Hello, I'm   Jason

It looks like Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now available on the MSDN web site. According to the site, it was posted just 10 minutes ago. I’ve begun the download of the 3GB files and hopefully they’ll be ready for install sometime tomorrow. Feel free to wait until my copy is downloaded before you begin downloading yours. :-)

It’s not too often we have local companies that are fined for illegal software, but when we do, it makes the paper. Pride Mobility out of Exeter, PA was fined for having unlicensed software on their PCs. To read the full story, visit http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18537075&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6.

Google purchased Postini on July 9, 2007: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2156182,00.asp?kc=EWKNLEDP071007A

Usually, I wouldn’t post non-dev related stuff here. But, since I haven’t blogged in awhile (sorry, Twitter has seemed more convenient at the moment), I figured I’d post this. Apparently, Sprint Nextel has dumped 1000 customers because they’ve complained too much. Great service huh?

I was reading Somasegar’s blog earlier trying to get caught up on what’s going on out there. I came across an interesting post from yesterday where he talks about how Microsoft uses TFS. According to the blog, over 600 projects are currently scattered across 21 TFS server instances. In addition, over 100 million files are under source control.

If you’ve never used the RSS toolkit to generate and/or consume RSS feeds, then you’re missing out. It’s a very easy way to generate sound feeds and contains a datasource control to bind grids, etc directly to RSS. Some of the enhancements that I have made in the 1.0 version are now in 2.0. Hopefully I’ll get some time later this summer to help out on the project!

I came across this really cool demonstration and article by Simon Pang earlier today. I asked around awhile ago for a solution where I could create a PDF on the fly using SQL Reporting Services. Cool enough, he came up with a solution. Check out his article on the Code Project at http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ssrs_pdf.asp.

For the full PR wire, visit http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070618/aqm723.html.

Soma announced a couple of days ago that the new Scrum project is available for download on MSDN. eScrum is a web interface that displays project updates on a daily basis and integrates with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel.

The next .NET Valley Live! event will be on June 27th, 2007 in Scranton, PA. More details including event registration can be found at http://dotnetvalley.com/events/eventdetails.aspx?eventid=21.