.NET Archive

Delphi for .NET is here and Xavier Pacheco provides an overview of Delphi for .NET, with a focus how to use Delphi to develop software for business solutions.

This article provides an overview of the generics feature in Visual Basic 2005, and explains the basic concepts involved in defining and using generics and their usefulness to the Visual Basic developer.

wx.NET 0.5 official has been released. Their webpage has also been updated: user manual, API reference, class status, and screenshots.

Brad Abrams describes the System namespace, which is the root of all namespaces in the .NET Framework, containing all other namespaces as subordinates. Elsewhere, in another chapter, Dan Kent picks apart the code of the online community application seeing how it works.

Get all the links for .NET 1.x and 2.0 SDK and Redistributable Betas at ActiveWin. Elsewhere, with the codename "Whidbey", the new visual studio, has reached finally Beta 1 and Flexbeta has prepared a few screenshots.

Shortly after the QT theme engine release, DotGNU announces the availability of the XP theme engine for its implementation of WinForms. The new XP engine allows DotGNU WinForms to use literally thousands of custom designed "visual styles", such as those available from ThemeXP.org. Screenshots 1 and 2. On other .NET-related news, Monodevelop 0.5 is released, #develop Fidalgo RC2 was released 3 days ago and wx.NET Beta 2 was released late last week.

Microsoft is including Visual Studio Team System technology in the first beta of Visual Studio 2005, to be released at TechEd Europe. More info about it here and here.

Maybe you haven't worked with state machines since your college computer science courses. Jon Shemitz offers a reason to dust off the technique with .NET: object-oriented state machines can be easier to read and debug than their enum and switch equivalents.

SharpDevelop Fidalgo (1.0) has now entered Release Candidate status with this RC1 release. As with Beta 1, no features have been added, only two existing ones have been improved to be more useful: you now can convert entire projects from VB.NET to C# (and vice versa), as well as import ASP.NET projects from VS.NET. Other than that, we have worked on two major areas (and will continue to work on): Bug fixes and performance improvements (for details please see the Subversion change log). Its Mono port, MonoDevelop, had version 0.4 releasing yesterday.

Three MSDN articles: Dare Obasanjo provides examples of lesser-known class functionality in System.Xml.Schema namespaces. This second of a three-part article series explains how to write, install, and debug your own tasks to enhance what is possible to build with MSBuild. While ASP.NET 2.0 is completely backwards compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, its new features may require you to revise parts of your Web applications. This article provides a detailed analysis of how changes in ASP.NET 2.0 will influence your porting decisions.

Pocket C# is port of C# compiler from DotGNU project to Windows CE. DotGNU contains open-source runtime, compiler and tools creating a free cross-platform .NET environment.

Scott Mitchell looks at the benefits of and confusion around View State in Microsoft ASP.NET. In addition, he shows you how you can interpret (and protect) the data stored in View State.

Does a solution written for Microsoft .NET have to be 100% .NET? Scott Hanselman looks at how hybrid managed-unmanaged solutions are really the norm.

There's been a lot of chatter about Mono, recently, varying from "its a killer dev platform!" all the way to, "the patent issues are going to destroy us all!" And yet, in all this chatter, there has been relatively little chatter about DotGNU or Portable.NET. Well, you know what they say: learning is FUNdamental...