http://www.powertogether.com/ - not a bad deal at all, IMO.

I wanted to write a quick note to say THANKS to everyone who commented or emailed to offer their good wishes or prayers for our son, John (nicknamed "Big John" by my wife). I will eventually have time to respond to emails, etc., but figured that a quick...

Hi all, A quick personal note...I will probably not be posting very much over the next few weeks. My wife and I were blessed this weekend with a new baby boy, our second, and it's a bad news / good news kinda thing. The bad news is that he was in a...

Nikhil Kothari , who's one of the brains behind many things ASP.NET, has just released an update to a cool utility he calls the WebDevelopmentHelper. WebDevelopmentHelper allows you to inspect the HTTP requests being sent to and from a web application...

http://www.visitmix.com/ - save the date!

Tomorrow is Web Wednesday again, and tomorrow we'll be looking at the ASP.NET AJAX Framework , currently in the Beta 2 release. This is the first of three devCasts on ASP.NET AJAX...next week we'll look at the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, and the following...

Links to some FAQs and a list of known issues when running as admin, or as a standard user can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/windowsvista/

Looking for developer security info? Check out the Patterns & Practices Security WIKI on Channel 9 .

Got a question about Visual Studio 2005 Team System? Check this site to see if it's among the FAQs that have been posted so far: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/support/faqs/default.aspx

When troubleshooting applications, or when developing your own exception handling routines, it's sometimes useful to get a better idea of which exceptions may be related to an exception you're more familiar with. Many folks, for example, may be familar...

I've been somewhat remiss of late in my focus on what I consider to be a very important aspect of the discipline of software development, namely least privilege. I was fortunate to have one of the great folks in my local developer community, Randy Hayes...

I'm a little late in posting this, but for folks who are interested in our new XNA Game Studio Express product, you may want to check out some of the sessions available for download from Gamefest 2006 . There's an entire track dedicated to XNA and Visual...

If you were wondering whether it's ever going to be possible to get a hold of the cool Sysinternals tools again, wonder no more...you can now get all the tools as a suite at the Technet website . And there's an entire section dedicated to Sysinternals...

One of the top developer geeks in my area (and also a Microsoft Regional Director ), Brian Noyes, will be presenting an Advanced .net 2.0 Master Class December 4th-8th at the Reston, VA Microsoft Technology Center . Brian has shared with me that they...

One of the things that makes developing ASP.NET applications very cool is that you can rapidly prototype, tweak, and update your application, without having to stop and restart the web server. This includes assemblies (DLLs) used by your application for...

From my pal Andy Leonard: Richmond SQL Server Users Group 9 Nov 2006 Page Vest SQL Server 2005 Service Broker Primer Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 6:30 PM Location: 4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA [ map ] Special thanks to this month...

Join us for the next FAQ Fridays devBrainPick event tomorrow at noon eastern time, when we'll have special guest Randy Hayes joining us to discuss Least Privilege and software development. Randy Hayes is the President of the Central Maryland Association...

How? Try the Virtual Labs Express . Each lab is 20-30 minutes, and provides an introduction to the newest features in a variety of developer tools and technologies: ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Studio 2005 Visual Studio Team System BizTalk Server...

RTM! A big milestone, and one that will provide developers with the ability to comfortably move forward with .net 3.0 projects. Next up... Orcas ! See here for Windows Vista availability dates.

From my friends at SUGDC : Thursday, November 9th, 2006, SUGDC will host a free event including lectures from industry experts, a Tech Expo featuring leading area companies, prize giveaways, and more! (Dulles, VA) SUGDC, the most prominent Sharepoint...

Since I've already used it for a couple of posts, I thought I'd share the following from Rob Howard over at Telligent: BlogMailr is all about making publishing to your blog easy. There is nothing to download, nothing to install, it's free for personal...

Want to learn more about Windows Mobile development, but don't have a device? Check out the Windows Mobile Virtual Labs . Published with blogmailr

Here's a class library that will help: http://www.xihsolutions.net/dotmsn/ Published with blogmailr

Get 'em: .net Framework 3.0 runtime Windows SDK for .net Framework 3.0 And don't forget to keep up with http://www.netfx3.com/ for the latest downloads, samples, etc.

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