OK, I'll stop with the Whidbey articles for a while, but it will take a bounty. Go out and find someone using VS/VB 6 and convince them to try .NET. A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey" (aka, the top 10 features coming soon)...

Through a heroic effort , the great editorial staff at MSDN (not including me -- I just watched the magic happen, and shuttled e-mails) have rammed this one onto the ASP.NET Developer Center . Compare & Contrast ASP.NET and Jakarta Struts. Enjoy...

For those of you working with ASP.NET Mobile Controls (the creatures formerly known as MMIT), there's a new device update. Headlined at the ASP.NET Developer Center (and I'd appreciate the click-throughs), or go direct at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

Just sent up a new article from the fine Stephen Walther on some more of the new features in ASP.NET Whidbey. This one in particular blew my little mind: Rich XML Data Binding The ASP.NET ”Whidbey” data controls support a variety of rich...

I was playing with ComponentOne 's Paypal ASP.NET control this night, and it's quite cool! It lets you easily add AddtoCart and Checkout functionality to a website. BTW - the control is part of the *free* [sorry, had to] Visual Basic Resource Kit ...

OK, this is horrendously like a press release, but there you go -- the talks that will be part of webcast week are now live at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/training/webcasts/default.aspx TTFN - Kent

Fresh from Roy hisself, his first MSDN article, now live on the ASP.NET Developer Center Creating a plug-in framework TTFN - Kent

A nice survey of many of the available User Agent strings that may hit your sites. (OK, 90% of them may be one of them, but please, please don't forget the others) http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm TTFN - Kent

Amazingly enough, my very first Longhorn-related posting. Scott has designed the XAML keyboard we'll all be using in 2004 , er 2008 , er soon . TTFN - Kent Disclaimer : I have no clue when Longhorn is going to ship. Really. I just picked those dates...

OK, on the ASP.NET Developer Center we can't have Shark Week , but we can have Webcast Week. Coming to a screen near you January 19-23. Five days! Ten talks! Ken Getz! Michele Leroux Bustamante! Paul Murphy! You'll be thrilled, amazed and educated! ...

Things are slowing down here at MSDN for some holiday, and I'm tinkering with the ASP.NET Developer Center . In particular, I added navigation webparts to two of my longer pages: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/building/web/default.aspx...

How can you go from a block of code on an ASP.NET Web page to a polished Server Control? Ask Steve Smith: Evolving Custom Controls TTFN - Kent

Today's new article on the ASP.NET Developer Center : Paul Sheriff has a new article on creating ASP.NET Server controls - http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/building/webcontrols/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/servercontrols.asp...

Has this been here for a while? MSDN TV now has it's own RSS feed , for those who like watching the smart tube. TTFN - Kent

Old news for some (in this day & age where something being released two days ago counts as old news), but version 0.4 of Thunderbird (the Mozilla e-mail program) has just been released. For those of you who don't know it, an excellent, small (about...

From the sounds of things, the St. Louis roadshow went pretty well , even with a slight riot: I imagined everyone would wait in line and grab their copy - BUT IT WAS NOTHING LIKE THAT! Devin Rader and myself got shoved up against the wall and couldn...

As I strive towards “Enabling people to do new things“ , here's my weekend gift to all of you: the second part in Scott Mitchell's skmMenu control articles . In this article, he examines the skmMenu control (Which, if you don't know is a ASP...

Paul Sheriff returns (and brings along Michael Krasowski) with a great article on working with VSS and ASP.NET projects. As well, Dino has a few thoughts on data access . Oh, and there's a great MSDN TV show featuring Erik Olson on everyone's favourite...

Tog on Security D'ohLTs: http://www.asktog.com/columns/058SecurityD'ohlts.html Brian care to discuss? ;) TTFN - Kent