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Web 2.0 - emerging from the silent-era Although web technology has evolved over the years, for the most part, it has remained silent. Will faster and cheaper bandwidth or the partnerships of Internet giants and entertainment conglomerates bring us an audible web? Do surfers even want sound-enhanced websites? Do You? Let your voice be heard! Brad Fuller

Good Overview of .NET 2.0 Security MSDN has a good overview of the security features of .NET 2.0 in the article above... Mitch Tulloch

Frankie's Friday Flashback Episode 2 The second episode of Frankie's Friday Flashback covers Working with .NET 2.0, Baywatch Cologne, Text Messaging is Making Kids Illiterate, Big Thanks to DonXML, Props to Javascript, and The King of Javascript. Frank La Vigne

Getting Started with Monad In large enterprises, being able to automate administrative tasks using scripts is essential... Mitch Tulloch

Bonjour for Windows Bonjour for Windows lets my XP box easily find my Mac computers. brian d foy

IE7 May Beat Firefox I've been using Internet Explorer 7 in the latest Vista beta for the last several weeks, and here's a shocker: It may be better then Firefox. Preston Gralla

Gender-relevant search? On Saturday a Bloomberg news item reported that Microsoft Research is working on enabling search technologies to determine the gender of the person doing a search... Mitch Tulloch

Score 1 for iTunes AAC! Here’s a happy surprise: When you burn an iTunes podcast file to CD, iTunes converts the chapters into CD tracks. Plus—a simple AppleScript that lets you jump to the exact second you want to hear in a long audio file. David Battino

Managing File Servers Windows Server 2003 "R2" has some terrific enhancements for deploying and managing file servers in the enterprise... Mitch Tulloch

Dot Net Rock TV The Dot Net Rocks team goes one step further and enters the Video Podcasting arena. Frank La Vigne, Frank La Vigne

Windows Has Fewer Security Holes than Linux The conventional wisdom holds that Windows is a security sieve, while Linux is locked down tight. Then why does Linux have three times the number of security holes as Windows? Preston Gralla

Two more bugs found in WMF So "cocoruder" finds two more bugs in Microsoft's WMF engine and publishes info about it on XFocus... Mitch Tulloch

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Programming C#, the top selling book on Microsoft's high-performance C# programming language, is now in its fourth edition. Aimed at experienced programmers and web developers, this comprehensive guide focuses on the features and programming patterns that are new to C#, and fundamental to the programming of web services and web applications on Microsoft's .NET platform.

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Emulators are a must-have for anyone developing mobile applications. To get you started, Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use the emulator tools that shipped with Windows Mobile 5.0 and Visual Studio 2005.

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IPSec management tools are not particularly intuitive in XP. But things are going to be better in Vista. Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, takes a look at IPSec support in Vista, and clues you in on what you can expect.

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Today's web application is customizable in ways that could only have been dreamed of five years ago, partially because of Web Parts. Jesse Liberty shows how they work by guiding you through building a simple application in ASP.NET. Jesse is the author of Programming ASP.NET, Third Edition.

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Unit testing is one of the tasks that every programmer worth their salt needs to do. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use the new Unit Testing feature of Visual Studio 2005 Team System to auto-generate the code needed to test your application.

One of Jesse Liberty's clients has a problem: she has a database with 2 million records and wants to display these records in a data grid, but does not want to load them all into memory from the database. She wants them loaded "just in time." Jesse shows how to use the new DataGridView to neatly solve the problem.

In Part 1 of this series, Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, showed you how to identify which basic server services are essential, and which can be turned off. In this second part, he shows you additional services for servers configured with specific roles.

Virtualization lets you have multiple "virtual machines," each with its own operating system running in a sandbox, shielded from each other, all in one physical machine. But why would you want to do this? Wei-Meng Lee explains, and takes you on a tour of some of the most popular virtualization software available: Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, VMware Workstation 5.0, and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.

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