This is great news: When I was searching for some MSDN links for Whidbey stuff in http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/library last night, I was redirected to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/default.aspx . I am really impressed by the new site. Now you can...

Just published this week...a productivity study that demonstrates the dramatic improvements in ASP.NET 2.0 over classic ASP. Among the highlights: ASP.NET 2.0 developers accomplished 113% more tasks in the same amount of time as ASP developers....

The Enterprise Library was released this weekend, and if you like the idea of avoiding reinventing the wheel, you should definitely take a look. Enterprise Library is a collection of seven reusable and extensible application blocks for enterprise .NET...

It has come to my attention that certain individuals are taunting their compatriots with something supposedly called "Spang". There is no such thing. It's all an elaborate hoax designed to annoy others. Ignore these people. UPDATE : At the risk...

Well, we've got an event for you, if you're in the mid-Atlantic region: The Enterprise Development Reference Architecture is our reference architecture for creating a service-oriented architecture. Previously codenamed Shadowfax, it provides code and...

This is very cool...if you want to see how the built-in local-only web server from Visual Studio 2005 works, you can get the source, thanks to Dmitry Robsman : Here is the link to Cassini sources for v2 of ASP.NET / .NET Framework. New to Cassini...

Anil John points out some good resources for dealing with input in ASP.NET: One of the basic tenets of secure coding is that ALL input is EVIL and should be validated and sanitized before being allowed into the application. This is also definitely...

Just had to pass this along: The Home Computer of 2004, as seen from 1954 They were right about scientific progress, that's for sure! UPDATE : OK, OK! I've been had...it's a hoax . So it's not true, but I still think it's pretty funny. And a good photoshop...

Recently, I had someone make the following comment on a post announcing IE 7 : Hahahaha....dude we don't need it! I'm a Microsoft person 100%, but creating something we already have is useless! We have Firefox! The FLAWLESS web suite. It's awesome enough...

...it's simply too good not to blog. NOAA tell us why it would be a bad idea to try nuking a hurricane: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html I'm not surprised that someone, somewhere out there thinks it would be a good idea...I'm just amused that...

Scott Allen has some interesting observations on Silverlight and user interaction : There is no mouse double-click event on UIElements in Silverlight . Some people think this is an odd omission. Silverlight's cousin WPF can fire a double-click event,...

WinFS Beta 1, the new relational file system for Windows, has been released on MSDN Subscriber Downloads . This release is designed to offer developers a preview of WinFS capabilities. WinFS will be in beta when Windows Vista ships and will RTM afterwards...

Includes two webcasts presented by our local Developer Community Champion, Geoff Snowman , and one of our local Regional Directors, Vishwas Lele : MSDN Architecture Webcast: Interoperability and Migration Between .NET and COM (Level 200) Thursday, February...

Microsoft Research has a short but sweet paper on using hackers' tricks against them, including using differential file system scans (using WinDiff) from infected vs. clean OS boots to detect hidden files. A good read if you're determined to attempt cleanup...

My colleague Brian Hitney notes a good post on ASP.NET custom error handling, and even manages to get in a plug for this weekend's Richmond Code Camp , where the post's author will be speaking: Chris Love has a good post about error handling in ASP.NET...

Guess sometimes it pays not to be a *nix derivative: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5343325.html Apparently, the Windows implementation of Kerberos is not affected because we re-implemented it from scratch based on the MIT specification, rather than...

Attend the .NET To Go Mobility Roadshow Have you been thinking about taking your code mobile? The .NET To Go Mobility Roadshow will provide you with the answers to your mobile development questions. Digging into the details, using more code and fewer...

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...

http://www.winproteam.org/ Tonight's meeting of WinProTeam Vienna was a good overview of data access in .net by Sahil Malik . The talk was well-received and thorough, including some good advice, including "Don't screw up connection pooling" (my personal...

I received the following notice from my friends at the Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group: The Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group ( www.novasql.com ) is announcing its third session for 2005 to benefit IT Professionals (DBAs, Developers...

The ASP.NET Provider Toolkit site is a great resource for information about the provider model in ASP.NET 2.0, including white papers, articles, and downloadable sample providers (the MS Access provider samples are currently available for download )....

In addition to last week's announcement of the addition of Visual Studio Standard Edition to the VS lineup, there's also a Special Edition offer available for a limited time. For $549 upgrade or $749 full, you can get: A development and test copy of Windows...

Brian Goldfarb was kind enough to pass along the following: J.D. Meier and team have been busy at work building awesome ASP.NET 2.0 security content -- I posted some links earlier on my blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/ ) , but here is an excellent...

Concerned about spyware on your machine? Want to find out how Microsoft is addressing this threat? Then you may want to check out the beta of a new Microsoft AntiSpyware product: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx The...

Spending the day in the star-studded Patterns & Practices summit at our local Microsoft Technology Center here in Reston, VA. So far, it's been excellent, and makes me really bummed that I'm only able to be here for the first day (of three), as I...