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Sam Ramji reminded me that he and I need to talk about Port25 , the new website Microsoft just launched, which is dedicated to communications and discussion surrounding the open source software lab that's run at Microsoft. Bill Hilf, GM at Microsoft,...

As we speak I am sitting in the Microsoft Technology Summit, an invitation-only event in Redmond. We've invited people from all over the world, people who are not very close to the "Microsoft community" as that term is traditionally understood, to come...

I did not know this, but VS2005 ships a library of re-usable and re-distributable images. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246582(VS.80).aspx . You can use them in your own applications, to make them look and feel like VS. Normally you...

DotNetZip Library .NET 2.0 does Compression [Update 30 October 2007]: I moved this library to a CodePlex project, called DotNetZip. See www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip . It does zip creation, extraction, passwords, ZIP64, Unicode, SFX, and more. It is...

ASP.NET 2.0 includes membership services , which is a built-in mechanism for validating and storing user credentials, as well as storing and managing user profile information. ASP.NET Membership uses a service provider model to allow "any backing store...

Virtual Server 2005 and Linux Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now a free download Virtual Server 2005 previously was licensed at an extra fee. Now it is a free download, usable on any Windows Server 2003. You can also install and run it on Windows...