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 in any .NET language.  You can download the...

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 interesting combination of new ideas, and is most certainly worth a look.” As I've said...

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 report detailing what was done. After your project is converted, Delphi2CS inserts comments...

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 stack for APIs that takes the most advantage of your Unix server and desktop and a set of APIs...

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 many of the same types of productivity enhancements in C# that IntelliJ IDEA provides in Java,"...

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 that provide a guided tour (with audio) through creating your...

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 you plan on using a dual processor developer machine in the next 0-2 years? (Yes/No)  

"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/34235.html SDK Link: http://developer.apple.com/SDK/#iTunesCOM Sweet!  

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  

Outlook is my one salvation from sheer chaos.  As I've complained before several times before (here, and here), I'm pretty busy.  Outlook is the shining light that keeps me sane.  Having taken an internal course on time management a couple of years ago, Managing Action Using Outlook, I realized I wasn't the only one overwhelmed...

Andrew Troelsen wrote a great article on creating an Outlook add-in using C#.  Having had to struggle to create my first C# Outlook add-in, I realized how difficult it was to create and that there was little information on MSDN.  You should definitely check it out, the article includes a  Console version of Pine,...

If you're a Java developer who needs to interoperate with, learn about, or migrate to the .NET Framework, MSDN can be a pretty daunting place for information and a lot of the content seems focused on COM to .NET or VB6 to .NET.  Well Brian Keller and I (among others) just launched the Java Developer Resource Center at:...

[Okay, I'm way, way behind and only starting to slowly unbury] Remember when I said in this post: “I think you can only really start to understand the scope of everything that Microsoft will be offering in Visual Studio 2005 by Beta 1.  Until then, your basically looking at a car in an assembly line saying how you need the...