The ASP.NET 2.0 quickstart tutorials are in beta on www.asp.net. With .NET 1.0, these quickstarts are what I used extensively to learn my way around .NET. I'm sure I'll be using these as I move forward with ASP.NET 2.0, which I am hoping to start working… more »

I haven't messed with AJAX yet, and I don't have any immediate plans to do so. For those not familiar, AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, although it's most famous use is in the cool interface for Gmail (I still have invites if you want the… more »

Jeremy has a couple of nice posts about test driven development that, if you are looking for newbie advice on TDD, you should read. The first one talks about designing with TDD in mind, and the second discusses the advantages of high cohesion and loose c… more »

Doug over at The .NET Buffet has a post about an end to end application using the Enterprise Library. I still haven't had the time or the opportunity to dig into the EntLib, but this application may be a chance I get to dig in. I missed this a while bac… more »

MSDN now allows you to download their webcasts for offline viewing. There was a workaround for this a while back, but this is much easier - you can download it as a WMV file. Now I can download the webcasts on the Enterprise Library that I am interested… more »

Via Alex Lowe, I found this post from Leon at DotNetJunkies about a bug with static resource caching problems. Microsoft has a solution, but it's not widely available - you have to call to get it. If you are running IIS 6, it would be a good idea to take… more »

BusinessWeek has a cover article on blogging this week. It's available online, and it's a pretty good read. But, am I the only one who thought it was odd that the timeline was in chronological order instead of reverse chronological order, like a blog is?… more »

Having your site deleted is interesting. It was deleted on Tuesday, while I was at work (by my wife), and I had it back up Tuesday night. Throughout the week, I checked my Google rank, and it said there wasn't enough information to generate a page rank.… more »

There is an MSDN event in Grand Rapids at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on May 19th. There's three sessions, and all look good. 1. Web Services Unleashed2. Universal Data Access with SQL Server 20053. Publishing Applications using ClickOnce I'm pretty sure I wo… more »

Over the past year, I have posted a few tidbits from the project I am currently working on, including a teaser before I went on vacation that I would reveal what it was soon. Well, that time has come! I have been working with National City Mortgage on N… more »