John Kennedy, the man behind the local docs that come with C# Express has a couple of blog entries on C# Express you should definitely check out: C# Express: Getting Started C# Express: My Favorite IDE Tricks C# Express: Refactorwhating? He also has some fun samples in the way for MSDN :)

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. As Luke points out, It's only beta 1 so now is your time to get in all...

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 good coverage of Visual Web Developer Express The Channel9 Forums have lots of good info on the Express...

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) .NET Framework 2.0 SDK Beta 1 x86 .NET Framework 2.0 SDK Beta 1 x64 .NET Framework 2.0...

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 hosting the Summer of Express Contest! All you need to do is write code and you could...

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 find the RSS Screen saver a great way to start programming. In a nutshell, the RSS Screen...

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 MSDN Product Feedback Center is the way that you can file bugs and provide product suggestions for Visual...

  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 Edition (download) Visual J# 2005 Express Edition (download) Visual Web Developer 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 Bill: Does he believe in K&R, Allman style or something totally different?...

The Whiteboard with Anders cabana session from TechEd is now on MSDN TV for download. You'll get to hear Anders take live questions from the audience and whiteboard the explanation.  Thanks to Erica and Duncan for making this happen

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 different experience :)  I'll be blogging all the gory details of course,...

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 generics.  C++ will have both templates that are available today and generics.  You can find out more information about the differences...

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 and Other Java-Based Applications to the .NET Framework Abstract: Attend this session...

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 X Andy Pennell on debugging Peter Hallam on C# Brandon Bray on C++...