James Vastbinder wonders if open source is the anathema for .NET. In fact I think that .NET has only encouraged open source, and is now available to a wider userbase because of Mono. SharpDevelop was one of the first open source tools I used and was more than just impressed. [Continue]
I was looking for tools for some .Net work, when I came across two fantastic tools - .Net Reflector and Hawkeye. Both of them together can help reverse engineer a lot of .Net code. I think one of the advantages of a virtual machine and intermediate level code, CLR in this case, is that its specifications can be used to explore the JVM capabilities at runtime irrespective of the programming language used. [Continue]
Microsoft Vista, the new blue-eyed baby of Microsoft, does not support the primary development suite - Visual Studio, even the latest version. Latest versions of two flagship products, both by the same vendor, don’t work with each other. Does it sound stupid? [Continue]