It seems I was a bit forgetful on Friday and forgot to post my roundup. Here is what I liked last week.

The future of .Net, Visual Studio, and more
As the information has been quite minimal, I decided to find out what kind of job postings Microsoft has listed at the moment as they reveal something of what they are planning at the Redmond. As it turns out, there are lot’s of interesting things coming in the future versions of .NET Framework, Visual Studio, SQL Server and SharePoint.

It should be noted that the information in this post is based mostly on combination of several job listings and speculations and it shouldn’t be taken as a definite road map or truth. Projects can be combined, canceled and delayed. I’ll link to the original job posting sources, but I’m not sure how long the links will work.

What is the future of C# anyways?
It was often asked during some of my presentations on F# and Functional C# about the future direction of C# and where I think it’s going. Last night I was pinged about this with my F# talk at the Philly ALT.NET meeting. The question was asked, why bother learning F#, when eventually I’ll get these things for free once they steal it and bring it to C#. Being the language geek that I am, I’m pretty interested in this question as well. Right now, the language itself keeps evolving at a rather quick pace as compared to C++ and Java. And we have many developers that are struggling to keep up with the evolution of the language to a more functional style with LINQ, lambda expressions, lazy evaluation, etc. There are plenty of places to go with the language and a few questions to ask along the way.

Something is wrong on the Internet
That comic sums up the internet in one sentence: the scrum of jostling opinions on the web and the optimism that truth can still win out. I was reminded of that comic when someone asked me about a particular way that someone recently tried to get links. Jonathan Crossfield wrote up a good background summary of the situation.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release
This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release. Today’s build includes some additional features not in last month’s drop, some nice enhancements/refinements, as well as Visual Studio tool integration and documentation.