Ashutosh Nilkanth's .NET Blog

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XAML != XUL ?!?!

Business 2.0 (November 2003 Issue) features a nice article on The Best New Technologies of 2003. “Social Network Applications” is rated as the The Technology of the Year.

The Longhorn Developer Center @ MSDN is live as expected. And so is the Longhorn SDK.

While reading an article at CodeProject, I came across AmThreader - a code generator for “converting any singlethreaded .NET class to a multithreaded one”. However, what it actually does is create a class wrapper for any .NET class (not necessarily C#) and any call of wrapper class method will be translated to original class call but in a separate thread. For independent developers AmThreader is free.

Inno Setup 4.0.9 has been released. I use and recommend it for packaging & deployment of Windows desktop and client applications. Its scripting based compiler system provides a lot of flexibility. And, it is open source (Borland Delphi).

Gaurav Khanna has published some very cool .NET articles, applications, components, presentations, source code, tips and web services on his web site - WinToolZone.com (under the .NET menu option). He has also been working on extensions and enhancements to Rotor. Great content overall!

Where did some of the most heard and renowned computer software & hardware companies get their names from? Here's an interesting look at the origin of corporate brands from Adobe to 3M: http://scott.yang.id.au/archives/000177.php