The amount of good content in the Microsoft WebCasts is quite amazing. The conferences such as VSlive, Tech Ed, Code Camps and Dev Connections are great too. Of course there are the occasional duds, but overall there is a lot of good content in there. For me, what sets apart a good presentation is n

If you are going to be in the Albany, NY area on Tuesday, Nov 8th, stop by at 6:30pm at the Tech Valley .NET User Group [http://www.tvug.net/] meeting. I'll be presenting and demonstrating the enhancements to ADO.NET 2 [http://www.tvug.net/site/294/default.aspx] using the latest release candidat

I went out to grab the VS.NET 2005 Release Candidate [http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/] and the SQL Server 2005 September CTP [http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/ctp.mspx] a few days ago from the MSDN subscriber site [https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions]. The download took a lo

This week I have been spending some free time in the reviewing the VS.NET 2005 Release Candidate. There are some nice features in the product that I am really excited about such as the new data designers and the TableAdapter in ADO.NET 2. Of course the oft discussed generics are pretty awesome, too.

Scott Densmore [http://blogs.msdn.com/scottdensmore/archive/2005/08/01/446190.aspx] discusses some of the new features in the upcoming release of Enterprise Library 2.0 and how they are trying to get it inline with Whidbey. He also blogs here [http://blogs.msdn.com/scottdensmore/archive/2005/08/16/4