prefrences”. I opted for the kill, I think it’s dead.
#find / -name “animated crap” 2>/dev/null | wc -l
0
Just wish when you turned the thng off it wouldn’t waste my time animating it so it runs off into the background.
Really annoying since I beta test Windows, not so much annoying now since SP1 doesn’t have so many builds released to testers, but during the XP beta, it was a real pain.
I know this is only somewhat related, but it’s as good a place as any to bring it up.
I love the internet and all the things I can do with it. However, one drawback to the internet has been the quality of software we buy.
Before the internet was popular, companies would release software with a sharper eye to quality. Those who rushed buggy software out to market soon went out of business.
Once the world was introduced to the internet, however, the release of software changed considerably. New versions are released annually, if not on a more frequent schedule, and the quality is usually underwhelming.
On the day Microsoft released XP, there were over 20 megabytes of updates that needed to be downloaded and applied to resolve issues with it. .NET has only been out for about six months and already there have been two service packs released for it.
Once .NET is out of its beta stage (service pack 5 or 6) and once Microsoft has decided what it really is and what direction they want to go with it, and once it is supported across all the platforms I use, perhaps I will look at it more seriously as a development platform, until that time I’m happy with what I have.
“Once .NET is out of its beta stage (service pack 5 or 6) and once Microsoft has decided what it really is and what direction they want to go with it…”
If .NET is still beta, then Java is still alpha. I think that you are the only one that doesn’t “know” what .NET really is. I sure do, and MS certainly does.
-G
Well I use to proudly call myself a VB programmer now that .Net has come out … and MS want to shaft us on pricing, there is no way I’m spending $2000 just to get .Net
MS you’ve lost a developer …
BTW, I had to reload the drivers for my onboard (C-Media) soundcard a while back after making various updates (one of which was the .NET framework). I had to do the same thing agian today after installing the service pack.
> there is no way I’m spending $2000 just to get .Net
The last time I checked, Visual Studio professional cost $999, while if you want C#, you can download the 150 MB framework/compilers for free, and then use the GPLed SharpDevelop to develop what you need.
> had to reload the drivers for my onboard (C-Media) soundcard
It seems that the CMedia drivers are buggy. Windows’ biggest problem is that it supports so much hardware, because many hardware companies have no clue how to write drivers. Example: It took Creative 2 whole years to make the SBLive! driver to play well with SMP. BeOS had its driver right since day 1, because the people who wrote the driver under BeOS were actually Be engineers, knowing what the f*ck they were coding on.
<<Well I use to proudly call myself a VB programmer now that .Net has come out … and MS want to shaft us on pricing, there is no way I’m spending $2000 just to get .Net>>
You know…you can just buy VB.NET….I think I saw it for $149…or even on M$ site they have the upgrade to Visual Studio to VS.NET for $500.
Cheap .NET tools? It’s a lie.
All the standalone development tools for .NET are crippled.
For instance, the Visual C++.NET doesn’t include an optimizing compiler.
#m
The wonderful side-effect of using the service pack is that ClearType now works again.
The original install of .NET crippled ClearType.
Sad to say, but the new one isn’t any faster than the old one. Runtime performance is still 1/10 that of native code for GUI apps.
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“Runtime performance is still 1/10 that of native code for GUI apps”
This is simply not true. While it is definitely slower than native code, it is nowhere as slow as you suggest. In fact, it is surprisingly fast.
-G
There is no way you can say .NET GUI is “surprisingly fast”. Compared to what? Standing still?
.NET cripples Windows apps for draw/paint speed. Try scrolling any of the .NET TreeList widgets. They just creep along.
C# memory management is slow. C# GUI is slow. There is still major overhead.
I can run a simple demo — with ONE widget — and what do I get:
Mem Usage : 38,964K
Peak Mem Usage: 51,260K
Page Faults: 73,720
VM Size: 28,688K
That’s a giant footprint for a tiny demo app.
And it’s slower than Java.
Try and tell me people are writing real client/enduser applications today in .NET.
If it doesn’t work well on a dual 1Ghz P3 with 1GB RAM, what’s the target machine? Pentium 5?
.NET might unify all the Windows API’s, but it certainly has made them slow as well.
#m
o.k. i may stop laughing any minute now :o)