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

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