MSDN Channel 9 has an interview with Ken Levy showing off the new XML tools in Visual Studio 2005. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=64642 Running Time - 41:52 Download Size - 134 MB These new XML tools will be especially useful to developers...

Susan says : 1. Composing languages: a DSL can also be categorized based on whether it an encapsulated DSL that represents an application domain (e.g. finance, medical, etc) or an aspectual DSL that represents a concern that cuts across the application...

(Ah, yes ... time for one of Gretchen's quarterly "why I love my job" pontifications. "Pontification" ... is that even a word?) Last week, I experienced a moment that reaffirmed for me why I love my job. A few weeks ago, I extended an invitation...

A bit of trivia for a Thursday afternoon!! I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg! The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in awrod...

Before anyone accuses me of ignoring the current release of ASP.NET in favor of 2.0...and I'll admit it, I like 2.0 much better, though I do recognize lots of folks still have to live in the 1.0/1.1 world...I was talking with my colleage Geoff Snowman...

A Unit Testing Walkthrough with Visual Studio Team Test : Learn about the unit testing features of Team Test from a TDD, test-then-code approach with this walkthrough.

Cool article on how the guts of ASP.NET are changing from 1.1 to 2.0 : While 100 percent backward compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0 brings a number of internal changes to ASP.NET. These include changes to the code model, compilation, page...

From the release today: The Audiovox SMT 5600, a Microsoft Windows Mobile-based handset, has proven to be a favorite with users and has received numerous accolades from the industry, winning both critical acclaim and industry awards. PC Magazine...

You can't get the user's password. You'd think that'd be obvious....

I have some friends of mine that run an on-again, off again blog site called ShiftyEye . The engine is a home grown ASP (!) app written by my colleague D. Clay Smith and contributed to by Clay and my bud Harris (who's leaving Atlanta and moving to New...

http://www.ineta.org/ If you had the chance to work with the starter kits in ASP.NET 1.0/1.1 , you know that they are good frameworks for quickly getting up and running for particular scenarios, as well as being good learning tools. It should come...

If you're using ZTP, BizTalk, or anything that uses Enterprise Services (COM+), after installing Windows Server 2003 SP1, you need to install the post-SP1 hotfix listed in 896729. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896729 From the article: Provide...