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While I wouldn't normally post job openings for "just anyone", Scott certainly isn't just anyone. He's the Software Architect for one of the first companies I had the pleasure of working with when .NET was still in the glimpse stage, as well as one of...

I didn't mention it a while back, but I recently changed Site Managers (from Christina to Chris -- we're not that imaginative when it comes to names around MSDN). Now, Chris brings our first communal effort to bear (OK, he did it all, but I'll share some...

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...

And then there were 50... OK, maybe there aren't 50 Developer Centers (yet — it just feels that way some days), but there is now an Internet Explorer Dev Center. With new content, even! Learn what SP2 and future advances have in store for you. It's worth...

If you don't recognize the name AnandTech , you're not a true "hardware geek". Anandtech is jam-packed full of übergeeks who live and breathe perf for their systems. They're overclocking, water-cooling, machine-modding sources of deep wisdom into these...

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...

The Microsoft ASP.NET v1.1 Membership Management Component Prototype contains classes that allow a developer to more easily authenticate users, authorize users, and store per-user property data in a user profile. The authentication feature validates and...

... no new (non-ASP.NET 2.0) articles. That's changed — Scott 's back, with Working with Client-Side Script

While it's not January yet, MSDN magazine has posted one of their upcoming articles from the January issue -- Rob Howard 's 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications . Definitely worth a read. Unless you like slow web apps.

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...

In order to ship, sometimes, some features have to go back on the shelf to age a little. Shanku provides some details on some Beta 1 features in ASP.NET that won't be in Beta 2 (or launch). DynamicImage, we hardly knew you... TTFN - Kent

This one actually went out on Friday, but I forgot to post about it: Stephen Walther : Storing User Information with ASP.NET 2.0 Profiles

You may recall a while back when some changes got announced around possible changes to the special directories for ASP.NET 2.0. Many, many people wrote in to comment on those changes. So, I'm now pleased to point to Brian Goldfarb's posting , and a page...

I was lazy today, and decided not to walk in during a beautiful sunny Redmond day, instead allowing the decongestants to soak through my head. However, I had one conference call I wanted to attend on upcoming changes to some site . While I was listening...

I'm covering my head. However, I know that expression is a bit hackney, but for us sad folk at MSDN, it seems like it has value. OK, maybe for just me, but it's seeming like our new hammer, RSS is becoming more and more of an important concern in our...

Stephen Walther continues his survey of ASP.NET 2.0 features with a look at the new ObjectDataSource control . I have to admit that as a "middle-tier guy", I love this control.

A number of Microsoft Regional Directors , Wintellect folk and INETA speakers have put themselves up on the auction block to help the victims of the tsunami in South East Asia. Get an hour of Jeff Richter , Joel Semeniuk , Scott Hanselman or many more...

Well, I *think* yesterday was an official MSFT holiday (I wasn't here, anyway), so today was really the first day of the new year for new headlines and articles. So, we start the year with an article by someone named "Kent Sharkey". He's a (relatively...

As many of you know, I'm often looking around at how "others" write their code. As such, this site is a candy store . OpenSourceCMS gathers together a large number of CMS-ish apps (classic CMS, Wikis, Blogs, Forums and more) into one testable site. The...

Bill Evjen has a great list of resources to help developers get up to speed on ASP.NET. Even worth it for veterans as well, as there is bound to be something on there that will make you say, "Wow, I didn't know about that." Well worth bookmarking as he...

Where's Rob been? Busy starting a company and building a Community Server . However, he still cares about all of you enough to keep writing his column - read his latest, " Use Cache, Save Cash " about SQL cache invalidation in ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is going to have an effect on many applications, it's best to be prepared before something happens. Read How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2 before bad stuff happens.™ TTFN - Kent

Rob Howard makes it official . Today is/was his last day at Microsoft. We will all be sorry to see him go, but I know I look forward to keep working with him — he can't keep all that knowledge, energy and skill to himself. I wish him only the best...

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...

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...