Congratulations to Geoff [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/geoff.appleby] for getting his MVP award today. I also owe a great big thanks to those who nominated me and a thanks to the MVP team for awarding me with the MVP award. I was notified earlier today that I am now an MVP for Visual Developer - V

I had a good time at the Tech Valley .NET User's Group [http://www.tvug.net/] meeting last night. I presented some slides and code examples showing the new features of ADO.NET 2 as well as a demo of System.Transactions. It was a small but knowledgable group of people and I enjoyed meeting with

Wow. Several days of anguish is finally paying off. My colleagues and I have been trying to implement a SSRS 2000  with a web site using Forms Authentication and it is not as easy as you might think. It certainly hasn't been for us. Microsoft's own documentation is built upon Windows Integra

TheMarch 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/03/default.aspx]is now posted online. My latest Data Points [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/03/DataPoints/] column answers a few questions I have received from readers reagarding how the XQuery works with

Ever wanted to designate a style sheet via DHTML? Well, I hadn't needed to until recently. I have an application that reads an XML data island which tells the page the file name of the style sheet to use. (It could be any file of a hundred files, so I don;t want to load alternate style sheets in