A little about who is providing this information....

  To start with (after all, it's tatooed all over this blog), my name is Danny Chen.  You might have also guessed that I work for Microsoft.  Specifically, I work in the Web Platform and Tools team as a SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test).  My job is to test and provide QA for some of the features that are going into ASP.NET 2.0.  The features I'm responsible for right now are:  SiteMapPath, Menu, TreeView, ImageMap, and compilationMode="Never" flag.  But all testers are collectively responsible for ensuring that the quality of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 is as good as we can possibly make it so I (like many of my colleagues) tend to be involved in a lot more than just my features.

  I'm pretty excited about my features specifically because they are new to ASP.NET 2.0 and they are a result of customer need.  I think we did a great job at implementing them so that out-of-the-box they should be able to do the job for most of our customers.  Yet for those who want extra control, they are easily extensible. 

  And that's where this blog becomes important.  Even knowing the intimate details of my features, I still find some things confusing, difficult, or not obvious.  So, when I figure them out, I'll write about them.  Hopefully, one of you won't have to spend the time I did figuring out the solution or it inspires a new way to use our tools.  With a little luck, look for new posts about once per week, I think that'll be a fair target for me.  Well looks like I blew this part so far, good thing the RSS syndication works.