Mono 2.0 is out! – Miguel de Icaza announces the release of Mono 2.0 – the list of what is included in this release is very impressive – its great that we can write .NET code and have it run on platforms other than Windows.
.NET Micro Framework V3.0 RC0 Now Available! – Steve Maillet, program manager for the .NET Micro Framework announces that the first release candidate of Version 3 of the framework is now available on Connect.
Formatting strings – Jon Skeet posts on the subject of Format Strings, and looks at how their performance suffers compared to simple concatenation, and muses over the reasons why this might be.
The big news from MS BI Conference are out – Mosha Pasumansky reports on some of the big news announcements about SQL Server coming from the Microsoft Business Information conference.
ASP.NET MVC with NHaml – F# Edition – Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at what you need to do to get ASP.NET MVC working with F# and the NHaml view engine – it looks like it takes a bit of setting up for the project, but once that is done it seems to work well.
Long strings in Visual Basic 2008 – Eric Nelson posts a neat trick for Visual Basic programmers who need long multiline strings – using the XML literals to make the code clearer – I wonder what if any performance penalty this incurs.
Preventing third-party derivation, part two – Eric Lippert continues his series on preventing developers taking derivations of your classes with a look at some metadata based ways of achieving this using security attributes.
Sammy The Snake: An XNA game for the Zune – Nick Gravelyn writes at length about the construction of a game for the Zune using XNA Game Studio 3.0. This is a code along article (and is quite long), but looks like a great intro if you are wanting to have a go at game development.
.NET 1.1 and VS2003 Mainstream Support Ends on Oct 14, 2008 – David Jung posts about the end of mainstream support for Visual Studio 2003 / .NET 1.1 – The extended support phase runs for another 5 years, so if you are still developing on .NET 1.1 you are not completely without support.
jBlogMvc : part 2 Editing, Deleting, Paging Posts and Rss feeds – Amr Elsehemy continues his series on building a Blogging engine on ASP.NET MVC and JQuery – this part looks at dealing with posts and the construction of RSS feeds from first principles. As usual there is a code drop included for this post.
