While we get the spam under control. Just had a big blob of it hit this morning.

One of the most frequent questions asked on the community forum is how can I make my userControl act as a containerControl (panel) which allows me to add controls at design time. In V1.0 and V1.1 you had to write a lot if code to do this, but in Whidbey...

The Developer working on http://start.com/1 and http://start.com/2 , steve, is now blogging about it . He has thoughts on what we are doing here and how we are doing it. Please do read his thoughts and give us ideas. - Venkat

Last week, I saw Alan Cooper speak at the patterns & practices Summit . Knowing I would probably get a chance to meet him, I went back to one of his books to brush up on my Cooperisms. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum is probably one of the best...

I haven’t written anything for my blog for sometime now, other matters have been taking my full attention, but I decided it was about time I restarted it so here goes… I recently had a conversation with a colleague that started an interesting thought...

This weekend, we posted the Security Development Lifecycle document on the Security Developer Center . We'll headline this a little later today. This article was written by Steve Lipner and Michael Howard. We considered it important enough that we gave...

In an attempt at our ongoing efforts to confuse everyone coming to MSDN balance the knowledge and workload at MSDN , we have shuffled a few of the Developer Centers around. While I will still be working on the ASP.NET Developer Center , I am reliquishing...

I recently did a podcast interview with Dawn Fotopulos at Landed.fm. The interview content is primarily for job seekers (and people managing their career). Topics covered: -networking -building an effective resume...the future of resumes -how recruiters...

Microsoft released pricing information on Visual Studio 2005 today. Here are some links to take a look at: Press Release: Microsoft Details Pricing and Licensing for Visual Studio 2005 and Simplifies Microsoft Developer Network Subscriptions Microsoft...

As I mentioned the other day , I can't quite let go of the concurrency bug, so the 2nd of my 3 add-on posts to the concurrency series. One thing I didn't talk about explicitly in the original concurrency series is the Win32 API set. I implicated the concurrency...

Earlier today someone suggested that I read this entry from Cyrus . As a performance guy people basically expect me to veto every new idea that might grow the size of anything anywhere. I guess I surprise them when I don't. The fact is that it's very...

Tuesdays March 22nd ADNUG Lunch Time Session. Start: 12pm for a bite to eat, sessions kick off at 12:30 Where: Innovation Centre , Level 2, Santos House, King William Street , Adelaide (Wireless Internet Available) This will be a 60 to 75...