Rob Howard, current Microsoft Regional Director, president of Telligent Systems (creator of Community Server ), and former member of the Microsoft ASP.NET team (not to mention a really nice guy) has contributed a video to the Great Minds in Development...

There's a free e-book available from download.microsoft.com. Check it out!

I recently installed a new build of Windows Vista on my day-to-day laptop using a network install, which is very cool. Just boot to the network, point to an image server, kick off the install, and you're good. The problem I had was that I didn't think...

Want to take advantage of cool Windows Live services in your own apps? Peter Laudati , my fellow DE from NJ, has some good links for you .

So, I just got back from a trip to Seattle for some training, and while there, I finally got a chance to spend a morning browsing the Pike Place Market. What an amazing place, and the thought that struck me was how I managed as many visits to Seattle...

My DE counterparts from New Jersey and Atlanta, Peter Laudati and Doug Turnure , have put together some great info on migrating applications from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0

Don't know how I missed this, but apparently last month, we announced the availability of a Community Technology Preview release of a new product, Microsoft Robotics Studio . The product works with the .net Framework 2.0, and can integrate with Visual...

If you're interested in Geotagging, check out GeoTagIT , an "Atlas"-based geotagging/mapping app. You can create geotags for a given location, load collections of geotags, etc.

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Want to know more about what's coming in IIS 7? Here's the place to go: http://www.iis.net/

Here's the info from Andy : Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 6:30 PM Location: 4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA [ map ] Topic: Introduction to Team Edition for Database Professionals By: Andy Leonard Special thanks to this month's sponsor...

With some cool new landscape-screen format devices (such as the Motorola Q) coming out, developers may be interested in some resources Microsoft is providing to make developing (and adapting) apps for this screen format easier. You can find the resources...

There's a new Atlas community technology preview release available, and Nikhil talks about some of the improvements , including the ability to add UpdatePanel controls dynamically at runtime.

Here's an article on WSE 3.0 security that a colleague recommended...I haven't had a chance to read through it, but she recommended it highly, so I'm betting it's worthwhile.

From my friends at NoVaSQL: Good evening. The Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group ( www.novasql.com ) is announcing its next session for 2006 to benefit IT Professionals (DBAs, Developers, Admins, etc.) in the Northern Virginia, Washington DC...

OK, so it's taken me some time, but I finally uploaded a batch of photos to the Mid-Atlantic Code Camp site . You can find them here: http://www.madcodecamp.com/Photoalbum_contents.aspx?Albumid=5 There's more to come, and I'll post again when I...

Here's what's coming this week from Caparea.net : Programming SQL Server 2005 Service Broker Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at 7:00 PM Come learn about this exciting new feature of SQL Server 2005 and how you can leverage it in your...

From my friends at Delaware Valley Sharepoint UG : The next meeting of the Delaware Valley Sharepoint User Group will be on July 26th at 5:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA District office in Malvern, PA Meeting Agenda...

From my friends at FederalASP.org : ****** July is bring a friend month. ****** ****** and ****** ****** July is bring a colleague month. ****** DBSolutions and EEI Communications would like to invite you to the Federal ASP.NET Web Developers...

Scott Guthrie has posted a cool recipe detailing how to allow users to dynamically update the style of your site using master pages and themes... check it out .

You can grab the new community technology preview for the .net Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX) here . There's lots of good content, tutorials, etc. at: http://www.netfx3.com/

If you're doing mobile development, this should be of interest: .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 available for download Microsoft .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 Service Pack 1 has been released as a download . The service pack was driven by...

blinq is an ASP.NET Sandbox project that takes advantage of the upcoming Linq technology to automatically generate ASP.NET forms and UI based on your database schema.

Scott Forsyth , who's part of the excellent web team at OrcsWeb , wrote a nice post about using aspnet_regiis.exe to set the default ASP.NET version for new web sites withough forcing an upgrade on all existing sites.

Some webcast links you may be interested in: Find the Top 10 Microsoft Webcasts, as rated by viewers Coding Basics webcast series Game Development webcast series Interactive Developer webcast calendar