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The Future of .NET Reflector

 FYI, from

Lutz Roeder

"After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new opportunities.

I have reached an agreement to have Red Gate Software continue the development of .NET Reflector. Red Gate has a lot of experience creating development tools for both .NET and SQL Server. They have the resources necessary to work on new features, and Reflector fits nicely with other .NET tools the company offers.

Red Gate will continue to provide the free community version and is looking for your feedback and ideas for future versions.

For news and updates on Reflector, sign up for the .NET Developer’s Newsletter from Red Gate. To find out more about the agreement, see the interview on Simple Talk."

DigiGirlz

 DigiGirlz is coming to a town near you

A new cool search engine

 It's Cuil

VS 2008 SP1 is out

 Thanks Greg:

http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/08/11/net-framework-3-5sp1-and-visual-studio-2008-sp1-released.aspx

Good read on Agile

 Alok wrote a good blog on the swing to Agile

But does it scale?

It's what all the smart people are asking

Win32 Error Codes 2.2 Win32 Error Codes

 I found this link interesting this morning.  Looks like a good resource for when you see those strange Win 32 errors.

Code Monkey

Code Monkey like tab and mountain dew 

Mike has a new home

 Mike Gunderloy has a new home now

VB6 to .NET

Beth Massi did a nice webcast on migrating from VB6 to .NET.  Beth does a nice job letting us VBers know about the new thinks coming and how to use them.  Keep an eye on her blog.

To WPF or not

 WPF is one of those latest and greatest things I need to dig into...yeah, I know, we all have the same 24 hours in a day.

Here is a nice post on chosing between WPF or WinForms.  Wow, it feels like yesterday that we just started using WinForms and now we are saying "consider something else".  Time files in this industry.  

.NET 2.0 SP1 shipped

In case you missed it. .NET 2.0 SP1 shipped recently.  This one caused some issues for us, which took us a day or two to resolve.  Hopefully there are some things in there that help us.

We are on VS 2008

 We made the conversion to VS 2008 in our current Release code base today.  I'll keep you posted on how it goes. We are hoping to pick up some speed. 

You Ain't Gonna Need It

 Here is an interesting post on over engineering.