Community Convergence XXXIX
Welcome to the XXXIX issue of Community Convergence. The big news this week is that Microsoft has begun releasing source code for the .NET Framework libraries. Shawn Burke explains how to configure Visual Studio so that you can step into the source. The first step is download the hot-fix with the romantic title KB944899. Scott Guthrie informs us that source is available for the following code libraries:
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
- Windows Forms
- The .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.Collections, System.Drawing, System.IO, System.NET, and more.)
- ASP.NET
- ADO.NET and XML
In other news, veterans of the C# world might be interested to hear that Dan Fernandez is moving to the Channel 9 team.
From the C# Team
Eric Lippert
- Recent Book News, Part One
- Recent Book News, Part Two
- Immutability in C# Part Eight: Even More On Binary Trees
Matt Warren
Luca Bolognese
Ed Mauer
Kirill Osenkov
Charlie Calvert
From the C# Community
Dino Esposito
Wes Dyer
Sara Ford
Rico Mariani
Tony Patton
Mitsu
Scott Guthrie
Justin James
Upcoming Events and Pod/Webcasts
- The C# 3.0 Jam
- WEBCAST: What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5
Of Interest
Ted Neward
James Carr