Here. "The following document describes changes between versions of the .NET Framework that might affect the backward or forward compatibility of your application. Information is also provided about the types of changes that can cause incompatibilities, ways to modify your application to work around incompatibilities, and how to test and run your application on different versions of the .NET Framework."
And so begins the grand experiment of whether it's actually possible to version the .NET runtime and keep everything running and working.
Here. "Features present in Beta1:
-Generate XML documentation files directly from the VB source files
-Integrated into Visual Studio.NET
-Integrated into the Property grid for VB projects
-Integrated into the Build process
-Conversion of regular comments to XML comments
-Automaticly generate documentation XML documentation stubs for elements in the code"
Lots of VB.NET folks have wondered why the C# boys get XML docs and they don't. Now they do.
[win_tech_off_topic]
Here. From Bernard Vander Beken: From the readme:
"This is the second major release of the xUnit based unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET. It is written
entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features,
for example custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities."
"In the next few weeks we will be
formulating the next release trying to incorporate as many requests as possible."
Here. The Alladyn library unifies the various browser Document Object Models (DOMs) into a single object model, leting you write one set of JScript code for your dynamic sites and have it work across browsers. The library let you program Flash-like sites that don't use Flash. The gallery demos how much you can do.
It's hard to tell from the site, but it seems to support IE4+, NS4+, Opera and Mozilla. And it does all this in 2403 bytes! Truly amazing.
Two months ago, I noted a fall in morale in
the IT industry amongst my friends and colleagues. I wondered whether
the best people in the industry who’d been fighting for a sane
development process, but living without it because people were handing out
cars as signing bonuses, would rather not work in another industry when
the cars were no longer available and the fight for what was right
didn’t seem to make as much difference any more. Yesterday, one of the
people that I’d put into the “right up there” category,
Justin Rudd, announced his intention to pack it in and go back to school
to be a doctor.
This kind of thing shakes my own faith. Should I continue to bust my
hump on the latest and greatest technologies or ditch it all and start
that novel I’ve got in the back of my head? I still really love doing
the former, but it seems that everyone has to work a lot harder for a
lot less these days. Maybe I just need to readjust my thinking, but
damn, being smack dab in the middle of an economic boom really does a
number on you! I feel like the guy who found a silver mine in the middle
of the gold rush. I don’t have any trouble feeding my family and it’s
not fool’s gold, but I still pine for those deep, yellow nuggets…
