Design information for the Microsoft Dev Platform

Developer Evangelist David Isbitski

Creating and using Work Items in Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Code Free Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET 2.0 using the Membership Provider and Login controls

Developing ASP.NET 2.0 sites in the local file system, using Visual Web Developer and the new Visual Studio Web Server.

Shows how to use the new XmlDataSource control to consume an RSS feed, and display the result using a DataList control bound to the XmlDataSource control.

Demonstrates drag & drop databinding using the Server Explorer window in Visual Studio 2005

Demonstrates the Intellisense statement completion and validation features of Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 that rely on XSD schemas, and how you can create your own custom schemas to drive these features.

Demonstrates how to easily create a read/update web service with a .net 2.0 DataSet, and then bind to the web service using the ObjectDataSource control.