New Features in Enterprise Library 3.0: Validation Block

Avoid the tedious and error-prone task of writing validation "plumbing" code by integrating the Validation Application Block into your .NET applications.
by Thiru Thangarathinam

10 mistakes to avoid in software development"

"Noting that projects can get in serious trouble or fail even when effective project management is in place, Forrester analysts said projects are doomed by mistakes made at inception, not during execution."

Windows as an application platform: Not sick, but not well either

from: TheServerSide.net
Posted by: Jack Vaughan on July 09, 2007

Visual Studio 2008 will come out in ... 2008!

At a partners event in Denver, Microsoft disclosed its plans for formally releasing Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. COO Kevin Turner said the company will launch all these products together at an event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008.

http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=46136&asrc=EM_NLN_1757377&uid=2444142

Notification Services in SQL Server 2005

A simple and easy to understand explantion of Notification Services in SQL Server 2005

WindowsForms for Silverlight?

Tim Heuer pointed Tim Sneath at an interesting set of controls that have been developed by an organization called NETiKA Technologies. They take a pretty broad set of Windows Forms controls and implemented them for Silverlight (and Flash).

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 June 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

.Net 3.5 is available for download.
Overview
.NET Framework 3.5 builds incrementally on the new features added in .NET Framework 3.0, for example, Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows CardSpace. In addition, .NET Framework 3.5 contains a number of new features in several technology areas. These new features have been added as new assemblies to avoid breaking changes. They include the following:
Deep integration of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and data awareness. This new feature will let you write code written in LINQ-enabled languages to filter, enumerate, and create projections of several types of SQL data, collections, XML, and DataSets by using the same syntax.
ASP.NET AJAX lets you create more efficient, more interactive, and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers.
New Web protocol support for building WCF services including AJAX, JSON, REST, POX, RSS, ATOM, and several new WS-* standards.
Full tooling support for WF, WCF, and WPF, including the new workflow-enabled services technology.
New classes in .NET Framework 3.5 base class library (BCL) address the most common customer requests.