Announced this week at VSLive! in Orlando , Microsoft will be offering a new version of Visual Studio , one that will hopefully provide a good starting point for Visual Basic and Web developers getting started in the professional development world. With...

I may have posted this before, but it bears repeating...one of the major challenges for speakers (and their audiences) is being able to see what's being presented, particularly in large venues. And while it's easy to change the font size in your IDE so...

Then you may want to download the Visual Studio 2005 Team System 1204 CTP Extensibility Kit . Here's the description: Overview The Visual Studio 2005 Team System 1204 CTP Extensibility Kit includes a variety of documents, samples and utilities that you...

Optimizing Communication and Collaboration with Microsoft Technologies April 7, 2005 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Microsoft Conference Center | 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 500 | Washington, DC Free event created by developers for developers, consisting...

This is way cool… [via Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium ]

What do you do when you have a page that consistently hangs in IIS? Typically, you start with standard troubleshooting techniques...what's changed since the last time it was working, are there parts of the page you can separate out to isolate the faulty...

Another tidbit from Aaron Margosis : Changing the system date, time and/or time zone . Addressing one of the most common complaints about running as non-admin

Scoble reports on some security discussions he’s had recently: Getting together with other geeks has been part of this industry for more than 30 years and it's no less important today than it was back in the mid 70s when Wozniak showed his Apple...

This comes from one of the technical lists I'm on... Have you ever wanted to resize your browser to a specific size, either for testing purposes, or just because that's how you like your browser sized? Well, there's a quick and easy way to do it with...

Fellow Microsoftie Jonathan Hardwick has provided a new resource for information on running/developing using LUA: http://nonadmin.editme.com The site is set up as a wiki, so you can register and contribute to the site, too, if you choose. Thanks to Jonathan...

I just posted a new article containing a list of available online security resources from Microsoft. It's not the end-all, be-all list of security URLs, but it does contain a large number of resources, some of which you may already be familiar with, and...

Gisli Olafsson writes of a downloadable training kit for ASP.NET with C#:' Check out this training kit that you can download. PLEASE NOTE: I do not have this kit, so I cannot send it to you. If you post a comment on my blog, or email me asking for it...

Somewhat last minute, but I wanted to let folks know that I'll be presenting tonight, November 4th, at the Roanoke .NET User Group in Roanoke, Virginia tonight. I'll be sharing the duties with my local Developer Community Champion, Geoff Snowman , and...

Sam Gentile, a .net rockstar par excellence, has revamped his site, SamGentile.com based on DotNetNuke, and has asked for a little help in getting the word out. I'm more than happy to oblige, as Sam's a great resource for information on the CLR, Rotor...

What do the following sites have in common?    - http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/  - http://www.macworldexpo.com/  - http://lighthouse-partners.com/linux/home.htm   They're all running on Windows Server 2003:   http://news.netcraft.com/archives...

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...

There's a cool feature of ASP.NET 2.0 that allows you to quickly and easily take a site down for maintenance while sending users a friendly message. Just drop a file called app_offline.htm in the root of your site. However, there's a little-known feature...

We're just over a week out from the next Mid-Atlantic Code Camp , and it's time to pull the covers off of one of the surprises I have in store...a costume contest! Given that we're holding the event just two days before halloween, this seemed like...

I've got several user group talks scheduled for the next few weeks...here's the list: March 31st, 2005 I will be presenting at the Richmond.NET User Group on new features in ASP.NET 2.0. The meeting starts at 6:30pm. April 7th, 2005 I will be presenting...

Just got back from doing a presentation on Visual Studio Team System at the BaltoMSDN users group in Hunt Valley, MD. Had a ton of great questions from the group, and had a great time with the presentation. The sponsor of the group that provided the meeting...

Chris Kinsman presented Tuesday night at the Capital Area .NET User Group on team development, covering both current tools and technologies, as well as Visual Studio Team System. Chris discussed everything from setting up the development environment,...

For those of you who may need time to test Windows XP Service Pack 2 in your environment before rolling it out to all your systems, Microsoft provides a tool that allows you to temporarily prevent SP2 from being installed on machines with Automatic Updates...

Do you have friends or relatives who need help with security, but who don't have your level of computer savvy? Would you like to provide them with a resource for their security questions other than your email address? Well, here's your chance. Microsoft...

From my friends at CMAP : Central Maryland ASP.NET Professionals Tuesday, August 2nd: 6:30 PM CMAP Main Meeting UMBC Technology Center 1450 South Rolling Road Halethorpe, MD 21227 Main Topic Rich Data Interfaces with the DataGridView...

Happy new year! Since I get a fair number of questions and requests related to my books through my blog, I thought I'd post an article providing resources for the books. The article can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/articles/345247.aspx ,...