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Deprecation in ADO.NET
On the topic of deprecation, I came across this post today from Plip:
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Changes in Sending Email in .NET 2.0
For a project we are currently developing in .NET 2.0 / Whidbey, I needed to send email via a local SMTP server. At the time, I was working with the December 2004 CTP for Visual Studio. When looking around for classes to send email, there seemed to be two different namespaces to deal with this:
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Iron Speed Designer .NET Challenge 2005
Efficens Software, the local Israeli representative of the ASP.NET framework and Code generator Iron Speed Designer, is running a contest for applications developed with that toolkit.
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Pricing and Licensing for Visual Studio 2005 and MSDN Subscriptions
This hot off the presses announcement lays out the new pricing (and upgrade) structure for the different versions of Visual Studio 2005, as well as for MSDN subscriptions.
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Version 2.0 of the Updater Application Block
Version 2.0 of the popular Updater Application Block has just been released. It has been enhanced and modified to work with other applications blocks in the Enterprise Library, which was released in January. The Updater block allows you to get much of the functionality of Whidney's Click-Once Deployment in your VS 2003 applications today. Check it out here and download it from here.
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Clarifying the Meaning of the End of Mainstream Support for VB6
Earlier this week, I pointed out that mainstream support for VB6 is ending at the end of this month. What exactly this means isn't necessarily all that clear :-) Fortunately, the new MSDN VB Strategist Brad McCabe has posted a very clear explanation. Brad is a great guy and is also very articulate - you can see this for yourself in his post on this topic.
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Database Projects in Visual Studio
Krishna has a good post on the basics of VS database projects, over on the VS Data Team blog.
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Overtime Pay or Bonuses and Stock Options ?
There is an interesting article in the New York Times today, describing the announcement by Electronic Arts, the world's largest independent video game maker, that they will begin to offer overtime pay to some employees. However, these employees will no longer be eligiable for bonuses or stock options.
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Visual Studio 2005 Professional and Express Editions - February CTP now available
A new February CTP version of Visual Studio 2005 Professional can be downloaded by MSDN subscribers.
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Mainstream Support for VB6 Ends This Month
If you are still developing and/or maintaining VB6 applications, you need to be aware of the fact that mainstream support for VB6 from Microsoft ends this month. Read about this and the post-mainstream options over here.
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New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005
My new article on New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005 has gone live on MSDN.