10 December 2002

Flash Player and IE.NET I had a discussion with some of the folks I work with on what secrets IE.NET (assuming it will be called that) may hold. We all agreed that as a CLR container the ability to host C# or VB.NET client side would be super cool. This set me thinking about assemblies over COM in IE.NET and the what would happen to the Flash Player. I suspect the player would remain unmanaged code or partial umanaged code as even with "anti decompiler tools" its still possible (although very hard) to decompile an assembly (the meta map is messed up but the IL remains unchanged)  and unless Macromedia make the player opensource then they won't want people looking at the source. I think that it would be best to make the assembly partial unmanaged. So when do we get a .NET version Macromedia? :) 12:57:56 PM    comment []

Abstract IL This looks like a great way of creating apps for low level IL work, I'll be looking at this in more detail. 8:57:22 AM    comment []

Mono 0.17 released Kudos to all the folks on the Mono team on this release, the Mono Basic compiler (the Mono implementation of VB.NET) missed this release but will be in the next release. Things to note, the new speedy C# compiler, tons and tons of ADO.NET providers, ASP.NET work, Security work and the work on the XML namespaces. 8:56:17 AM    comment []