One of the best things that Microsoft has started doing is producing Hands on Labs. Using the new search on Microsoft .com, you can easily find these from the downloads section . In fact, last week Microsoft released an Enterprise Library 2.0 Hands on Labs . I don't know how many times I've been asked...

Wow! I just realized how much material the ASP.NET team has posted on Atlas. There are videos demonstrating certain features of Atlas. There are blogs listing upcoming events, how-to's, and upcoming features. Then there are the forums wher users and the ASP.NET team collaborate about Atlas. If you haven...

It's been a little while since I've posted. Reason being, I've been hard at work building a few add-in modules for Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006. Yesterday, I needed to install SBA and BCM SP1 on the server and client machines. Little did I realize that because I was debugging my add-ins using...

As Scott Guthrie already detailed in his blog , the ASP.NET team has released a new add-in for VS.NET to make deploying web apps much easier. One of the coolest features in my opinion is the fact that you can replace sections of the web.config from debugging to release. So, I can modify my debug build...

.NET Valley Event Oct 26 - Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 SIGN-UP This event will be held at Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke on October 26th, 2005. For directions to the facility and for room information, click here . The event will begin at 6:00pm. Here is the schedule: 6:00pm...

Make sure that before you install a later version of Visual Studio 2005 no matter the edition that you completely remove all previous version components first. I had two installations and I got caught. I forgot to remove SQL Express and when I tried to reinstall .NET to then remove it, I received an...

Be sure to check out http://www.aspnetwebcasts.com/ and sign-up for ASP.NET webcasts. These presentations feature areas from the current version of .NET as well as version 2.0. The presenters are all very well known authors, developers, and community leaders. Plus, if you participate in at least 3 webcasts...

For those of you who have not yet heard, the Visual Studio 2005 betas are available for download at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/default.aspx . All of the dowloads found are Beta 1 products and do not include a go-live license. This means that they are approved for use in test environments...

Today I attended the MSDN Security Briefing in Bethlehem, PA (near Allentown). G. Andrew Duthie was the presenter. I must say, he did a fine job presenting the security topics at hand. Andrew covered some great security topics such as DPAPI, aspnet_setreg ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid...

One of the best things that Microsoft has started doing is producing Hands on Labs. Using the new search on Microsoft .com, you can easily find these from the downloads section . In fact, last week Microsoft released an Enterprise Library 2.0 Hands on Labs . I don't know how many times I've been asked...