Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

MS just finalized everything for the BOF Sessions at PDC. This year, I'm running 2 marathon back-to-back sessions. We'll start off Monday evening with a conversation about how to start building ASP.NET 2.0 features into ASP.NET 1.X Server Controls, and right after that we'll talk about everything blogs that is developer-related. Here are the official write-ups:

... the relief I feel now, having FINALLY fixed the MSDTC issue that has been plaguing me for OVER A WEEK now. FINALLY everything is in place for me to launch my products, and God forbid, make some money.

A few months back I blogged about the problems I had with the System.IO.StringWriter when dealing with XML. This whole dealing with XML things is not very intuitive IMO. There are way too many steps involved in making it work. My other problem with it is kind of complicated to explain, so I will try my best.

TotalIdea seems to have taken their TweakXP tool for Windows Server 2003 offline. It's actually like it doesn't even exist anymore. Their new website (www.totalidea.com) doesn't even mention it. I stumbled across a Polish Microsoft site that still has it. This is the only place you can currently get it, so make sure you grab it while you can.

Someone stuck some DHTML transition code in their post, and it's screwing with the way the site is displaying. Can whoever did it please take it out? It's kinda distracting. That would be really cool. Thanks :)

Robert just posted the list of nearly every blog that he follows. Over 500 people just got a serious hit of Google juice. Interesting.

I got my MSDN discs today. I'm so excited, but I was kinda disappointed cause i figued they put the binders together for you. Then I thought “well, that doesn't make sense now does it?” BTW, these binders are freakin awesome. So I figured, it's a pretty quiet weekend (the calm before the storm of PDC) So I'll throw this out to you guys for some feedback:

Brian was having trouble getting his new Bluetooth keyboard working on Windows Server 2003. I recently ordered the Microsoft Optical Keyboard/Mouse for Bluetooth. The problem is, the Platform SDK says that Windows 2003 supports Bluetooth...