I just finished a WebCast for Microsoft the topic was Best Practices for .NET Development (you can see it at Previously Recorded Webcasts) there were several interesting question.

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Q. How do you release as COM object from you .NET generated COM wrapper?
A. Use the Marshal.ReleaseComObject Method.

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Q. Is there any naming conventions or guidelines that Microsoft publish?
A. There are guidelines for component developers (Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers) but no coding conventions or guidelines that I am aware of.

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There were more questions (they took 45 minuets to answer) I have forgotten most and most were about where the could get the slides (which will be available on www.interknowlogy.com) so unless I remember another interesting that is all.

Last night at the San Diego .NET Developers Group I had said I would share a FTP component that I had modified from a sample I had seen on the web. Well the original sample I started from can be found up on www.csharphelp.com direct link. As the link show this guy Jaimon Mathew translated a class originally written in Java to C#, it was a direct simple translation and it hurt my teeth to use it so I made it much more .NET friendly (in my humble opinion). So if you want a zip file with my class in it click here. I hope you enjoy!

Well he has done it again, Marquis Howard (the guy I had mentioned) pointed me to this application PocketConsole v1.3 it looks cool I will install it soon and give a report back.

Ok so now we get in to what this bolg is all about.
A guy I work with sent me a link to a great website that called opennetcf which is for open-source projects targeting the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. This rocks there are quite a few project up there now and I am sure more to come.

Well I just got back from the San Diego .NET Developers Group meeting we unfortunately had to meet in a hotel down the street from from our normal meeting place the at Ericsson building.
All went well we had a vendor demo there application and I did a demo of the CommNet Slide deck application, I had a problem with the application but over it seammed to be well recived.