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Ten things you might not know about ASP.NET 2.0

MS Employee Harish has put together a list of his past articles on ASP.NET 2.0.

Ten things you might not know about ASP.NET 2.0

I have only one comment, if you want to do Ajax for more than 1 control in your whole ASP.NET app, you are better off looking for a decent Ajax framework instead of using the inbuilt client callback function. It can be a real pain in the wrong place handcoding the whole client callback and handling data using just javascript. And then there is the multi-browser stuff too. Can become a mess very fast....

Distributed Logging

One of my free time project is a small library to handle distributed logging. I have created a codeplex project that has the version 1 of this library called DistriLog.

Written in VB 2005 and SQL Server 2005 compact edition for the local database. The central database is SQL Server 2005.

New Malware Center

MS has a new Malware center with information on the latest tests and links to the latest update files for Defender and Forefront.

The main thing I like is a single place to get all of the malware/virus information. But once you go one level down the whole thing dries up. You click on a virus/malware and you suddenly find there is not much information in the encyclopedia. In all entries I saw the Prevention tab just has a few general security recommendations like using a firewall etc.

Good start, but a long way to go though..

Certification Tips

Came across a set of tips on taking Microsoft certifications at SQL Server Central.

Though it is aimed at the SQL Server exams, most of the tips are really common to any of the certifications. Just replace SQL Server with <your product of choice> :)

Link to Article: Certification Rumors and Tips

The all new Vista

This Vista is not officially from Microsoft, but is from a related source though..:)

 

After Jon Blake Cusack 2.0 it is time to welcome Vista Avalon Simser. A fellow MVP has actually name his daughter Vista Avalon Simser and if it had been a son, we may have got a new version of DOS.

 

MS did trademark the name Vista (or rather I think Windows Vista), but I would guess that is only related to Software, so Bil Simser, I expect is safe from any trademark litigations..:)