I've been doing some research on my next ADO.NET v2 book project so I've been reading several different ADO.NET v1 books trying to get a feel for what they did well, not so well, etc. I've read up a lot of reviews on these books which has helped me ge t feel for which ones did well. But

<P class=MsoNormal style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”>At today’s Tech-Ed keynote address in Orlando, Microsoft Vice President Paul Flessner announcedthat Visual Studio.NET 2005 will “launch internationally the week of November 7th”. He also stated that SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 will be launche

If you want to get a head start on ASP.NET 2, check out the ASP.NET 2 QuickStarts Tutorial [http://beta.asp.net/QUICKSTART/aspnet/default.aspx]. It’s all beta, so of course treat it as such. I’ve played with a few of them and there is some decent stuff out there already. Code samples are avaialble i

The Finalizer was revealed today at Tech Ed. You can check out this BattleBot that runs on .NET code at the new web site [http://www.finalizer.net/]. New content is still being added including videos and an official case study. <IMG src="/photos/jpapa/images/64206/original.aspx" border

One of the pleasures of working with Beta products is just when your code is working, you find out a method is renamed, its overloads have changed or sometimes its just plain gone. Its part of the sport of development. Being the geek that I am, I actually enjoy running into this once in a while in B