Visual Studio 2005 provides a variety of new features. One of those is to provide XML comments within Visual Basic. XML based comments allows developers to add structured documentation to the code. In order to use this feature within a code file you simply...

The Class Designer is a new visual tool in Visual Studio 2005 that is used to examine and manipulate the structure of classes and other types. The Class Designer provides a synchronized editing relationship between the visual palette and the applications...

One of my favorite things is to give away free stuff for great code! If you haven’t seen this competition - it looks incredible! Do You Dare? Show the world what a great developer you are and have the chance to win $50,000 USD and a trip to the...

Well after a couple of days out of town, I wanted to post some of the pictures from our recent Star Wars preview. Yes – when held at gunpoint I can make decisions quickly! Everybody should notice my friend and the local RD Patrick Hynds in the background...

Site maps are a visual way to show the layout of a Web site. Similar to an organization chart of an organization, it provides similar types of services for a Web application. It helps to break down the Web site content into increasingly specific subject...

There is still some room left for the private Star Wars showing this afternoon. Should be a great way to wind down the week. <Register for Private Movie Showing here> For today we will start the Pageant at 1PM with the movie starting...

Question: During the recent Beta 2 Events that I attended, you mentioned the Login Controls within ASP 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I took a look at them and don’t quite understand how they work. It seems that they can be hooked up but, I can’t figure...

Attend a Free Star Wars Preview and Celebration including the 1 st New England Costume Pageant Microsoft is sponsoring an exclusive free private showing of Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and you are invited! Space is limited so make sure you...

ASP 2.0 introduces a variety of new features and enhancements. One of these is Web parts. Although, the idea isn’t new, the direct inclusion within ASP.NET is an important enhancement. In this short video, I take a look at Web part within the ASP 2.0...

With two events down and two more to go the buzz around Visual Studio 2005 is getting bigger. For those that have attended the recent Beta 2 events being done by the New England Developer Team, I wanted to post the session material. When prompted...

ASP.NET has always been a great tool for writing data driven applications. The problem was often that the amount of code needed could be a bit overwhelming to do even simple things. The good news is that with Visual Studio 2005 this becomes surprisingly...

Master pages are one of my absolute favorite features of ASP 2.0. A master page is a template that is used to define the overall look and feel of an ASP.NET Web application. In previous versions of ASP.NET, this problem was somewhat solved by embedding...

I was talking with a local customer the other day that was in the process of designing their next generation enterprise architecture. Their current architecture was really a mix of applications and data silos spread across many different systems. As part...