Last week the Orcas Beta 1 was made available for download by Microsoft. It is madeup of 8 large RAR files and can be downlaoded from here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx Some of my excitement was tempered a bit when a bug was found that caused problems with the EDM Wizard.

I set up a new dedicated server at GoDaddy.com this weekend. One of the issues I struggled with was when I set up MailEnable [http://www.mailenable.com/download.asp] to run on the server I could not send mail. I could receive it just fine, but it would not go out anywhere. A friend of mine helped me

The Data Access Team published a great post [http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/03/08/using-stored-procedures-for-change-processing-in-the-ado-net-entity-framework.aspx] that has some superb explanations on how to make the Entity Framework use stored procedures for inserts, udpates and delet

I want to offifically welcome Brian Peek [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/brianpeek/default.aspx] as our newest colleague at CodeBetter.com. Brian is a .NET guru who brings a different flavor to our community. He has wowed me with some of the stuff he has created including the Finalizer [http://www.

Congratulations to 2 of the newest Microsoft MVP's: Brian Peek [http://codebetter.com/blogs/brianpeek/default.aspx] and Jonas Stawski [http://jstawski.com/] were both just awarded with the C# MVP award. Congratulations guys!