.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

bart — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:30:00 GMT

That's right - we've published the .NET Framework Library Source Code to the public. Scott Guthrie has the full details. Getting the sources out for the WPF team has been one of my first jobs on the team, which was an interesting experience crawling through the source tree, finding out about build system stuff, and so much more. In technical terms, you now have access to the PDB files over HTTP, as outlined by Shawn Burke over here.

Anyway, enjoy debugging through the BCL sources!

Acropolis CTP 1 available

bart — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:20:10 GMT

A few weeks ago I mentioned Acropolis on my blog as one of the technologies that were about to be announced at TechEd US. Today the first CTP of the technology has been released on http://windowsclient.net/Acropolis/. So what's it all about?

Componentized application architecture based on "parts", allowing for composition of apps based on connectable building blocks
Nice split between presentation logic and underlying business logic à la MVC
Theme support for applications allowing for much richer user experiences, even in a user-based manner
Integration of Acropolis-based applications with Office and other hosts
Easy deployment, management and updating of/for applications

If you have Orcas Beta 1 on your machine already, you can take a jumpstart with Acropolis right now. Download it over here and make sure to grab the help files too. Enjoy!

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.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Acropolis CTP 1 available