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Notes on DotNet

June 2007

Dr. Dobb's launched a Silverlight tutorial microsite that walks you through the creation of a breakout-style game called "Sparkleball." The tutorial requires Silverlight 1.1, Microsoft Expression Blend, and Microsoft Visual Studio Express or 2005. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be adding new demos and tutorials.

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Last week NETiKA Tech announced the release of GOA WinForms 2.0 a collection of over 40 WinXP-style .NET System.Windows.Forms controls that you can use in Silverlight 1.1 and Flash 8 and 9 apps. The free version of GOA WinForms includes treeview, combobox, XamlCanvas, draggable and dockable toolbars and more. The Professional version, now in alpha, also includes a DataGrid control and other more-advanced controls. GOA WinForms for Silverlight is designed for Visual Studio 2008 (support for VS 2005 in the Pro version only).

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In Scott Swigart's latest video tutorial,Build .NET Controls for VB6 Apps, he shows how the Interop Form 2.0 toolkit lets you build .NET controls that are usable from within VB6. Scott builds a simple ping control in .NET that asks for an IP address to ping and then displays the results in a text box. After compiling the the user control, Scott, builds VB 6 form that seemlessly hosts it.

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The .NET 2.0 Framework includes a standard collection library in namespace System.Collections.Generic (SCG). In their article, The C5 Generic Collection Library, Niels Kokholm and Peter Sestofttake a look at some of the missing features and limitations of the SCG. They designed the open-source C5 collection library to provide advanced functionality and support future forms of collection classes. The C5 collection library, works with Microsoft .NET 2.0 and Mono 1.2 and is available www.itu.dk/research/c5.

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If you're not in Orlando this week for TechEd, you can catch some of the keynotes and talks on-line at Virtual TechEd.
Mark Russinovich's talk on Windows Vista Kernel Changes is already available. Other videos available include the Monday keynote with Bob Muglia and an interview on the show floor with Microsoft’s Joe Marini about the new Visual Studio Shell. On DotnetJunkies, Paul Mooney has also posted some of Scott Guthrie's TechEd talks. Update: Paul's videos have been taken down, but you can read Scott's blog post about his Lap Around Silverlight talk at TechEd.

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