Jon Galloway

Heh, got a good laugh out of your title, "Free Whidbey!"...I could picture a vs.net2005 product box jumping over some rocks into the ocean...

I'll be less of blog coward and publicly join the "Free Whidbey" movement as well as "Change that stupid name Whidbey to something cool". MS once again is proving with it's actions it has not left the dark past of keeping us captive with interLOCKING products.

Funny, when I read the title, I thought it was "free as in beer".
I thought that maybe there was a community developing that would build the features MS promised (and demonstrated with the PDC build) using the current 1.1 framework. That got me excited. We know that a lot of the new features of ASP.NET coming in Whidbey COULD be implemented in 1.1 (master pages, personalization, etc). And maybe someone would build an editor with all the nice new features. We wouldn't be able to get stuff like generics, but we COULD get a lot of other functionality.
But that's not what you are talking about, so I'll wake up from my dream now.

Josh -
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing this morning. There's nothing magical about ASP.NET - it's an ISAPI filter that handles requests for certain file types (aspx, config, etc.). I'm not saying it's not an amazing system, but it's just software that runs on the CLR. Anyone could (theoretically) make aspnet_isapi_monkey.dll and take a crack at doing everything aspnet_isapi.dll does. As I understand it, Mono's attempting this for Linux.
Interesting, but I sure don't have the time or smarts to pull this off. Let me know when you get it working! ;-)
- Jon

Looking for items no longer want and they are giving them away........free.