June, 2005

Scott Guthrie pulls back the covers on Atlas, the ASP.NET team's project to simplify and speed AJAX-style development with ASP.NET: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/06/28/416185.aspx Good stuff.

From my friends at the Northern Virginia SQL Server User Group: The Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group ( www.novasql.com ) is announcing its sixth session for 2005 to benefit IT Professionals (DBAs, Developers, Admins, etc.) in the Northern...

Thursday night, I had the pleasure of presenting to the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group . During my talk I showed how you can use the new ObjectDataSource control in ASP.NET 2.0, specifically, how you can add a new DataSet object to the App_Code folder...

I'm at least nominally on vacation, so I'm taking liberties and combining two blog posts into one... Thanks to Jason Gaylord , I just found out that there's a downloadable Snippet Editor for Visual Studio 2005, Beta 2 . Folks who've seen me demo VS...

Chris Williams, the founder of the Roanoke Valley .NET User Group, is now in Charleston, SC, and he's planning a Code Camp in Charleston in September of this year. Chris is looking for speakers, so if you're interested, check out their site: http...

Shame on me that I forgot last week to mention Robert Hurlbut's excellent Birds of a Feather session on Developing with Least Privilege. It was a nice opportunity to have an informal discussion about some of the challenges involved, and Robert showed...

Only another hour or so left in Tech-Ed officially. I did my session on Developing with Least Privilege this morning at 9am. Good group, and remarkably wide awake, given that the attendee party at Universal Studios Orlando was last night. Thanks to all...

(while supplies last): …if you could have a pre-built VPC image with the Team System Beta on it? You’d probably need at least a 2 GHz processor, 1.5 GB RAM, and at least 10 GB of available hard disk space. Of course, you’d also need Virtual PC 2004...

The first public build of WSE 3.0 is now available on MSDN. This build requires Whidbey beta 2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/default.aspx If you're working with web services, you should take a look.

For those of you who haven't heard yet, we announced at Tech-Ed this morning that Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 will all launch the week of November 7th. Sounds like November should be a very busy and exciting month for...

Steve Ballmer's keynote was pretty fun. Especially interesting was some of the results of last year's rapproacehment between Microsoft and Sun, including work to make Sun's identity management solution and Active Directory work together, as well as the...

Heading to Orlando in the morning...getting up at 4:30, which is less than 4 hours from now. Woohoo! I'm very excited about the coming week at Tech-Ed 2005. I can tell that most of Microsoft is already there or on the way because my email inbox has...

From my friends at Central Maryland ASP.NET Professionals User Group : Meeting Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Central Maryland ASP.NET Professionals (cmap-online.org) Location: UMBC Technology Center 1450 South Rolling...

From my colleague Aaron Margosis : Tech*Ed 2005 in Orlando, FL (USA) will include significant coverage of "non-admin" topics: · SEC350 - "Tips and Tricks to Running Windows with Least Privilege" , presented by Aaron Margosis, and · SEC351...

You can still get some of the great content via the simulcast Webcasts : Microsoft Tech·Ed 2005 is sold out but you can still explore Microsoft technologies and solutions in this series of webcasts. Join us through the end of May for pre-Tech·Ed...