As you may or may not know, the method AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath has been marked as obsolete in the 2.0 framework.  The message is this: "AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath has been deprecated. Please investigate the use of AppDomainSetup.PrivateBinPath instead.".  This is the method used my most applications the use a module or plugin style framework to load their assemblies.  The problem now is that it’s replacement of sorts is to use AppDomainSetup.  AppDomainSetup can only be used when setting up an AppDomain and before any assemblies are loaded.  Thus if you need to dynamically load assemblies from an a directory other then the one containing the executable, you are in trouble.

Under previous builds of .NET 2.0 there was an interface System.ComponentModel.IPropertyChange

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/archive/2005/04/20/410129.aspx

When using a dictionary you can do the following:

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000490039649/

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/betaexperience/

http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html

Since I have been doing a lot with VS.NET 2005 (2006?), I hope to publish some of the stuff I have been working on soon. I think I will probably wait until after Beta 2 comes out (April 15th?) to make sure that everything works with that build.

Well, I went to my first Atlanta C# User Group meeting last night.  It was very interesting.  Keith Rome did a presentation on Asynchronous Programming.  You can download the presentation here. I thought it was a very good presentation that covered a lot of area in the short amount of time he was given.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/

Following the many discussions of log4net vs Enterprise Library Logging has convinced me to give log4net another chance.  Log4Net 1.2.9 Beta has just been released after 20 months or so since a release.
You can download it here at Log4Net’s download page

Has anyone found any documentation showing how the MSBuild framework has changed from Beta 1 to Beta 2 (or the Feb CTP) ?

Has anyone done a thorough comparison between log4net and Enterprise Library Logging block? 

I am messing around with embedding Flash (.swf) files inside my c# applications and I am really looking for a way to find out if the ActiveX control is already installed.   I would like to build a bootstrap application that can detect the existence of the .NET Framework (easy enough) and the existence of an installed Flash ActiveX control.

Announcing the 2005 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

Here is an interesting article about throwing exceptions...
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