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.