Random .NET Ramblings

Just announced Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework I had not know we were going to CTP with this but it's a huge features that will solve a lot of problems!

Wow SliverLight 2.0 and now this... too much good stuff not enough time in the day!

You should read it... it's all good!

.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7) 

For a lot of ASP.NET developers this may not seam like a big deal but for cgi users out there this is huge! With FastCGI the windows platform is now a first class citizen for cgi applications. Now PHP developers have a wider choice of platforms. And from a ASP.NET developers perspective now that have away to add functionally or migrate functionally to a more structured environment.

Details on the www.iis.net web site download from there as well.

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From these examples you can find out just how flexible & extendable Visual Studio is. 

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