The dot before the Net : .Net 3.0

Alice in Wonderland

Sanket Bakshi — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:37:00 GMT

I just love what technology has done to our lives. I had never in my life thought that I would be able to read "Alice in Wonderland" the original version of Lewis Carol in his own writing.

Microsoft has just launched a version of the Turn the Pages section of the British Library for Windows Vista. It runs on the latest .Net 3.0 framework and does some really cool stuff. Take a look at it here.

I bet thats just the starting. We need to see for ourselves - how deep the rabbit hole goes :)

--Sanket

Wanna learn .Net? Enroll today in the .Net University

Sanket Bakshi — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:09:11 GMT

Yes, its there now. Learning .Net just as a curriculum. The .Net Univerisity provides online courses, labs to try some hands on & presentations.

Feel free to download and study at your own pace. Or you can even become a student by enrolling for trainings. Each lecture is 75 mins and each lab is 30 mins. So it is quite possible to complete all the courses in a day. For course not very in-depth content, but gives a real good overview of the .Net 3.0 technology stack -

- Windows Presentation Foundation

- Windows Communication Foundation

- Windows Workflow

- Windows CardSpace

The content is of course available online, but you can also schedule an instructor based training and become an University aluminus!

Enjoy it on the campus now!

Developer Community site for .Net 3.0

Sanket Bakshi — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:11:00 GMT

Just on the heels of renaming Winfx to .Net 3.0, a new developer community site has been created for the technology.

Find it at - http://www.netfx3.com/default.aspx

Going forward, this is going to be a key channel to build the excitement around the .Net 3.0.
The site will contain downloads, code snippets, docs and lot more stuff to get you started and keep you hooked onto the thing.

--Sanket Bakshi

Winfx now becomes .Net 3.0

Sanket Bakshi — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:06:00 GMT

The most talked about platform - the Winfx that encompassed the major breakthroughs including the Communication Foundation, Presentation Foundation and the Workflow Foundation has now been renamed to .Net 3.0.

Much unlike the Vista story, this remains a change ONLY in the name. So Winfx buddies can obviously be relaxed as it does not change the features as well as the product ship date.

Well, then why the change? Basically to answer the much asked question - "Winfx is cool, but what about .Net?". Interestingly, the CLR will be the same as that of the .Net 2.0.

The news broke out with Somasager disclosing it on his blog -
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/06/09/624300.aspx

--Sanket