Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

The October 2004 Community Technical Preview (CTP) releases are now available for download. These downloads contain a more recent version of the Express Editions than the Beta, however, CTP builds do not go through the same rigourous testing that Beta builds undergo. Therefore, do not install these builds on machines you depend on.

Last Tuesday I posted about a potential vulnerability in ASP.NET along with some code to plug the hole. Two days later, a Microsoft Installer package was released which contains the ValidatePath HttpModule. This is a more thorough, easier-to-manage, and easier-to-deploy solution for the canonicalization issue.

In checking out Scott Howlett's weblog I found the answer to my #1 complaint in XP. I swear, those little balloons are the new Clippy. Linked here so I can find it even from workstations I don't use the Google Desktop.

Google Desktop is the new killer application. It's the best thing thing since Google.

I'll be participating in an MSDN DevChat today at 1:00pm EST. The topic is SPS Developer Considerations:

The vulnerability is described on Microsoft's security site, in response to an earlier post on NTBugTraq. The security site will be the "home page" for the vulnerability and will be updated as more information becomes available. Note that source code is not at risk. I will post more information about what scenarios do pose a risk once I'm confident the issue is fully understood. For now, protect your site.

For those of you in the GTA, I'll be presenting Wednesday night on SharePoint Customization. After an introduction to Windows SharePoint Services (which is built into Windows Server 2003) and SharePoint Portal Server, I'll be walking through the mechanics of building reusable custom templates and sites. Hope to see you there!

CodeSmith is one of the best apps to happen to development and it's been updated to version 2.6. The update mainly contains improvments to CodeSmith Studio (a VS-style IDE for developing templates); for those of you (us?) who rely mainly on the free CodeSmith Explorer it contains a number of minor fixes to make it a worthwhile install.