The divine and datagridesque Marcie lets us all know that: I ran across The .NET Book Club today, which is apparently run by Jeff Julian . http://weblogs.asp.net/datagridgirl/archive/2004/03/30/104174.aspx Looks like Jeff has kicked...

The brownies (aka, Christine, my Site Manager) have taken a look at the feedback you all (the three of you) have sent in. The end result is the new ASP.NET Developer Center home page. Obviously still a work in progress, but open for business, and looking...

For the two of you that care, I went off to the appropriately spelled , but incorrectly named nearby National Park . Read the first five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the first fiction I've read in well over a year). Did a lot of walking...

Before the new Dawn of the Dead , before the Day of the Dead , before the old Dawn of the Dead , there was the Night of the Living Dead . Now available for download! Legally! Free! Creative Commons license: Public Domain http://www.archive.org/movies...

Old news (he/she/it already has 4 posts), but if you have Visual Studio Extensibility questions, ask the Doctor ... TTFN - Kent

AaronM posts: http://weblogs.asp.net/aaronmar/archive/2004/03/23/94907.aspx VSIP EXTRAS IS RELEASED In addition, we've also launched a new section on MSDN devoted to Visual Studio extensibility called the “Visual Studio Extensibility Center”...

Henry informed me that a couple of wild beasts are on the rampage. What's that? No wild beasts? Only ASP.NET articles? OK. Sorry, Henry informs me that a couple of ASP.NET articles were published today on the ASP.NET Developer Center . Scott...

An idle thought on a Friday afternoon while I wait for SpaceMonger to tell me the worst culprits for bulking out my HDD. What if there were a service running that archives files & folders you don't use frequently to “something” (ZIP format...

Blog Survey: Expectations of Privacy and Accountability © Fernanda Viégas, 2004 http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/survey/blog/results.htm TTFN - Kent

Others have blogged about it in the past, but Google's Local Search is out of the labs. And it's so cool! Now, you can search for important nearby items , and find them. Hopefully it will lose the 'Beta' soon (although Google's News site still has...

Scott Mitchell returns to the ASP.NET Developer Center (has it really been seven days since his last article ?) with a great article on URL Rewriting - creating an engine that will help you create simple, clean URLs, complete with PostBack . Oh, and...

Mike Ellison has written a neat ASP.NET Query Control . Seems like it could be a quick way to crank out query forms. <aq:Query runat= "server" connection= "SqlCon" requeryOnPostback= "false" queryType= "Text" enabled= "true" > <sql>...

<babble worth=“debatable“> While reading an interesting report on various 'Developer Center' web sites, I came up with a thought (it's rare, so I decided to write): Up to now, when we post an article, I've been keeping the mention...

Had my first Apple Store experience on Friday. Ms. Simon's iBook was having issues [1], so we took it in. Our genius, Rob, didn't even make a snide reference to the assorted logowear I had on. Not a flicker from the, “No, we don't have AppleCare...

Laura (and Ethan) are looking for a tester at MSDN. People who remember/care what I write know for my love of and respect for testers at the mothership , so I think of this as a great opportunity for someone. However, Laura has, uhm, let's just say used...

via Adam Gallant Hey! Where's Winnipeg: AM Sessions: Session 1: Essentials of Application Security Session 2: Writing Secure Code I PM Sessions: Session 1: ASP.NET: Designing and Developing a Line-of-Business Web Session 2: ASP.NET: Best...

When Andy gives you a tip on creating ASP.NET controls, you should listen. He's one of the masters . Here he shows how to create a composite control that delegates it's properties to the embedded controls. (Hopefully part one of a series) TTFN ...

The second half of Scott Mitchell 's Building Templated ASP.NET Server Controls has gone live, so those who tuned into this cliff hanger can now read it. In “ Building DataBound Templated Custom ASP.NET Server Controls “, Scott adds the capability...

<rant> “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 1:9 Probably the one and only time you may see a...

If you listen carefully, you may hear old Hank Snow songs coming out of his iPod. Seven more dates have been added to the ASP.NET Roadshow (sorry, all in the US). So, if you missed the show on the first sweep through the country, you should try to...

A whole whack of articles from Brian Randell on working with MSDE in your Web applications has just gone live. Using MSDE 2000 in a Web Application And every possible combination and permutation of: Visual Basic .NET and C# Visual Studio...

Duncan , Eric et al have created a FAQ blog for C# . No doubt Visual Basic is just around the corner. Should ASP.NET follow? Visual Studio? Let me know what you think/want... TTFN - Kent

Anyone using the ASP to ASP.NET and/or the PHP to ASP.NET Migration Assistants ? How much code did it bring across for you? What didn't it bring across? TTFN - Kent

Marcie lets folk know how to get around the 'Unable to Start Debugging' error: http://weblogs.asp.net/datagridgirl/archive/2004/03/04/83827.aspx On a related note, every once & a while, I hear about the requests coming in from PSS (Product Support...

At last, I can let everyone know what I've been soooooo excited about for the last few weeks -- Rob Howard has returned to MSDN : Provider Model Design Pattern and Specification, Part 1 Rob explains why he's been absent for a while (something...