Part of the new launch (you may have heard about it from about 2000 blog postings starting about midnight Pacific time) is the new Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. This is the new, lightweight version of Visual Studio, tuned for Web development...

We have just released a glorious beast onto the world -- Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2005 is now live. In addition, if you look at that URL, you will see that we have also released a new Developer Center for it. This is our first steps at personalizing MSDN...

Stephen Walther provides the first two of many articles in the pipe on ASP.NET 2.0: Security changes in ASP.NET 2.0 - covering the login controls, and administration Caching changes in ASP.NET 2.0 - covering SQL caching and the (to me, crazy...

Did something yesterday I had hoped I would never need to do again — get some JavaScript to work in all available browsers. Why are we still having this issue? OK, in this case it was because the “ease of use” item I had been using from...

My manager, and man- about .NET Framework , Frank E. Redmond III has joined us all in blogdom . Welcome him, and get him to tell some tales of COM+ and SQL... (and my favourite, Executants and Emissaries) TTFN - Kent PS: I call him mythical as a...

I've just realized that the ASP.NET Developer Center has actually been open for business for a year now. (I had thought the anniversary was 6/26, but it's actually 6/12 ). So much for doing something special for the anniversary. Sorry about that. I had...

This just in... The presentation: Delivering Rich-Client Features with Thin-Client Delivery that was originally scheduled for Thursday, June 24, 2004 from 1:00PM-2:30PM will now be held on Friday July 16, 2004, at 11am. TTFN - Kent

Sorry I haven't been updating this as often as I should, I've been preternaturally busy [1]. I just posted author's pages for two of my favourite ASP.NET authors: Stephen Walther : author of far too many great ASP.NET books to list here. some...

Scott reminds me that MSDN magazine is also now available in downloadable CHM files . Just the thing for that commute read. Just not while you're driving, please. TTFN - Kent

Until the blog spam problem goes away, or I have time to play Whack-a-mole more, I'm disabling comments. Send them directly to me if you really must tell me something. TTFN - Kent

The ASP.NET 2.0 issue content from MSDN magazine is now online. Loads o' goodness. TTFN - Kent

While I enjoy spam (or “High volume e-mail deployers” as some call it [caution - big video, requires DivX]) as much as the next person, John (no blog) pointed out Mailinator to me today. It's a service that is essentially a one hour inbox...

Susan Warren , who shall ever remain the Marchioness of ASP.NET Server Controls in my mind, provides us with a glimpse at what she's been doing lately with a nice article on a Wrapper to help making Smart Documents for Office ... TTFN - Kent

This actually went live a few days ago, but I missed it. Scott Mitchell returns to the Mitchell, Scott Developer Network with Understanding ASP.NET View State . TTFN - Kent

If the Purple Pill doesn't do anything for your application restarts, try reading the latest Voice of Support column: Why is my ASP.NET application restarting? TTFN - Kent

It's been a while since I used Messenger Plus , but I re-installed it today. So much good and/or fun stuff for those of us that run MSN Messenger a lot to communicate with people. From automatically marking you as away if you lock your machine, through...

No, I'm no planning a vacation -- this is for those who are planning on upgrading to Whidbey (aka Visual Studio 2005, aka ASP.NET 2.0, etc.) Dino Esposito : Rearchitecting your Web applications for ASP.NET 2.0 TTFN - Kent

Forgot to mention in all the Java Resource Center updates, we also added a neat simulator for Visual Studio to the Visual Studio Developer Center . It walks you through the (should be) classic Three apps in 10 minutes scenario. Great to demo to people...

You may want to register it with the Microsoft Community Program . Fame & fortune await. TTFN - Kent

After much sweat (from John & I), cussing (from Dan , Brian and I), pleading (from Dan ), and something akin to effort (by all), the Java Resource Center is now live on MSDN. This is meant to be the place that those who like their development caffeinated...

I'll tell you more, once I get the time... TTFN - Kent

Neat link from the good folk @ Borland -- an experimental C# to Delphi Convertor , done as a Web Service (and ASP.NET page ). Had to try it, so I grabbed a little C# from the C# FAQ (I'm not on my dev box right now). End result: type Test =...

Bill Evjen somehow has become aware of (and shares with the world): Reuters RSS Feeds Released! Now I can get my fill of “ Oddly Enough ” all the time... TTFN - Kent

Probably way old news for most, but there is a Crystal Reports team blog . TTFN - Kent