This is add-on for VS 2005, offers the project model for web applications like we had for VS 2003 is available as a free download here . There is also another great bonus included in this package - Edit and Continue for web applications ! Here is the official description: The Visual Studio 2005 Web Application...

Yosi Taguri from MS Israel posts that the ASP.NET product team will be visiting Israel next month. There will be a public seminar on March 13th (see Yosi's post for the agenda). There will also be an opportunity for a few teams to work directly with the ASP.NET team on migration their existing 1.1 applications...

On December 12, we had official Israel VS 2005 launch event in Tel Aviv. It was a great, fun event, with over 1300 attendees ! I did 2 different presentations. The first was one of the main sessions for the general assembly, entitles ".NET 2.0 Things you must know about". I thought it would be interesting...

Do you want the opportunity to work with Brad McCabe ? Brad is a MSDN Content Strategist, responsible for the VB and Data Access Dev Centers (and probably some others). He is part of the team responsible for much of the content on MSDN. If you like writing and explaining technology the position of a...

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...

My interview with DevSource is now available online. This interview is rather extensive - Esther managed to get me going by asking me about 3 of my greatest passions: VB, Data Access, and Patterns & Practices. We also touched on some other topics as well.

I am finally getting a handle on the post-VSlive backlog... This year's VSLive San Francisco was another good event. There was the usual fun (and education) meeting old friends and colleagues. There was also meeting new faces to old acquiantences - such as Sam Gentile , whose blog I always read, but...

One of the nice little features in ASP.NET is that the HTTPRequest object has a Params property that I can access to get the values of the parameters of a request, without having to explicity know or specify whether those parameters are part of a QueryString, Form, Cookie, or Server Variable. However...

A nice new source of practical and advanced information on building Click Once deployments has been developed by Brian Noyes for the MS Patterns and Practices team. Here is the description blurb: Deploying client applications with ClickOnce requires a lot of procedural steps to accomplish and there are...

Well over a year ago, we began work on the UI portion of a major project of our for a client in New York. One of the issues we needed to address was an infrastructure or framework for the UI of this application. Since the framework was to encompass many different applications (or modules) that would...