Friday, July 26, 2002

Just wanted to give a title on this and amplify a little bit. I have been working with .NET since the COM+ 3.0/NGWS (NDA) days and was a Microsoft.NET Early Adopter Partner (EAP). Because of this I have had the opportunity to build two real production products using .NET which is a somewhat unique position. I consider myself expert in many areas of .NET and particuarly Interop, VSIP and VS.NET. I have am also the co-author of a book As I explained earlier: I am available after July 30th. I have come in on a contract basis for the last 7 months and helped Groove produce some great things. We have had a great relationship and will continue to have one in the future (with Groove work). The current contract will complete on July 30th and I am available. I am interested in continuing to do .NET and Web Services work. If you are interested, you can contact me at ManagedCode@attbi.com. Update: Some kind words of reference from Groovers Paresh Suthar,  John Burkhardt and Matt Pope.   8:55:07 AM

We were quite fortunate to have the one and only Jeff Richter 2 nights ago give his frank appraisal of .NET Threading. Actually, he was quite frank about a number of areas of .NET that could be quite a bit better (and to be avoided for now). In a discussion with me later, he completly agreed with me that COM Interop is flawed and "broken" and that Microsoft should have implemented IDisposable in the RCWs. The excuse of preserving COM Versioning is farcical (can't find the list post right now) as we all know that there is no real COM Versioning other than to create IFoo2 instead of IFoo. 8:37:17 AM

Eric Gunnerson continues his popular MSDN C# series with some Interop disucssions in Using Existing Code in C#. Its a fairly short article that glosses over most of the issues and doesn't really get into the meat. 8:11:15 AM

Kate Gregory continues her Using Visual C++.NET series with Creating a Web Service in Managed C++. 8:05:38 AM

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