Wikipedia talk:WikiProject .NET

Infobox

I'll take a crack at an InfoBox. -- Chris 14:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Started - stole the code from Computer & video games Infobox -- Chris 14:44, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely needs work. Will continue when I return to the office. Ideas for the fields? -- Chris 14:50, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Usage:

{{Infobox .NET| title = Something.NET
|image = [[Image:Microsoft dotNET Logo.jpg|center|200px|Microsoft .NET]]
|developer = X
|released = X 
|version = X
|genre = X
|platforms = X
|requirements = X
}}

{{Infobox .NET| title = Something.NET
|image = [[Image:Microsoft dotNET Logo.jpg|center|200px|Microsoft .NET]]
|developer = SomeDeveloper
|released = 2005-09-01
|version = v99.99
|genre = Graphics Editing
|platforms = Windows, *nix
|requirements = 2GB memory, Punchcard reader
}}

Great job Chris. I think some of the fields can be removed, it looks so heavy and some fields are not necessary as "Input", "Media", "Designer", "Publisher" (as in our case is the same as the developer). I already did the same yesterday on the .NET article. have a look at it. Waiting for your feedback. -- Svest 17:08, September 1, 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}

Thanks. Yah, it was just a direct rip from Template:Infobox VG. I'll trim it up. -- Chris 18:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There we go. Let me know if it needs more fields (required or optional) -- Chris 18:48, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great and complete. Maybe instead of "release date" we should mention "latest release date" because of the renewal of versions. Great job again. -- Svest 17:08, September 1, 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}

Done and with "version" for 'Latest version'. -- Chris 20:50, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What's the difference between "version" and "latest version"????? D e ryc k C. 08:01:41, 2005-09-12 (UTC)

I didn't add another field, just re-labeled the 'version' field as 'latest version'. Chris 14:50, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Understand. I wonder if there's a usable logo of visual studio.net or visual basic.net? D e ryc k C. 08:46, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stub

Just started the stub template - {{.NET-stub}}. All it really could use is a small enough graphic. -- Chris 19:07, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic. We really needed that template. -- Svest 17:08, September 1, 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}

By the way, stubs should be proposed at Wikipedia:WikiPro ject Stub sorting/Proposals. Or atleast mentioned to that WikiProject. (I've added it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries) --Mairi 03:52, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Mairi for your notice. And thanks for your initiative. -- Svest 01:30, September 3, 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}

Please read the complete reply here Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries#.7B.7B.NET-stub.7D.7D. Cheers -- Svest 01:44, September 3, 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}

Cheers. D e ryc k C. 10:20:58, 2005-09-05 (UTC)

Heya all

Dunno if anyone is interested, but I'm working away at MDAC and will probably be updating ADO sometime soon. Maybe after that I can work away on ADO.NET. - 211.30.181.143 12:50, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anon. Glad to know that. I am sure your help in ADO.NET will be appreciated. Cheers -- Svest 16:45, September 10, 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}…

Hi I can help on .NET piece if any let me know if any help is required Thanks Arun

Notice Board

Would you consider using Wikipedia:Microsoft notice board for the time being until more people become involved? - 211.30.181.143 02:58, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A very good idea. Thanx. Svest 03:00, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Done. Svest 03:23, September 11, 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}

Hope this can attract people. D e ryc k C. 07:59:35, 2005-09-12 (UTC)

Project directory

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Wikipedia Day Awards

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Project template

Are there any objections to changing the project template (Template:WikiProject .NET) to be more "standard"? Right now, it sticks out when placed with other templates (ex. Talk:DotNetNuke). Not only that, it doesn't look very good at all. I may also try to add assessment parameters for it. Comments or is this project dead? Mahanga^Talk 04:16, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm not part of this project, but I came here to also suggest standardization. Before you waste your time making a new template, let's see if there's any activity here, because it seems pretty dead to me. Rocket000 22:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the project page, there is some activity, so maybe they just don't like talk pages. Rocket000 22:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology netural

It would be nice if we can get everyone on the same page and have an effort to change terminology from MSIL to CLI and replace references to ".NET Framework" to "CLR" or "CLI compliant" wherever possible to remain neutral to the standards and no forget about other CLI implementations including Mono and PNET. ZacBowling^talk 04:01, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for .NET

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Coordinators' working group

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Maltese Version

Hi all .NET lovers , I am Maltese and edit the Maltese Wikipedia. I am also a VB.Net programmer and so I wanted to translate some of the articles on en.wikipedia.org to mt.wikipedia.org. Any comments may be left on my talk pages.

Dylan Borg (talk) 20:52, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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User script to detect unreliable sources

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