Blogging Roller

I spent Saturday rewriting the second half of my search/monitoring chapter and then Sunday and Monday I spent updating my C# examples. I also built, ran and tested all of the example code for the book and committed a number of fixes to the Blogapps CVS. And finally, I sent the whole Part II bundle back to Manning for typesetting and proofreading. The end is near!

I had been using Visual Studio C# 2003 but since that's almost three years old now, I moved everything over to Visual Studio 2005 and .Net 2.0. Moving to .Net 2.0 was pretty easy. I downloaded Visual Studio C# 2005 Express Edition and that worked fine for almost all of my examples, but not for my one ASP.NET example. I had to download Visual Web Designer 2005 Express Edition to get that working. Both of those IDEs are free at least for the next year. You can get them here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express. Nobody pays for IDEs anymore, not even Micro$ofties.