.NET 1.1, Win2003, PC hardware woes
I haven't kept up on my promise to keep diggining into the .NET unknowns on a daily basis. Lots of excuses but I really need to get over the next .net learning curve bumps.
I am getting pretty OK at C#, I have a fairly large work project and have expanded it into a number of .net corners. I have been poking at Don Box's book but not regularly enough.
At work we have just converted over to .net 1.1 and win 2003 for our servers. An interesting exercise. 1.1 was pretty easy, win 2003 takes some "read the f... book" stuff. Still discovering the differences between the different versions, especially the Web and Standard. One of my deploy tools works on Standard and fails on Web in the UI portion. The only thing that slowed me up in converting my tools was the changing of the deploy directories and IIS setup to make use of new IIS6 features whick seem pretty cools so far. Application pools, etc. but especially the copying of metadata for WebSites and application pool to other servers.
One of my problems in delving more deeply into some of the corners of .net - security, remoting, web services (beyond simple vs.net created) ... is that these aren't really required for my work projects and I can't justify adding complications. I would just as soon have these tools stable