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JetBrains , the creators of the IntelliJ IDEA Java development tool, have an early release version of a Visual Studio .NET add-in for C# called ReSharper . You can learn more about ReSharper by viewing Luke Hutteman's and Michael Yuan's blog posts to...

Visual C# Whidbey really does rock, don't believe me? I'll show you in this MSDN TV episode . Things I showed: Language/Framework Features Generics Anonymous Methods DataSet XML serialization File class enhancements IDE Features...

One of the features that I'm most looking forward to in Visual Studio “Whidbey” is visualizers . As you can see (no pun intended) in the XML visualizer above, visualizers are a useful and very powerful way to help debug applications...

As most of you probably know, companies like Google, Yahoo, and MSN have created their own Internet Explorer toolbars with added functionality. Besides integrated search, one of the most used features is blocking pop-ups, an overdue feature for Internet...

J. Daniel Smith in the comments to my last post writes: “ Why doesn't the new Sound control support WMA files? (Yes, I know it's just a wrapper around the Win32 control...) But still, this "mixed messaging" from Microsoft is a bit annoying at...

I have to confess: I've been coding again...its my one escape from the 104 flagged emails that need responses or large amounts of work done, and the as-yet uncovered firedrills which I'm sure are just one Outlook-sync away. For now, I blog... Recipe...

Brian Keller points out the newly released J# Browser Controls 1.1b beta . If you have the source code for a Java applet, you can use the J# browser controls and have your code running on the .NET Framework in a couple of minutes. This is pretty powerful...

Shaykat Chadhuri from the C# team has started blogging. Subscribed :) Shaykat is also in charge of samples for Whidbey so you can send him your requests directly. Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc RSS: http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/Rss.aspx

It looks like Brian's blogging again, and he has some fascinating gossip on Barbie and Ken's breakup and the rumor that C# & J# are dating. I'm sure your asking yourself whether Brian is heavily medicated, and I can assure you that his medication...

**Changed title for correctness :) In case you didn't see this, Slashdot has two discussions on the Anders Hejlsberg interview series conducted by Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners. Talk amongst yourselves.... Generics in C# and Java How C# was...

Robert Green from the Visual Basic team has started blogging, should be some interesting stuff on that * other * language. Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/ RSS: http://weblogs.asp.net/rgreen_msft/Rss.aspx

In the Q&A after my ASP.NET talks at MDC, someone asked whether the new ASP.NET 2.0 TreeView control can render nodes and subnodes in languages that read from right to left like Arabic. I tried testing this by dropping a TreeView control and looked...

As Duncan points out, the Java Language Conversion Assistant, version 3.0 is now in an open beta . The big change is the support for converting J2EE 1.3 libraries including EJB, JAAS, JCE, JMS, JNDI, and RMI. If a company has existing investments in J2EE...

I've been playing around with Partial Types in Visual Studio “Whidbey“ after a developer asked me how the Extract Interface refactoring will work when applied to partial types. First a quick primer on partial types - Partial types lets...

Travis Bright from the JLCA team has started a blog. Should be lots of good info on migrating Java applications to C# here... http://blogs.msdn.com/tbright/

Below are some recently released articles on C# Whidbey, definitely check them out Three Cool New Features in C# by Markus Egger http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0303072 C# 2.0 Code Refactoring by Juval Lowy http://www...