.NET

Everyone's favourite .NET development tool has a new home with Red Gate Software. After eight years of working on .NET Reflector, Lutz Roeder, the original creator of the program, has handed it off to Red Gate in order to move on with his career and explore new opportunities.

Despite not being able to get any work done on Alarm Clock at the given time, I have been continuing to think about what work remains incomplete, and how best to accomplish it. Here's two of those insights...

Microsoft's Jim Hugunin reports from MIX07 that the .NET Framework is gaining new support for dynamic (read: scripting) languages such as Python or Ruby. The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) is an extension to the CLR that adds the features important to such scripting languages, such as dynamic typing.

I mentioned a while ago about XNA updates being mentioned on the XNA Team Blog. I'm still curious to know, however, if support will ever be added for Game Explorer without the use of my hack.