Daily Archives: March 16, 2005

ranting about a book

Just Rambling

Alex P doesn’t like this book. He is absolutely entitled to his opinion. What I don’t understand is his position that Francesco Balena has no credibility and that his position as an RD is of little value. Balena is a well known and respected author in the .NET world as well as pre-.NET Visual Basic. And RD’s aren’t selected based only on their good looks. 😉 Many of them also happen to be some of the top in their field technically, which is why Microsoft allows them to represent MS as such. I see nothing wrong with expressing one’s opinion, but I think the [unjustified and unqualified] personal attack is pretty crappy.

http://www.AcehAid.org

Obsolete [Beta] APIs in .NET 2.0

dotNET

If you have been and continue to be using pre-release versions of .NET 2.0, Kit George has pointed to this download which will list the APIs that are in existing bits that will not make it to the final RTM version. Definitely pay attention to this!

Clarification for those who may need it: These are NOT v1.x APIs, but APIs that are new to .NET 2.0 that have been in the current beta and other pre-release bits and will probably be in the Beta 2.0 as well. But they won’t make it to the final release.

http://www.AcehAid.org