Many applications integrate .NET, even though they are not pure .NET. In fact, you may not even realize that such applications are .NET. For example, I work for a large healthcare solutions company - Eclipsys Corporation. We are a major player in the Healthcare IT arena, and may of the applications that we build have significant parts that are .NET. Sunrise XA 4.0, our latest release of our Clinical Solutions software, contains a great deal of .NET code. The product that I work on, Eclipsys Sunrise eLink, is a major competitor in the integrations solution market, and many hospitals rely on this product for reliable HL7 message proccessing in the Hospital Enterprise. Our next release will be comprised significantly of .NET code, with future releases approaching 100% managed code. These are only a few examples. Microsoft has many more on their website, if you want to spend the time looking.

My suggestion would be to find several high-profile open source applications and contribute. Projects like nUnit and nAnt are very visible amongst active c# developers, and having your name as a regular contributor is bound to be noticeable. This might also help when you need job references.

You might try contacting Tom Archer directly and ask him that same question - he's a CP member, and his profile is here: Tom Archer Jerry Dennany

My article on custom trace listeners has a decent write-up on this: TraceListeners and Reflection Towards the end there's a section on "StackFrame and StackTrace", with some example code. Jerry Dennany

IMHO, and experience, DemoShield isn't really all that. X| You are probably better off with Macromedia Flash or some such. -Jerry Dennany

se99ts wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on how i can impliment basic version management in any readily available system (CVS, RCS, etc.) im getting so fedup of trying to get this to work im even debating writing my own version management system but i know there must be one out there that will be fairly quick to get working? Why not either use: 1. CVS (free, open source solution) and the command line client, or 2. Perforce (http://www.perforce.com) with it's integrated tools or command line. It's free for up to 2 users, or totally free for open source solutions. You'll never get anywhere 'rolling your own' solution. Jerry Dennany

Arun Bhalla wrote: Is .NET Framework 1.1 Release also available? Not yet - I read that the Framework 1.1 is supposed to be downloadable in "Mid-April". Jerry

The Windows 2003 Server Release version is available for download on MSDN subscriber downloads, if anyone is interested... Jerry Dennany

Oops! In my previous posts, note that I was speaking of SQL Server 2000, not SQL Server 7, so you may well have to apply MDAC 2.7 (I'm not that familiar with SQL 7, as it's been awhile). You might want to search your hard drive for the file "sqlsp.log". This might help you get to the problem. Good luck! Jerry

Something similar is in the works, and will be a killer solution when it is finished. It's called subversion, and uses WebDAV. It's meant to be a CVS replacement. It's currently in Alpha, and I'm really looking forward to when they finally release it. Check out http://subversion.tigris.org --Jerry

Well, a few of those items are redundant: SQL Server 2000 SP3 contains MDAC 2.7, so if you apply SQL Server 2000 SP 3, you shouldn't need to install MDAC. MSDE is a subset of SQL Server, so you shouldn't need to install that (and shouldn't really, unless you know what you are doing. Improperly installing MSDE after installing SQL Server may break SQL Server (or at least the SQL Server tools). Other than that, have fun! Jerry Dennany

Yup, check out Microsoft's DLL Help Database". (If the link doesn't work, do a search for "DLL Help Database" on http://msdn.microsoft.com ) You can enter in a DLL name, and it will tell you every product and OS that it is included in. You should also use Windows Installer and merge modules to deploy MFC runtimes, instead of just doing a file copy. Hope this helps! Jerry Dennany