Check out my cohort Joe Stagner's latest project, finally up on MSDN. The Code Room: Vegas is all about the cat and mouse game of hacking. Watch it and you'll have nightmares about SQL injection attacks in your own systems!

The February CTP of the runtime and development components for WinFX is now available. Realize that since WPF is still a work in process, there are some changes to namespaces, syntax, etc. For a good perspective on the changes check out some posts by...

Paul Lockwood , one of our great community leaders, will be speaking at the next meeting of the Atlanta .NET Users Group which will be Monday, Feb 27th at Microsoft's office in Alpharetta. As I write that, I start to chuckle and almost go back and change...

Tim Sneath, a Technical Evangelist on all things Vista, has posted a great article on where to start if you are new to WPF . It makes a great follow-up to our MSDN Events session on WPF development. [UPDATE: Jim Cooney pointed out that I forgot the...

As a great follow up to our MSDN Events series this quarter on Mobile Development, join Maarten Struys (MVP) as he presents a 13 part webcast series on building mobile applications with Visual Studio 2005, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, SQL Server 2005...

This article on MSDN gives a great overview of how to work with the Excel object model in a Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office project.

Halo 2 for Vista

Here's a useful resource - an article on migrating one of our best practice applications (".NET Pet Shop") from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0. Along the way, look for using the System.Transactions namespace, an upgrade of the membership elements, master...