Date: Aug. 7, 2002
Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/
Source Author or Organization: Microsoft Corporation

The . NET Show is a streaming and downloadable 70 minute video presentation in Windows Media format for developers considering a switch from earlier Microsoft or other programming environments. Presented in a television news and talk show format, .NET Show features an interview with .NET Framework Lead Program Manager Brad Abrams and .Net Platform Development Lead Chris Anderson. Viewers can expect to be exposed to the basic architecture, the application development trends that led to the platform and the component languages and tools.

The conversation includes: a history of the way the new platform's primary concepts arose from a collaboration of several different Microsoft programming teams, the primary features that might draw a developer to .NET, the incremental way .NET can be implemented, how the new environment simplifies component development, the Common Language Runtime (CLR), exception handling in .NET, programming in C#, the elimination of "DLL Hell" and the misconception that .NET is only for developers interested in Web Services.

The .NET Show requires a browser the with Windows Media plug-in installed or the Windows Media Player application.