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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...

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.

Jen and Jeremy (and Jim) return with the latest Support Voice column. (no, it's not a requirement that all people in PSS have names starting with a 'J'). This month, Jeremy looks at tools to help you Troubleshoot ASP.NET. I'll definitely second the recommendation...

I'm not usually known for "pro patria mortis" feelings, but thank a veteran today. IN FLANDERS FIELDS In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce...

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.

Billie Jo over on "the TechNet side" has a great posting on Technet's Script Center that I have to be ashamed to admit was unknown to me up until a few weeks ago. The Script Center Repository is my personal favorite. (<-oh, look, I spelled it 'merican...

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.

Wednesday started out fairly normal -- look through all my "ContactUS", "VS2005 You wanted to know" and other support-related emails. One was from one of my Product Managers , though. In one sense, that means higher priority (he knows how to find my office...

If you haven't read Fritz Onion 's Essential ASP.NET yet, go get a copy in your favourite language (as long as your favourite language is C# or VB.NET). It will give you something to do while you wait for Fritz's upcoming webcast series starting November...

Scott Guthrie has an amazing look into the 'end game' of how software gets released from Microsoft. It also has the cleanest explanation of "tell" and "ask" mode I've ever read (never had the guts to ask anyone).

First Duncan made sure that LiveBookmarks work in Firefox 1.0 , and now Lowell has fixed the appearance of code in Library articles. That solution Lowell came up with was a rather interesting dive into browser differences that still exist (maybe not a...

Two articles for you today: Still making money off of ASP.NET 1.1? Take a look at Callum Shillan's Dynamic Creation of Validation Controls for those times when you just don't know what you'll need to do to validate Looking forward to making more money...

One set of questions we get a lot are around the plans behind Visual Studio 2005. It's often difficult for people to find the information from those who know . We've now (hopefully) made it easier for you to find out with a new page highlighting the Developer...

... I just needed a rant space. I've just spent 10-20 minutes trying to track down a bug in some code in a Windows Service I was writing, "Cannot close stream until all bytes are written." Get stream length. Yup, right size Get ContentLength property...

The most recent ASP.NET Support Voice is live. This month, Mike Clay from Product Support answers common security issues around ASP.NET accessing resources. In short: "It is very common for developers to remotely access file shares, Web services, databases...

No, of course this isn't a discussion of the wildlife in Whidbey . Instead, this is about O'Reilly's incredibly excellent Safari Bookshelf. If you're not familiar with Safari, it's a site you can get access to the full text of books from over 2000 books...

Google Desktop launched (OK, Beta). " Use Google Desktop Search to find: Web pages you've previously seen in Internet Explorer Email you've sent or received via Outlook or Outlook Express IM chats you've had using AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Files in...

Shawn and Matt posting about some of the many jobs available at MSDN, in case you know of anyone interested. Also hidden (mostly) in Matt's posting -- the Mighty D is moving from "Content Strategy" to fulltime dev again. He'll be building the infrastructure...

We've launched a new section on MSDN today - " How to Buy ". Possibly not a major need for all of you, but I think it's a great improvement over the previous random pages people had to meander over, credit card in hand, desperately trying to find a link...

Dino is back, and he brought presents. The DetailsView control is one of the most intriguing ones (for me) in ASP.NET 2.0. However, why wait until ASP.NET 2.0 ships? In this article , Dino creates a DetailsView control that works with ASP.NET 1.1 code...

The scene: Cafe 36 Dramatis personae: D , B and K I can't remember how the discussion turned to the greatest mind that ever came out of the Southwestern US desert, but it was D that began the rant, "You know how the coyote would strap on rocket skates...

Stephen Walther continues his survey of ASP.NET 2.0 with a look at working with the Web Part Framework

Dino pointed this out to me this morning. I'll let you decide if you want to click the link , but I'll give you this line to tempt you. <%@ page language="Asm80386" %>

Stephen Walther continues his exploration of ASP.NET 2.0 with a look at Themes and Skins , two of the cooler features upcoming. Makes me wish I had designer abilities beyond drawing crooked lines...

We have become aware of a vulnerability in ASP.NET (all versions) that could allow a Web site visitor to access secured content by using a specially crafted request to the server. Note that this does not affect IIS, only ASP.NET. See this page or this...