With over 40 Webcasts on: why it matters to the business, common strategies and methods, and guidance on specific implementation scenarios between the major platform players, this is going to be quite a comprehensive series. You can pre-register for the Webcast series at http://www.interopmonth.com/...

Don Box , Doug Purdy , Richard Turner and Eric Schmidt discuss the benefits of connected systems . So if you are unaware of what Microsoft means by a connected system, here is a few resourses on the web that you might find useful: A Guide to Developing and Running Connected Systems with Indigo Service...

Server Performance Advisor can be found here . It was released a few days ago. <Extract> Overview Service Performance Advisor is a server performance diagnostic tool developed to diagnose root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 operating system...

FXCop is code analysis tool that checks managed code assemblies for conformance to Microsoft's .NET Framework design guidelines . It allows you to customise the rules that are applied, so that you can add you own best practices and verify that you code always has the same quality throughout. It been...

I often get asked, what is the design guidlines for class library developers, so here it is . Happy reading Don't forget that FxCop , is a free tool that Microsoft provides that will automate the analysis of your code.

It case you missed it on the first read, there is some short yet very powerful paragraphs on Prescriptive Guidance for Web Services, Enterprise Services, and .NET Remoting

Whether you are a sound engineer or software engineer, before the big event, you have to go on stage in front of a select few (the diehard fans/users/tester) and make sure that all of your hard work behind the scenes actually works and does what its supposed to, before going live in front of a full audience...

I know others have blogged about this (including dbox , ricom , jasonz ) and its been out for a few weeks now, but hey it is a must read. It's over 1100 pages of good stuff for everyone, topics covered include, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML Web Services, Enterprise Services and lots more, Improving .NET Application...

This is a great little tool that has been in beta for a long time :). I haven’t seen its release been discussed in any blogs (or at least the ones that I read). It covers a lot of the low hanging fruit, those small little things that can creep into a DB by accident and can go unnoticed for a while. e...