Maybe OT: Microsoft suggesting Open Source - Go figure

From: Daniel Becroft (djcbecroft_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: 24 Aug 2004 00:59:13 -0700

Hey all,

Just trying to find some ADO.NET tutorials on MSDN, and I came across this:

"Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/04/07/musthavetools/default.aspx

Here are a few of the 'best':

"NUnit - NUnit is an open source unit testing framework built for the .NET Framework."
[Ed: xUnit anyone?]

"With NDoc you are technically still documenting your code, but you are documenting as you write it
(in the XML comments), which is much easier to swallow."
[Ed: JavaDoc anyone?]

"NAnt is a .NET-based build tool that, unlike the current version of Visual Studio .NET, makes it
easy to create a build process for your project."
[Ed: Apache Ant anyone?]

It seems that Microsoft is starting to advertise the availability of open source, .NET utilities
for use by developers. These tools, however, have been available for Java for a while.

On a side note, however, one statement did seem rather odd:

"The .NET Framework introduced the world to the concept of reflection which can be used to examine
any .NET-based code, whether it is a single class or an entire assembly."

Now, didn't Java (and its reflection capabilities) introduce the world to the concept of reflection
before .NET? 

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Daniel Becroft
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