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Win Fx Why is Microsoft making it so hard to figure out how to begin? Jesse Liberty

More on Monad In a previous post I pointed readers towards where they can download the latest version of Monad, Microsoft's cool new scripting shell. Mitch Tulloch

Switching to Windows I know it's a mixed up quote from an old commercial, but some would "rather switch than fight" when it comes to moving from *nix to Windows as this post (and especially the third comment) on Adi Oltean's weblog incidates... Mitch Tulloch

The Best Firefox Extension Ever? Here's my vote for the best Firefox extension of all time: IE Tab, which lets you run Internet Explorer right in its own Firefox tab. Preston Gralla

Want to Work at Microsoft? Want to work at Microsoft? Joe Morel has been working there now for six months as a Program Manager and he has some terrific tips on things he wish he had known before he started working there.... Mitch Tulloch

Open Microsoft I spent two days this past week at Microsoft Search Champs, a conference where invitees make suggestions for their search tools and other MSN offerings. Andy Oram

Microsoft Licenses Source Code Microsoft has announced that it will license the source code for a significant portion of its Windows Server platform to EU companies who want to examine this code to better build compatible products... Mitch Tulloch

A useful little Windows tool for Unix people Too often we Java people don't give Microsoft credit for the small but useful things that they do. Paul Browne

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

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Jesse Liberty is creating an application from scratch in ASP.NET 2.0 while you watch over his shoulder. In part 2, he starts building the application, making use of Amazon Web Services.

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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.

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.

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