As services offered by and around .NET Framework are more and more pervasive, this page will summarize the main resources that could be interesting to a .NET developer :
- ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit allows to use or create AJAX based controls.
- Microsoft Reference Source Code Center extends a debug portion to the source code of some .NET Framework portions.
- Silverlight 2 is a plug in allowing to host a small .NET runtime inside a web page.
- Silverlight Toolkit provides additional controls and components outside of the usual Silverlight release cycle.
- Vista Bridge Sample Library gives access to some of Windows Vista features.
- Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework gives access to some of Windows 7 features.
- XNA Game Studio is a C# and DirectX based IDE, that allows to create video games for Xbox 360, Windows and Zune.
It's worth to note the availability of some information about Singularity and some rumors about Midori that could anticipate managed code handling as a "fist class citizen" inside new Microsoft operating systems...
