Currently listening to...

• Finding Passion for Software *or* The Return of the "Franklinator"

2 new episodes of Mondays....

• The Man-Boy Show
• The He Hole Show

Books I currently flip through #5

• A colleague recently recommended Windows via C/C++ (Jeffrey Richter)
• Derivatives demystified

Things missing from C++

I'm using unmanaged C++ for a new project at work. For a while we hesitated between C++ and C# and eventually went for unmanaged C++ because of legacy libraries. I miss some of the C# features such as:

• No cpp/h separation
• Automatic creation of properties from a member field with snippets
• Automatic implementation of interface methods in concrete classes.
• The .NET collections (I am currently using the STL collections, they're a real pain in the bum)
• Interfaces: although you can simulate interfaces in C++ by creating a class only just virtual pure methods and no field, there is still a risk it turns into a base class if someone adds some code to a method...

.NET Framework 3.5

The .NET Framework 3.5 complete install package: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/f/60fc5854-3cb8-4892-b6db-bd4f42510f28/dotnetfx35.exe The install DVD download for Visual C# Express 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ at the bottom of the page