This handy Channel9 post shows how you can create XML Web services using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta 1. I have gotten questions like this and I wanted to explain the difference between Framework support and tool support. C# Express has full access to the .NET Framework. What that means is that you can create XML Web services using...

Caffeine is the internet economy's life blood. Yeah, that's a bold statement, but when your entire industry is over-worked, you should realize that there are complimentary things that we owe a great deal of debt to our success. Personally, I'm suffering from some bad sleep depression and exhaustion right now. Today, I...

DJ Bolivia, whom I blogged about earlier, just released Volume 2, download or start streaming it now!! "Memory Leak" (Music To Code By Volume 2)64 minutes of Progressive/Tribal HouseDownload the MP3 or listen to the stream I love the name, and the mix, but what do you all think?

In my previous post on Music, Seattle, and the Web, my loyal blog readers (I still respect you all even if the majority of you actually like candy corns) gave some great recommendations for online music in the comments. One of the links I included was to a mix by DJ Bolivia, who personally emailed me and sent me a link to another...

From the research web site: The Spec# programming system is a new attempt at a more cost effective way to develop and maintain high-quality software.   The system consists of: A programming methodology, which includes a sound treatment of object invariants in object-oriented programs. The Spec# programming language, which is a...

In the Visual Studio Connections keynote, I demonstrated the new features for finding and sharing content using Visual Studio 2005. In the demo, I showed how a developer can open up C# Express (or just about any VS 2005 product), click File New Project...Online Template...search for community content and download them to their machine. I won't...

I'm in Vegas this week for Connections. Connections is a 3-part conference covering ASP.NET, Visual Studio, and SQL Server.  I did the demo keynote for Marie Huwe, our fearless leader, and a session on language and IDE enhancements. I'm happy to be done with sessions. All the usual suspects are here, Juval Lowy and Carl...

In the comments of Scott Hanselman's blog posts on why VB developers don't switch/migrate/convert to VB.NET, someone replied with the following: So what application has Microsoft written totally in .NET that is worth a [expletive]? Visual Studio - NO, Office - NO, Notepad - NO, Calc - NO. Why haven't they? ..... Here's my response. While...

In our team meeting this week, Jay Roxe, the beloved VB Product Manager was nice enough to bring in some Halloween candy. But alas poor Jay brought what is, in my opinion, the absolute worst Halloween candy there is - candy corn. The nice and well meaning jesture met the wraith of me, BrianKel, and Rick and led to a discussion of what...

There's been a lot of discussion on C# Edit and Continue, and I thought I would try and share some resources we've put on MSDN. Tool: You can try E&C yourself by using the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition October Community Tech Preview (CTP) - You'll have to follow the workaround described in the C# Express section of the readme for...

The October Community Tech Previews for Express are now up on MSDN for download. Before you do anything, read the readme and remember that Community Tech Previews are *not*, *not*, *not* high quality builds and will probably be in worse condition then Express Beta 1. Lots of things won't work, and we've also added some new...

Soma and Jay have blogged about this already, but Edit and Continue support will be added to Visual C# 2005!! I really want to echo Jay's comments about the amount of herculean effort it took to get this into the product. Everyone really worked their tails off. Well done! Why did we add Edit and Continue? Because you really, really wanted...

ASP.NET developers should be aware of the ASP.NET canonicalization vulnerability. More information here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/aspnet.mspx BGold shares some good info here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/archive/2004/10/05/238449.aspx

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[No time to blog, my blog queue is floating around 48 items] Joe Nalewabau and Eric Gunnerson are both moving on to other teams at Microsoft. This sucks, they're great to work with, both rock-star speakers and will be sorely missed. Best of luck to them in their new jobs :) [back to work]