There looks like there is a freeware AJAX library for .NET 1.1. I know this stuff will be in ASP.NET 2.0, but that’s not out yet and this one is.

I think I’m going to play with this one a bit….

How to handle unhandled exceptions in Windows Forms

Here’s some sample code for catching unhandles exceptions in multi-thread Windows Forms application. Pretty cool.

Eric Gunnerson’s C# Compendium : Visual Studio Debugging Slowness – Solved

It looks like if you have an invalid directory in the “debug source files” list, the VS.NET debugger may get very sleepy. The work around is to make sure that the list does not have any invalid directories.

I saw a interesting post by David Kean about the performance of the nullable types in .NET 2.0. The new int? type is about 50% slower than int and the bool? is about 15% than bool. The post is worth reading if only for the great example code for using interfaces.

I’m not concerned over the speed issue. You don’t need nullable types everyday and when you do want one, it will be nice to have support for them at the framework. Hopefully the performance issue will be resolved before .NET 2.0 gets out of beta.

I just saw that Xavier Pacheco will not be writing a Delphi 2005 Developer’s Guide. His reasons were logical:

First, I simply do not have the time to invest in writing about a product I do not use. While Delphi 7 is my tool of choice for writing Win32 applications, I use VS.NET and C# for developing .NET applications. Secondly, the current book’s sales have been very low. No publisher would take on this project as it would be a loss.

His Developer’s Guides for previous versions of Delphi are good books to have and I wonder is this part of trend. Borland has always been a niche player, but is their niche getting smaller?

I have Delphi 2005, and while I broke the shrink wrap to see what was inside, I have yet to install it. I use Delphi 5 & Delphi 7 for Win32 apps and they are my tools of choice for Win32. I’m also doing .NET programming and I’m using C# with VS.NET. I’ve been using Delphi since Delphi 2, but I can’t see any reason to use Delphi 2005 over VS.NET for .NET projects.