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As Scott Guthrie already detailed in his blog, the ASP.NET team has released a new add-in for VS.NET to make deploying web apps much easier. One of the coolest features in my opinion is the fact that you can replace sections of the web.config from debugging to release. So, I can modify my debug build options to replace the ConnectionStrings section of the web.config. The release build options can replace the same section with a “release-version” of the section. This makes testing and deploying much easier as now you don’t have to worry about forgetting if the web.config needs to be changed for testing, staging, or production. Great job guys!

Be sure to check out Mike Murphy’s IT Heros Podcast for the latest information about IT heros in the industry.

For more information, check out the official announcement at: http://www.techbash.com/News_View.aspx?Articleid=15

You can also find more general information about TECHbash by visiting www.techbash.com. Be sure to sign-up for this event as there will be limited seating available!

.NET Valley is proud to announce its first ever TECHbash to occur on November 30th at Luzerne County Community College. This TECHbash will be Northeastern Pennsylvania’s official Visual Studio .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch event. Everyone in attendance will receive free software and other swag related to the event. The event will kick off at 4:30pm. More details will be posted on the www.TECHbash.com website at a later date.

Space is limited so be sure to sign-up today!

One of my friends sent me off a job posting that they have in Chicago and asked if I knew of anyone for the position. I figured I’d post it here since I can’t think of anyone in that area:

Sr. Interaction Designer - Mobile Devices (Engineering/Architecture)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Relocation Available
Salary Range: 80K - 90K plus 10% bonus

Reply here to let me know if your interested and I’ll send you their contact details.

It’s now official! As announced by Soma earlier today, Visual Studio 2005, .NET 2.0, and SQL Server 2005 have been released. VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 have been sent off to manufacturing. If you have an MSDN Universal or the new Visual Studio Team Server Editions, you can download them from the MSDN Subscriber website now (although it will take awhile - as you may expect). The framework redistributables and SDK are available for download on the Microsoft website.

Congratulations to all of the related teams at Microsoft for getting this out there!

MSN is now joining Yahoo! and Google in announcing that their search tool will be able to soon search published book content. MSN joined the Open Content Alliance yesterday announcing that they will “bring millions of publicly available print materials worldwide to the Web.” For more information, visit the official announcement here.

The next .NET Valley meeting will be tonight at LCCC in Nanticoke, PA. For more information about the event and for a link to sign-up for the event, visit www.DotNetValley.com

In this podcast, Wally continues on with his rants about Atlas. You can download this podcast by visiting http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2005/10/21/428126.aspx.

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This event will be held at Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke on October 26th, 2005. For directions to the facility and for room information, click here. The event will begin at 6:00pm. Here is the schedule:

6:00pm Open Forum