It looks like the Microsoft Virtual Labs for Visual Studio 2005 are live. This is a great way to try out the new bits without downloading gigs of beta code and destabilizing your development box. Go check it out. more »

Late last week, I posted about being able to bind to an enumeration, and expressed my doubt of it's usefulness in most situations. Well, I was Haacked! Phil posted a followup of how it could be done. Remember, my doubts were because of situations where… more »

Steve M. over on Brain.Save() has a nice little post about JSON, which stands for JavaScript Object Notation. I've heard the term JSON, but never realized what it was or how it can be used. Most of the time it's used in conjunction with AJAX, which makes… more »

I was listening to Daily Source Code #241 and Adam talked about Jon Udell's interview with Bill Gates, and he was questioning what BillG was talking about when he mentioned two-way RSS. Adam asked what that meant. I don't claim to know, but it did get me… more »

There's an older post from Erik Porter about how he formats labels in ASP.NET. It's a pretty smart trick - he suggests that you use string placeholders for?labels, such as: <asp:Literal id="MyLiteral" runat="server">Name: {0} {1}</asp:Literal&g… more »

My trip to California was eventually a successful one. I say eventually because we pounded our heads against a wall for quite a while working through the Biztalk framework to get what we wanted. Every problem we ran into, we would find a solution, usuall… more »

Last night, I posted about how we did user control interaction on my last project, prompted by Erik's post. Well, today, I found the magazine at work and read through the article. Guess what? I was right on in what I was doing - although, the article re… more »

I've been working on this for a while, but I was prodded to finish it after seeing Erik's post about the same subject. With my last project, one of the things we did early on was come up with a large set of reusable controls that could easily be used acr… more »

Nope. I haven't gone religious on you (yet)! But Brian posted today about the launch of Zondervan Bible Search, which is a very cool application that I had a small part in. It's a pretty simple yet elegant site at first: It's cool because of the tec… more »

Scott Guthrie has a series of greats post about Web Projects in VS 2005, including a lot of details about how much better it is than VS 2003 offers. I'd expand more on it, but Scott does an awesome job by himself, so just go read them for yourself. These… more »