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In honour of March 2, we now present {insert ta da here} The February Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2005. This month, we have new versions of Visual Studio 2005 Professional (for MSDN Subscribers) and the fabulous Express products...

Words by Thomas Lewis. Music by Black Flag The Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft has announced a change pertaining to the naming of special directories used by ASP.NET 2.0. The following changes are being made to the special directories for ASP...

I was looking at an ad  on a slow night, and saw, "Adlib compatible". Brought back many memories of phrases gone by: Centronics port Five and a quarter Double-sided, double-density graphics accelerator XMS EMS ...

Does anyone find any value in newsgroups anymore? As an example, Microsoft.com has just released a set of Web services to access some of the data on ms.com. The Microsoft.com Web Service is an XML Web service that enables third parties, as well as Microsoft...

Christine and I have been trying to brainstorm new features for the ASP.NET Developer Center . So, I've decided to do two things: Ask all of you for new 'things' you'd like to see on the ASP.NET Developer Center (besides articles, that's assumed...

While it certainly hasn't been finalized, you can see a good overview of what features should be in each of the various editions of Visual Studio 2005 here . TTFN - Kent

They also serve up hot steamy breakfast. Here we see Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager, Shanku Niyogi, Group Program Manager, B. Ashok, Development Manager, and Dmitry Robsman, Development Manager at a recent event where they served breakfast to the...

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

Sorry for the delay. The ASP.NET Resource Kit is NOW AVAILABLE. Details at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/asprk/ . For those who downloaded it last week, don't bother, it hasn't changed. Spread the news far & wide! Let's see if you can break...

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...

It's Saturday night -- what do losers like Kent do? Poke around, trying to learn PHP. I just came across something that is probably old news -- PEAR (the PHP Extension and Application Repository). It's an application, a database, and more. 5 minutes after...

This study monitored people's eyes looking at various news sites to see hotspots, the effect of graphics, navigation and more. Small sample size, but some of the conclusions should be useful design fodder.

NetCraft has an amusing news item this week talking about how RSS aggregators cause traffic on sites to essentially pulse: Infoworld.com experiences a "massive surge of RSS newsreader activity at the top of every hour," according to Chad Dickerson...

Dino brings you his latest -- an excellent article discussing using inheritance to add features to common ASP.NET classes, like the Page class. He shows how you can add page refresh, long process handing and more to *all* your pages in one fell swoop...

I know I've promised to be good, and I've sucked the life out of any possible controversial topic off of this blog. So, to finish up the year, it's time to get myself in trouble again. The MSDN stats report came out for November, and I noticed a few tasty...

Probably somewhere, but not here, I'm just going to beg for feedback. Seeing as how Chris is asking for feedback , and it's been a while since I asked last , it's time for me to ask all of you what you think of the ASP.NET Developer Center , and how...

Woke up at 4am. Not on purpose, not even because of my body having revenge . I made the mistake of buying Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on Saturday, and my fingers still wanted more. Very fine game. After the usual e-mail, scanning weblogs.asp...

Wintellect has some of the smartest .NET people on the planet these days, and Jeff Prosise is definitely one of them. Thomas (yes, the Spider King) has sent me a set of training videos featuring Jeff Prosise, showing you the ins and outs (and betweens...

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...

As reported a while back. Please send in more feedback either here, or in the forums . The product team is listening! ASP.NET recently announced several changes to the naming of the special directories recognized by the runtime. The renamed directories...

May be old news, but did you know there was an Issue Tracker Starter Kit for ASP.NET 1.x? The Issue Tracker enables project teams to keep track of outstanding issues, assigned owners, history and related issues through a Web-based interface.

Web-based mail is hot. Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook Web Access... They're all making headlines and showing off the richness of the web. The Outlook Web Access team is looking for solid ASP.NET developers to help build our next version. We're looking for people...

Due to my ongoing incompetance and medication changes , I have been given the keys to the Visual Studio Developer Center . As such, it's time to ask you, my favoritest folks in the whole wide world, what IDE centric articles (as opposed to something language...

Announcement #1 out of TechEd for Visual Studio developers: The Visual Studio Team System . This is the new set of life-cycle tools soon to be on a desktop near you. These will include (depending on edition): PreFast and FxCop help developers detect...

Meeting done, only a few action items absorbed. Fortunately, people left the meeting early, so we could assign chunks to them. Cleaned up the Visual Studio Developer Center home page  -- actually re-created the existing one in a new content management...