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Alex posts a inquiry regarding Eclipse (a Java IDE).  I used Eclipse at my previous company where I did Java work, not because it was the best (although it might be) but because it was free.  Although there is limited support for C# in eclipse, I do not (and probably never will) use it for any .NET development.  The primary reason is that it is slow.  Now, it is faster than other IDE's written in Java but that is like saying that one turtle is faster than another.  They are both turtles and they will always be slow.  If I want to do some quick and dirty work in Java now, I use JCreator Lite (the free version)  Although the Pro version is very nice and only $69, I just don't do enough Java any more to justify it.  They are NOT written in Java (i.e. not slow).

DevX is putting on some online .NET training.  I don't know what the first two weeks were but this week is C# and next week is ASP.NET.

Cool!  This would be great when using my notebook computer and horizontal scrolling is a much need thing!

I finally got around to downloading and trying out NVelocity.  I was a big user of the Java version, Velocity, for building code generators back in Java land.  Since a .NET project I am working on could use some code generation, I checked it out.  It's great!  I was able to use my Java Velocity templates with almost zero code changes!  (of course, there is no equivalent of EJB's in .NET so I do have some work to do!)

I am going to be switching from my current (non-.net) hosting company and I am looking for suggestions from satisfied customers.
I am looking for a host that supports NET 1.1 and is <$20 / month.

Well, I installed CVSNT yesterday...  (sorry Mark!)  I was using Subversion for the last month or so but I have had too many problems with errors when I would go to check code in.  I did a Google search and found many others that have had the same problems but being a non-*nix user, we don't get too much help or sympathy.  The proverbial straw was that I had major problem on one of my drives and I thought "hmm.  this is a perfect time to get my latest source code out of subversion"  Well, it got some of the code but not all of it.  Hopefully, I have better luck with CVSNT.

Had to add my bit of flair... Can't wait!

I saw this posted on ieXBeta and I want in!  I will have to see if any of my connections can get me hooked up into the official alpha program.  Maybe I should join Tribe.net as mentioned by Scoble.  I'm sure someone knows how to get into the alpha/beta program for the cool next version of Visual Studio.NET. 

 Russell Pooley has done some research into VB.NET to C# tools  (via Matthew Reynolds).  I always seem to find a lot of tools for converting from C# to VB.NET but seldom the reverse.  These tools are great for me because being a former Java guy, I find C# very easy to pick up and understand, but I have never written any code in VB.NET.   Now I can take code snippets I see in VB.NET and convert them (plus a little tweaking usually) and then I have it in C#!  (I know, it is all .NET, but C# is where I am most comfortable!)

I am looking into tools for doing .NET (specifically C#) refactoring within VS.NET.   I used the Eclipse product for my previous Java development and although it supports C#, it really doesn't.