Luke Hoban, the guy who wrote this , has started blogging. If you want to know what's going on with C# Express, you'll definitely want to subscribe to Luke's blog... Luke talks about the concept behind starter kits and about the C# RSS Screensaver...

There's been lots of news coverage on Visual Studio Beta 1, the MSDN relaunch, and of course Express . Soma, the Developer Division VP blogged about Express and the Express contest Our Express blog is up and rolling The ASP.NET Forums have...

If you're not interested in using Express or if you want to use the tools available in the .NET Framework SDK (ildasm, wincv, etc), you can download the SDKs (and redists) at the locations provided below: .NET Framework 2.0 SDK betas (by proc type...

In coordination with the launch of the Express products , I'm “Super-Excited”™ to announce the Summer of Express Contest on Channel9 !!! It's time to break out the hot dogs and belt out some code as the good folks at Channel9 our...

RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit in C# Express One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in RSS Screen saver Starter Kit. If you’ve never built a screensaver before, or if you have never written code that uses RSS, then you’ll...

MSDN has some huge announcements for Beta 1 as Kent , Sara , and Duncan (all burning the midnight oil to make this happen BTW) all point out. MSDN Product Feedback Center - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/ What is it? The...

In the TechEd Europe keynote today we officially announced the new Express products that are available to download right now: Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition ( download ) Visual C# 2005 Express Edition ( download ) Visual C++ 2005 Express...

The Seattle Times seems to think so. Eric Rudder is officially our first exec to blog (at least not anonymously) and S. Somasegar , our devtool Corporate VP is in on the action too . I'm trying to think of all the cool things I would want to know about...

** Update : Due to technical difficulties with the WMV file, the link for the download has been taken down. Duncan assures me it will be up soon. The Whiteboard with Anders cabana session from TechEd is now will soon be on MSDN TV for download . You...

Omar blogs about the Hotmail team putting in 80-hour weeks to pull this off and what it all means to you

Scott Nonnenberg , Brian Goldfarb , me, and lots of others are making the trek across the atlantic to TechEd Europe (in Amsterdam) next week. I haven't been to Amsterdam since I was a young pup (~13 years old) and I have a feeling it'll be a slightly...

Update Jan 7, 2005 : Generics will be CLS Compliant! I've recently received a couple of questions on how generics will be supported across languages so I thought I would point out Julie Lerman's blog entry on the subject of C#, VB, and J# support for...

I'm giving a talk for TechEd Europe at the end of next week and, while I have a good idea of what I think I need to talk about, I would love to get some advice on what you think would make the session really valuable. Session Title : Migrating MSJVM...

Meltdown is a Game Developer Conference in Seattle July 27-28th. If you're a game developer writing managed or unmanaged applications, this should be a great conference to attend. Speakers for the VS Track include: Tom Miller on managed Direct...

Robert Green blogs about the release of the VB.NET PowerPack. The PowerPack is a set of 7 cool new Windows Forms controls written in Visual Basic.NET. Don't let the “VB“ in the title or your own language bias fool you, you can use these controls...

Source: http://research.microsoft.com/Comega/ C-omega, is “a research language intended to foster new thoughts and ideas about programming languages, Cw (pronounced C-omega) is a combination of what used to be X#/Xen and Polyphonic C#. It's an...

Source: http://www.netcoole.com/delphi2cs.htm “Delphi2CS is an assistant tool that converts Delphi code to C#. Delphi2CS creates a new project, converts each file from the original project(.dpr) into the new project(.csproj), and generates a...

Source: http://www.go-mono.com/ “Less than a month after Beta 1 was released, Mono Beta 2 has been released. It includes a C# compiler, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure and two stacks of APIs: a Unix, Linux, GNOME, Mono...

Resharper announces June 20th release date, opens Early Access Program to all Visual Studio .NET 2003 Users Source: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ "Our early trial users have given us consistently great reports on ReSharper because it provides...

Channel9 had video of Anders Hejlsberg touring the Microsoft Museum. Very cool!!

Matt Hardman, the man, the myth, the legend, “Matty”, Hardman the Barbarian, has a blog. Subscribed!!! I've previously blogged about racing toilets, human foosball, and Matty kicking my butt in Dead or Alive. http://blogs.msdn.com/the_hardman...

With the launch of the Java Developer Resource Center , we've added a new way for developers who have never programmed using Visual Studio .NET before to try without installing the product. The simulations, created by Learnit Corp , are ActiveX controls...

Dan Mosely from the VSCore team wants to know how many of our developers are using dual processor development (not production) machines. Please respond in the comments: Q1: Are you using a dual processor developer machine today? (Yes/No) Q2: Do...

"Apple's SDK enables Windows developers to write code to control iTunes from other applications. These tools require iTunes 4.5 or later and support several languages, including C++, C# and JavaScript." News Source : http://www.macnewsworld.com/story...

Jeffrey McManus from eBay writes about some of the cool code samples written in C# to add items, and get search results directly from eBay. Download code sample eBay SDK for Windows Sign up for a (free) developer key