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Good morning. It's in the 80's here again and glorious. I installed XP SP2 RC2, through the new Windows Update and it went without hitch. I have been running many betas of it through the months and this one nails it. Ship it!

• Michelle is got to be the hardest working woman in our business (besides Julie of course!). She just rocks! She has a ton of goodies lately:
• An article describing how to leverage Enterprise Services for a scalable Web application:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/community/authors/mlb/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnetscal.asp with a code update ASPNETScalability.zip
• A WSE 2.0 article for Code Magazine updated  here to reflect the release of WSE 2.0
• She completed a pre-taped webcast for SearchVB.com on the subject of WSE 2.0. This webcast was slides-only, however the sample code that she discusses in the slides can be found here. It is a simple example of configuring WS-SecurityPolicy for encryptiong and signing, using VB.NET.
• Harry reports on a bunch of new Architecture bloggers. Goodness. I love this line too, “Given the recent "Unwanted Modeling Language" backlash against UML 2, I'm not sure how fair it is for Grady to be calling any modeling approach over-engineered. “ Heh, how very true.
•  Mark Fussell posted the slides and sample code for hisTechEd 2004 talk on XML in the .NET framework. This is a VS2K5 talk so make sure you have a copy of the preview for these.
• The best browser in the world, Mozilla Firefox has come out in a 0.9 release. Yes you want a real browser