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Scott Guthrie and the rest of the ASP.NET team have released a new add-in for Visual Studio 2005 called the Web Application Project Model. “The VS 2005 Web Application Project option provides an alternate web project model option to the VS 2005 Web Site …

One of the best things that Microsoft has started doing is producing Hands on Labs. Using the new search on Microsoft.com, you can easily find these from the downloads section. In fact, last week Microsoft released an Enterprise Library 2.0 Hands on Labs. …

The 2006 asp.netPRO Readers’ Choice Awards winners have been announced. You can find a full listing at www.aspnetpro.com.

I have confirmed with the philly.NET president, Bill Wolff, that I will be able to present on May 17th. My presentation will begin at roughly 7:00-7:30pm. The topic will be “Understanding Membership and Profiles in ASP.NET 2.0.” I’ve presented many similar …

One of the things that I really hate about technology is the fact that new technology is always coming out, but not soon enough. There is nothing better to say except that this really sucks! Perfect Example: We are in the process of building a process-oriented…

I was on the ASP.NET website earlier and saw the weekly poll asking visitors if they use unit tests in their ASP.NET applications. At the present time, over 40% of the visitors said ‘What are unit tests?’ In all but one of our applications, we are not …

What a great feature the OWA deleted items recovery console is for Exchange 2003. The fact that you can recover emails with just a click is awesome. The only issue that I see is that I think Administrators should allow or deny this access on a mailbox level. There are some users (such as basic users), who when terminated will just delete all of their email from the console as well thus forcing IT admin to restore email from backup if necessary.

I’m just catching up on some things today which is the reason for all the blogs. I came across an entry from one of the RSS feeds I subscribe to pointing me to a press release by Microsoft on April 19th. According to the press release, the Visual Studio Express editions (including Web Developer, SQL Express, etc), will be FREE forever! Furthermore, you can now develop applications to work with LEGOs. How cool is that? You can download the SDK for developing on LEGOs by clicking here.

Wow! I just realized how much material the ASP.NET team has posted on Atlas. There are videos demonstrating certain features of Atlas. There are blogs listing upcoming events, how-to’s, and upcoming features. Then there are the forums wher users and the ASP.NET team collaborate about Atlas. If you haven’t checked this stuff out yet, be sure to check it out soon. In addition, one of my good friends, Wally McClure (I guess I'll admit it), is soon releasing a book called ‘Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET.’ From what I hear, it should be pretty good.

Our old data center lost our .NET Valley database containing the list of email addresses that were part of our group. Unfortunately, they also had corrupt backup tapes as well. Since this issue, we switched data centers and I must say our new one is much, much better. However, we still do not have everyone’s email added to our list. If you are interested in being par of the .NET Valley User Group email list, be sure to sign-up by clicking here.