Are you interested in what Microsoft is doing next with it’s web tools and platform? Better yet do you want to have input to what it dose? Then come to a new conference that is happening on March 20-22, 2006 At The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, NV. There is quit a bit of buzz around Mix and the looks quite interesting content. Let me know if you are going!

In late December the Team System teem released a MSSCCI provider for Team System Foundation. Brian Harry has a good description of who can expect this to help.

Yes thats correct a new Commerce Server is  on it’s way! After the my past scaring experience with Commerce Server I has sworn off ever looking at it again but now the job dictates that try to keep up. I am extremely happy to say that after the first look I am excited to dig in.

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If you are like me you get asked a lot by family about computer problems and despite what you suggest they still keep loading crap on there system and run as administrator. Well Microsoft has recently opened a site with some tools that can help, check out Windows Live Safety Center there you will find some tools that will let even family do some good maintenance on there systems. I hope this helps reduce the number or hours you spend in-front of you mother-in-law’s computer .

I have setup a new hosting account with webhost4life turns out ehostimgbiz who I have happily hosted with for years has gone out if business but they were just a reseller for webhost4life so while my account will not move this site may see some temporally hick ups.

webhost4life has the same deal that ehostingbiz did in that if people sign up using my referral ID then I will get some credit that I can use to pay for my site so if you need a hoster and webhost4life looks like a good deal this link LINK will sign you up while giving me credit if not use this link LINK and you can sign up with no one getting credit.

OK for me this is a bit out there but I just needed to share Don’t Ever get this drunk!

I get a lot of questions of what is included in what versions of Visual Studio, in a email recently some one pointed out that on MSDN there is this list: Product Feature Comparisons. While I am sure some will not what they are interesting in on this list but it’s a good place to start.

Have fun and I hope you all had great Christmas!

 

The some great resources for learning Visual Basic & Visual C# using the Express releases have been updated for the RTM versions of the Express additions.

I was talking with a customer last week about ColdFusion & ASP.NET and they contended that ColdFusion was just like ASP.NET and while in 1.1 that was somewhat true as far as the front end development goes but once you look you miss a lot if the things that make .NET development so nice in that you can separate code in to layers (UI, Biz & Dal) and now with ASP.NET 2.0 and the provider model flexibility, Master Pages, Web Parts and so much more I don't think the argument can be made now.

For some back ground on ColdFusion & ASP.NET check out the MSDN article Migrating from ColdFusion to ASP.NET is has an interesting comparison of features.

Yes we now have some releases of the Patterns & Practices for VS 2005 way cool stuff that now takes advantage of the new APIs in .NET 2.0.

I have been quite busy of late with lot’s of little trips a tone of local community events customer meetings and the normal never ending email but it’s all good! There is a ton of great people out there really interested in .NET and that is what I am all about. I recently got to do a presentation on Team Systems to the new group Santa Barbara . NET User Group, it was a good interactive group and it looks to be a great group. I have also been doing a bunch of work for the upcoming SoCal Code Camp where we are now taking requests to speak so if you want to talk to geeks go sing-up!

The biggest surprise was that I was contact by a guy up close to Fresno about starting a .NET user group up there he has a web site up at centralcaldotnet.com so if you know anyone in the central vally let them know and look back for details here and on there site.

The patterns & practices group has some Visual Studio 2005 content available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/vs2005/ most of the content is still in the early stages but VB6 migration stuff is slid.