Here. From Jesse Ezell: That release of Visual C# will include four new features: support for "generics," which is a form of a C++ template that can help C# developers build software more quickly; support for "iterators," which help developers create new code; anonymous methods, which ease development of what’s known as "event-driven" code; and support for "partial types," which make it easier to use C# for building large projects.

Here. Michael Weinhardt and Chris Sells plumb the depths of .NET's regular expression engine.

Here. According to the AW web site, Essential .NET, by Don Box, with Chris Sells, is in stock and ships within 24 hours, and Amazon seems to agree. Enjoy!

Here. From Razvan Caciula: Microsoft announced the availability of beta 2 of the Microsoft .NET Speech Software Development Kit (SDK).

Here. "The 1.0 release builds and runs on Windows XP, the FreeBSD operating system, and Mac OS X 10.2. In addition, the release contains many bug fixes, more documentation, new samples and additional test suites." For low-level .NET weenies (like me : ), this is the stuff, baby!

Here. From Jesse Ezell: Project Mono can now execute SQL statements on MS SQL Server through TDS and has a bit of Windows.Forms code running on both Linux and Windows as well as a good deal of ASP.NET support. Looks like things are coming along at a decent rate.

Here. From cn: "Chris Sells, who actually created a code generation product, was unable to convince me of the importance of code generation. Why did one of my friends succeed where the other failed?" Rebuttal, please?

Here. Shawn's a long-time friend of mine and an excellent writer who understands the importance of story, even for technical pieces. Congrats, Shawn!