I have been working with Industrial applications for last 3.5 years here in ABB Corporate Research Center Bangalore.  You might be wondering what this .NET guy is doing there with Industrial Automation.  Even I thought the same before making the decision of joining ABB. It was really a great experience.  If you don’t have any exposure to industrial applications using Microsoft technologies, you should try ABB or any similar firms. You will definitely get excited once you see the robots movement through your C# program. Here at ABB, we do most of the configuration, control & monitoring applications for the dev ices (eg; - Robots, Relay etc).  Definitely, this is not pure C#/.NET programming. We should know all the layers such as protocol, communication channel etc and it is quite interesting and challenging.  As you know challenging work is just one factor of career, and ABB lack in some other aspects. Hence I decided to take a break from Industrial automation domain.  I thought I will write this blog, before I leave office. Thanks to all for their help and support, hope we will meet somewhere else.  As  you know, this world is so small

Exciting news for all .NET fans! You don’t have to use the reflectors (disassemblers) to explore the internals of .NET libraries.

Microsoft is planning to release the source code of .NET framework. Microsoft will begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows).  We’ll then be adding more libraries in the months ahead (including WCF, Workflow, and LINQ).  The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).

You’ll be able to download the .NET Framework source libraries via a standalone install (allowing you to use any text editor to browse it locally).  MS will also provide integrated debugging support of it within VS 2008. 
Please refer Scott Guthrie’s blog  for more details.