Jelle Druyts

Microsoft has been building some sample applications to showcase .NET through the Learn247.NET site. Former projects are Football247.NET and WeRock247.NET that focused particularly on Visual Studio 2003 and Smart Clients respectively. You can order the DVD's for these for free on the site, by the way, so if you're interested in some free goodies... These projects are accompanied by labs presentations, a community website, and a Microsoft tour through EMEA to promote all of this.

The latest project - WeFly247.NET - (which, as you could have guessed or known by now, I'm on; me being half of the development team) is going to focus on Visual Studio 2005 (a.k.a. "Whidbey"), using an imaginary airline to show a lot of enhancements in the upcoming version of .NET. Rather than sum it all up, I'll just refer to the introductory post to WeFly247.NET on the community forums. The intention is that we use that site to keep "the community" (a.k.a.: you!) up to speed on what we're doing (e.g. weekly builds, blogs, documentation, ...) and get them excited to ask questions and give feedback and build extensions, so if you're interested: be sure to keep an eye on this site!

I'll keep blogging about my experiences building the apps here, and on the community site as well once we get the blogs up and running over there.