Gone are the days of dozens of test event handlers and breakpoints just to find out which events are fired in what order and under which circumstances! EventSpy catches all events of any Windows Forms Control or other event-raising object and writes event info, arguments and the call stack to the VS.NET IDE Debug Output window or to a file.EventSpy uses Reflection and dynamically built assemblies to accomplish this task.

Download EventSpy from gotdotnet.com

[ Via Paul Laudeman ]

Brandon Paddock wrote interesting article about executing MSN Desktop Search from
your application.

The source looks like a hack ,but works excellent.

The article enumerates the differences between C# .Net 2003 (C#) and Visual Basic .Net 2003 (VB.Net) and the potential ramifications of these differences with regard to cross-language platform support.

MSDN Forums Beta allows customers to search a growing archive of technical questions and answers.

Here are the C#-specific groups:

• Visual C# IDE  Questions and discussions on the C# IDE (including IntelliSense, refactoring, code snippets, colorization, brace matching, smart tags, auto-generated code, etc.)
• Visual C# Language  Issues regarding the C# language and compiler ( including things like generics, anonymous methods, etc. )
• Visual C# General  General open C# issues that don’t t fall into any other C# forum category.
• Visual Studio Debugger  Questions and discussions about debugging applications with the Visual Studio debugger.

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn

[ Via Josh Ledgard ]

C# beat out Java as the preferred programming language in a recent developer survey conducted by Computerworld.

The highest number of respondents selected .Net as their organization’s preferred framework/API, followed by Unix/Linux and Microsoft Win32/COM/DCOM.

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