Several weeks back James Vastbinder was able to coax Jack Gudenkauf into doing an interview on .NET 3.5 targeted at ISVs.  Jack is an Architect on the Base Class Library team and tasked to work with Microsoft’s ISV Partners. 

In this interview:

• Jack talks about the BCL team and how they work within the larger Server and Tools business unit.
• An inside view of the new Add-In Model in 3.5, (Its Jack's baby and he's rightly proud).
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Channel9 started as Community Server and FlexWiki but has grown to a lot more. When we started working on10, the goal was to create a new site as well as a stable, extendable code base that we could grow all our communities on. That project is called EvNet and this is the dev team behind it. We dive in to how this all works as well so take a look.
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As a compact, stack-based programming language, Forth was popular in the 1980s as a lower-level alternative to BASIC for microcomputers and is still used in many commercial environments. When Valer Bocan discovered .NET in 2001, he decided to try writing his first compiler, and Forth.NET was the result.   Dr. Sneath interviews him to find out a little more about how a single Romanian developer became one of the first people to extend .NET to new programming languages. Apologies that the…[more ]