As you may have noticed, I love .NET. My nerd friends love it, too. That’s why I was surprised the other day when one of them asked me what .NET 3.0 was.

It would be reasonable to assume that .NET 3.0 provides a similar upgrade that .NET 1.0 to .NET 2.0 did. It’s not, though. Whereas .NET 2.0 changed a lot of existing aspects of .NET 1.0, .NET 3.0 mostly adds classes. Plus, they’re mostly presentation and gaming classes, so Web and business developers probably won’t be that interested. Hopefully, since it’s built into Vista, we’ll see more and more audio, video, and gaming apps built using the .NET Framework.
While reading Marc’s blog I found a link to Rob Eisenberg’s site, where he provides a very useful multi-part crash course for .NET 3.0. Looks like a great place to start. Also check out the video over at ContentPresenter.com (you’ll have to jump through some hoops–it’s a zipped download that requires a special codec).