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Krishna has a good post on the basics of VS database projects, over on the VS Data Team blog.

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.

A new February CTP version of Visual Studio 2005 Professional can be downloaded by MSDN subscribers.

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.

My new article on New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005 has gone live on MSDN.

The March meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group  meeting will be held on March 2, 2005:

In response to the Richard Grimes "controversy", there have been several good responses.  I think I like the response by Paul Kimmel the best.  That is probably because he focusses more on the future, than on the past and present.

Microsoft announced today the line of versions for SQL Server 2005.  Included in this lineup is a new Workgroup Edition, in addition to the Standard, Enterprise, and Express (MSDE) editions.