Dazed & Confused

NHibernate 1.0 has been released.

Richard Grimes writes a farewell column in DDJ where he talks about the .NET platform here.
I don’t have much insight into the .NET platform, so it’s a pretty good read. Besides the weaknesses of the platform, the really interesting thing should be that MicroSoft might not believe in it themselfe. Maybe it takes time, but [...]

Seems like there is a quite extensive list of ORMs on .NET too. Check it out here.

NHibernate has been in the pipeline for a while now. An introduction can be found here.

Oh, and a early version of Python has been released for the CLR too. The Serverside .NET

Alright, I’m not going to claim to be an expert on .NET, but I was surprised to find they have ported C++ to run on the CLR. Maybe I’m just slow catching up. Introduction here.
My first thought was that C++ might get the garbage collection from the CLR, but it seems this is only a [...]

The best overview I have seen of what to expect of Longhorn. Read it here.

Alright, so it seems the refactoring support in Visual Studio is stepping up. Using Eclipse I mainly use the rename and extract method refactorings. Learing to use the rest of them would probably be a good idea.

Microsoft has a resource center for Java developers interested in .NET here.

A walkthrough with slides can be found here.
I have started reading .NET blogs lately and trying to gain some more insight. I’m going to have to get my hands dirty with VS some day to just see what it’s about.
I must say though. That most features in this walkthrough looks like it has [...]