October 04
Use the source, Luke
Having spent a number of years programming in C++ with libs like MFC and ATL I grew used to being able to step into the framework source when debugging. It can be inordinately helpful when the framework behavior defies your expectations. So it has always been a little bit of a trial in .NET that the closest you can get to this is to go spelunking with
Reflector.
So its great that
Scott Guthrie has announced that MS will be releasing the source to the .NET framework for use with VS 2008. Now you will be able to look under the hood at issues as you hit them. We've been asking for this for a while, it's great that the hoops (usually around cleaning up the source for distribution) have been overcome.