Here. From Bernard Vander Beken: From the release notes of this unit testing framework: "This barring any unforeseen new critical bugs will be the last V2.0 release candidate. We will not be adding any additional features until V2.0 is released which we expect now to be sometime around 26 September, 2002."

"The beta of the .NET Framework version 1.1 SDK and Redistributable is now available, along with the add-on to build and run J# applications. We encourage you to download these and provide us with feedback. You may register for the beta program to access these downloads at http://www.betaplace.com. Use the following userID and password to gain access to the site: ID: SDKBETA Password: SIGNMEUP" [Brian Harry, DOTNET-CLR]

Here. From Andrew Webb: Even if you don't want to download the beta, this article gives a nice overview of what to expect in the 1.1 version of .NET Framework. Note the 'Developer Tools Roadmap' link at top-right of the Beta Overview page. www.gotdotnet.com has an article about forwards and backwards compatibility between 1.0 and 1.1.

Here. "Intentional Software Corporation (ISC) is a software engineering company dedicated to assisting software developers in capturing the tremendous latent value that is usually lost in the design and development process. Another name for this latent value is the intent behind the software, so we call this approach Intentional Software." I've been following Charles work for years, starting with Hungarian Notation (a really good idea at the time, believe me : ) and culminating in his more recent Intentional Programming efforts. I'm very interested in what kinds of tools he's going to be bringing to the world.

Here. From Jesse Ezell: Project Mono has decided that implementing WinForms natively on platforms is just too hard. They are instead going to implement a Win32 version and use WINE Lib for the linux / mac implementation. We'll see if they stay this way. IMO, if things don't change, WinForms on Project Mono has now become about as important as Microsoft 'Bob'. Who wants to run on top of the WINE code? It has problems running normal Win32 apps, let alone .NET apps.

Here. From Keith Wedinger: What if your current application is currently a Java EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) implementation? Is it worth the cost and effort to migrate to Microsoft's new platform?

Here. From Jim Wilson: The DevelopMentor .NET Compact Framework Tools and Samples page is finally available. Check it out to see if there is something that you need or if you have something that you think would be helpful to others please post it.

Here. From Jesse Ezell: Bamboo.Prevalence now contains support for the transparent prevalence concept. In the end, it was decided to use proxies rather than context bound objects, but you still get a completely transparent object persistance system.