Get the latest on C# from C# Architect Anders Hejlsberg in this Channel9 video and see what Anders has planned for Tech Ed 2005.

Be sure to check out the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Webcast series. The Visual C# 2005 Express Edition webcast series will teach you the basics of the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition IDE, including a look at the new features in Windows Forms, designer improvements, new controls, and how to take advantage of the settings designers by designing the UI for a fully functioning RSS Reader. You’ll also learn about new language features and discover how new IDE features like generics, Microsoft IntelliSense code snippets and refactoring help simplify writing code as you code the business logic to pull XML RSS feeds and bind them to the user interface. In addition, you’ll learn how to create and design a SQL Server Express database using the Visual C# Express IDE and how the visual designers greatly simplify writing the code that binds data to Microsoft Windows controls. Other webcasts in the series include: Visual C# 2005: IDE Tips and Tricks, Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: RSS Screensaver Starter Kit, and Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Black Jack Card Game Starter Kit. Check http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/webcasts/ for Visual C# 2005 Express Edition webcast dates and times.

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 23, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the Understanding Interoperability chat. Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the Understanding Interoperability  presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework developer center on Friday, March 18, 2005.

The BCL Team has certainly been busy! Check out over 35 new blog posts from the BCL Team covering everything from cross version (v1.1 to v2.0) serialization to .NET Framework 2.0 (Whidbey) Beta 2 Obsolete APIs... 

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 16, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the Designing for a Managed Memory World chat. Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the Designing for a Managed Memory World presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework developer center on Friday, March 11, 2005.

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 9, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the CLR Performance Tips chat. Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the CLR Performance Tips presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework developer center on Friday, March 4, 2005.

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 2, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the Designing Progressive APIs chat. Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the Designing Progressive APIs presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework developer center on Friday February 25, 2005.

Please join us today (February 23, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: API Usability chat. Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the API Usability presentation that was published on the .NET Framework Developer Center on Monday, Feb. 21.

Please join us today (February 16, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: Designing Inheritance Hierarchies chat. Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the Designing Inheritance Hierarchies presentation that was published on the .NET Framework Developer Center on Monday, Feb. 14. More on the Designing Inheritance Hierarchies presentation from Brad Abrams…

Be sure to join us today (February 9, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: Member Types chat. Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the Member Types presentation that was published on the .NET Framework Developer Center on Monday, Feb. 7. More on the Member Types presentation from Brad Abrams…

Check out Mike Stall`s GUI Extension sample for the Managed Code Debugger (MDbg).

The sample demonstrates new capabilities, including:

• Modeless dialogs for the standard debugger windows: Callstack, Threadlist, module list, locals, quick watch
• A glyph bar on the left with icons for the current statement and breakpoints
• More UI elements for commands including Launch and Attach dialogs
• Highlight the current statement

More on Mike’s GUI Extension …

Be sure to join us today (February 2, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: Rich Type System chat. Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the Rich Type System presentation that was published on the .NET Framework Developer Center on Monday, Jan. 31.  Over to Lead CLR PM Brad Abrams for more on the Rich Type System presentation…

Be sure to join us today (January 26, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: Naming Conventions chat. Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the Naming Conventions presentation that was published on the .NET Framework Developer Center on Friday, Jan. 21.  Over to Lead CLR PM Brad Abrams for more on the Naming Conventions presentation…

Designing .NET Class Libraries 101

Today, we finally launched the Designing .NET Class Libraries training course!

This 14-part series of multimedia presentations and technical chats is based on an internal two-day technical education course presented by the CLR team.

The course covers design guidelines for developing class libraries and components that extend the .NET Framework and is intended to encourage consistency and predictability in public APIs built using the .NET Framework.

Each Friday, we will publish part of the course on the .NET Framework Developer Center and each Wednesday we will host a follow-up chat where you can ask questions about the previous Friday’s “lesson”. The schedule for the entire course (presentations and follow-up chats) is posted here on the .NET Framework Developer Center.

Setting the stage for the course is Brad Abrams…

Designing great frameworks training: Setting the stage

As promised today we started a regular series on designing great frameworks… This material is taken directly from some recent internal training I ran.  I hope you will take a look and let me know what you think and tell other folks that might be interested in “taking” this course with us. 

In this talk I ask about who the audience is in terms of job function (dev, test, PM).  If you plan to “take” this course of the next few weeks I’d love hear more about who you are and what you expect to get out this class. 

Enjoy the course and let us know what you think!

Scott Wiltamuth, Product Unit Manager (PUM) for C# and one of the original C# language designers has started blogging!

Here's a brief bio on Scott in his own words...