Just released on MSDN! http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/entlib.asp The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of Application Blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application...

Thanks to some great footwork by our PhillyDotNet User Group leader Bill Wolff and member/volunteer Mike Cullina, we've selected our site to be the Community College of Philadelphia at their Center for Business and Industry, at 1751 Callowhill Street...

Just got this info from Scott Woodgate ... Get it here . I strongly recommend that everybody trys this in your test environments and then puts it into production. Along with the usual bug fixes provided in service packs you can expect up to a 10% performance...

Check out the patterns on gotdotnet that Scott Woodgate outlined on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/archive/2005/01/10/350346.aspx

14 BizTalk Hands-on Labs are now publicly available in the full-featured MSDN Virtual Lab at: http://msdn.demoservers.com/login.aspx?group=biztalk It's simple to access, and there is no complex setup or installation required to try out Biztalk Server...

This is going to be a kickin' meeting. The first session will be about code generation tools, presented by Mitch Ruebush, .NET Architect at ING Direct and a Microsoft RD. The second session is about distributed object-oriented applicatons, presented by...

Last week we had our second hands-on lab in the Microsoft Malvern office, with 65 attendees. In this lab we reviewed new features in Visual Studio 2005's IDE, generics, partial classes, and other CLR and language changes. The lab was well received, but...

Read about Microsoft's acquisition of GIANT, and what we're doing in this field in the press release . I've got this beta installed on my laptops as well as my Windows XP Media Center Edition box at home. I'm interested in seeing how we're going to compare...

If you're interested in Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 , we've got some cool stuff this month! January 11 (Tuesday) is a pretty busy day. If you're close to Harrisburg that afternoon, there's an MSDN event with three sessions - WinForms, ASP.NET,...