I completely agree with you on this one. I'll go one farther. I'm tired of reading about it on the web, especially MSDN. Apparently there is nothing worth writing about with .NET 1.1.
Might as well quit programming till .NET 2.0, VS 2005 and Longhorn come out.
Hear hear. When I do find articles in MSDN that A) I can understand and B) I can apply to my current or near future endeavors, they are usually excellent. It's too bad they are in the relative minority to the marketing articles.
Roy,
I kind of, but kind of don't agree (especially as one of the authors of the articles in the June issue :-). However, when you read my controls article you'll see that we implemented one of the ASP.NET 2.0 controls in ASP.NET 1.1. So hopefully we provided value for the future and today.
Dave: I'm not saying there arn't any helpful articles in it. Just that they should not be the minority, but the majority. The future should be set a side as a smaller section. How many articles in these two issues do you think relate to today's world? I'd say about half in the first one and even less in the second one. That's not what I want to read when I purchace MSDN magazine.
(which I don't - I read it online. But my company does)
I agree. MSDN Mag needs to come back to mother earth. I wouldn't mind seeing one or two articles, but hey - an entire magazine??
Roy - Yeah, I see your point and most times I think the same way. There's just some obvious marketing going on to build up excitement for the new technologies.
Makes me wonder what those guys will write about when VS2005 and Longhorn will be well in the market. Will they stop writing about them? Maybe just then we will see again articles about v1.1...
The thing that gets me is that a lot of the "experts" are actually clueless about other things going on in the larger community. For instance, there's no mention of MasterPages working for ASP.NET v1.*, and the same can be said about some of the other v2.0 things that have already been implemented now for v1.*.
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. I read for solutions now! I appreciate some of the future content but focus needs to be on things that are relevant to getting my job done today for me to stay tuned.