Welcome to my new blog, Visual Stuart .NET. My old blog was getting rather, well, old, and some of the material was rather dated. I determined it was worth more to you, gentle reader, to pull the plug on the past, than spend time preserving a few modest gems.

Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
— Alfred North Whitehead, 1929

Besides, there is a whole new word to explore. Last week was the world wide launch of Microsoft's project Orcas, comprised of .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, C# 3.0, and Windows Server 2008. There's more to come, such as the .NET 3.5 SP 1 with ASP.NET MVC and the ADO.NET Entity Framework, and SQL Server 2008 expected in August 2008.

So let's get started in the tradition of all beginnings since Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

using System;

namespace VisualStuart
{
  class Program
  {
    static void Main( string[] args )
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "Hello, world!" );
    }
  }
}

Deep cleansing breath in. Hold. And exhale. Excellent. Let's begin.