For those of you (like me) who hate popup ads and windows, check out http://toolbar.msn.com/ to get the MSN Toolbar preview for IE...

Barry Gervin posts some interesting information he derived about Datasets. While it's true that datasets are serialized as XML (passed around that way between tiers, etc), they aren't represented that way in memory... http://objectsharp.com/blogs/barry...

MSDN Canada DevChat - Building Media Center Enabled Applications 01/03/2004 1:00 PM - 01/03/2004 2:00 PM Welcome Time: 12:55 PM Language: English Online Web Cast Online Canada General Event Information Products: .NET and Visual Studio...

from the Toronto .NET Security Event.... http://radio.weblogs.com/0131618/ Too cool.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Security Information for Developers With Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft is introducing a set of security technologies that will help improve Windows XP-based computers' ability to withstand malicious attacks...

You can download this now at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/asprk/ This is a great resource for current ASP.NET Developers, as well as people new to development on ASP.NET.... Also, for those who do work with classic ASP or PHP and want to learn...

What is VSLive? A professional development opportunity for developers • A chance to learn from the leading minds in application development • An opportunity to meet with those leading minds in person • An opportunity for...

When Riverdeep wanted to write new features for The Print Shop in C#, it didn't want to have to convert the entire 20-year-old C++ code base of The Print Shop forward into managed code at once. The existing 1.4 million lines code were not structured well...

Great tip from Bill Brockbank... Useful in very tightly locked-down environments.... .NET Data Access Architecture Guide http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/daag.asp ***********************************...

I decided to post some of the questions we received from user's to my blog, read on for those interested... Also, the names of the people have been removed to protect the innocent.... Question: what happens with interop and optional arguments for mthod...

Presented .NET Remoting to about 300 students at the University of Western Ontario last night. The lucky attendees also got to see a relatively new build on Windows code-name Longhorn, with some new UI changes over the PDC build, including facial recognition...