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

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

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

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

We're all celebrating the recent advancements in .NET and other technologies like LINQ, XML in SQL Server and the fascinating tools like CodeRush [http://www.devexpress.com]and ReSharper [http://www.jetbrains.com]. But it struck me this week that we haven;t gone far enough in some areas ... like