Threat Modeling is an important technique that can help improve the security of the applications you're developing. While Microsoft has made some guidance available on threat modeling, including a book from MS Press , and a free tool for threat modeling...

Rick LaPlante has a great blog entry describing the changes we're making to the pricing of Visual Studio Team System in response to feedback we've gotten from customers. Good stuff.

Got the following from the folks who are building Visual Studio Team System: VSTS Webcast Series The following Webcasts were recently recorded be members of the product team and are an excellent resource for exploring VSTS: Visual Studio 2005...

Jonathan Cogley passed these along, so I thought I'd share: Here are some places and tools to learn more about .NET and C#: Free IDEs http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/ Visual Studio .NET 2005 Express http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default...

One of the questions that often comes up during presentations on our upcoming Visual Studio 2005 Team System, when demoing the Application Designer that's built into the Team Edition for Software Architects, is whether it's possible to create your own...

Just got some very good news for small shops who are interested in the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 Team System, and in particular Team Foundation Server, but concerned about the cost. To help address the needs of independent consultants, small ISVs, and...

So if you missed the David Chappell Indigo event this evening, you missed out on hearing about: The three essential points you need to know about Indigo today The fact that David Chappell is *not* Dave Chappelle (the comedian), even though he...

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As I've mentioned a few times before , we have the privilege of hosting David Chappell in our Reston office tomorrow, May 12th, and one of the events we have planned is an evening discussion of the upcoming Indigo communications stack. It's sure to be...

OK. If you take a look at http://www.ugmidatlantic.com/ , you'll quickly see that I'm no graphic designer, judging from the logo I created (I used Visio, since it was the only place I knew I could find templates for Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,...

Bagels and pastries: hundreds Developers: 200 Sessions: 29 Pizzas: 25 Hours: 12 Tracks: 5 The experience: Priceless I'm finally recovered enough from Mid-Atlantic Code Camp 1 to blog about it. What a day. I arrived at 7:40am to find that several...

...and all through the blogosphere... OK, I'm just not poetic enough to carry that one off, so I'll just say, I'm excited and anxious about the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Code Camp , which will kick off at 9am tomorrow morning. I had a chance to sit down...

Just got the following from my friends at NoVaSQL: You're Invited! Join us May 23 at the Northern Virginia SQL Server User Group (NOVA SQL) meeting, serving the local SQL Server community through networking and education. This presentation will...

If you're planning to attend the Mid-Atlantic Code Camp this Saturday, please plan to arrive by 9am. I just realized that the current session schedule shows the first session starting at 10:15am. Unfortunately, I neglected to add the registration and...

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...

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...

What a cool idea! The MSDN folks have taken the code used to support the ASP.NET Forums , and extended it to provide their own MSDN Forums , now in beta. Some of the new stuff they've added is described here: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost...

Well there's an upcoming conference just for you, running in Chicago, IL on May 25th-26th: The Mainframe Migration Conference 2005 is the event for senior executives in companies relying on the mainframe for their mission-critical applications....

In addition to a set of tips that I blogged a while back in my life before Microsoft, at one point or another, someone sent me an XP/2003 theme file that configures a machine with good settings for doing demos, particularly with VS 2005, since it no longer...

Ever wanted to give Microsoft feedback or suggestions on products? While I'm always happy to hear suggestions, comments, or complaints from customers, the reality is that unless it's about a product built by a team I know people on, telling me may...

Another question I received recently that I wanted to follow up on was whether it's possible to store data for the ASP.NET 2.0 Profile feature in a separate SQL Server database (as opposed to the default, which uses a local instance of SQL Server 2005...

As a follow-up to a customer event I presented at yesterday, I wanted to post the download link for the MSF 4.0 Agile methodology, currently in beta: Download here . MSF Agile is one of the two process methodology templates that will ship with Visual...

Just got the following from my friends at the Roanoke Valley .net User Group : Is your .NET code error free? Does it run as expected the very first time? Join us Thursday(May 5th), 6pm - Advance Auto Parts training room at Crossroads mall...