Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is available for the MSDN subscriber downloads. There You can find these items. Visual SourceSafe 2005 Beta 2 (English) Visual Studio 2005 Standard Beta 2 (English) Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition Test Load Agent Beta 2 (English) Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 (English) Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Beta 2 (English)

As I have mentioned many times: .Net is about reducing effort needed to develop infrastructure for the business apps. So, the enterprise library is a next step to - it allows reducing it even more. Quote Enterprise library

Normally, when You will administer BizTalk - You will do it using Remote Desktop, but in case if You don’t want doing it, then You can read the topic below. Quote Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock) - Administrating multiple BizTalk 2004 environments from a single Dear admins, if You want to be as cools as Devs will full set of features to administer stuff on the server check out the gotdotnet.

Sad news, but maybe it will make a better product. Quote PC World | Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 delayed

During the last event in Kaunas University of Technology, I was giving the presentation about the new things that are available in ASP.Net 2.0. Specifically, I have covered the personalization and membership topics. Because I had only 40 minutes for the presentation and questions, so I had to run through the slides very quickly. What I have decided, is to spend more time on demos, with a common goal to create a personalizable web site.

Quite a nice topic to read about custom entity classes. ASP.NET Home: On the Way to Mastering ASP.NET: Introducing Custom Entity Classes. Of course there can be always a point, where everyone could start flaming about performance, design and other issues. Though, it is pretty interesting to read.

A new version of MSMQ adapter for biztalk released. I’m not using it, but if You are - then it is for You. First: big message (up to 2 GB) support, multithreading, etc. Quote Download details: BizTalk Server 2004 Adapter for MSMQ v2.0 And one more thing, doc upadate is alse here.

Tuesday, February 22nd, I will be giving presentation about ASP.Net 2.0 development. Mainly, I will talk about Membership and Personalization. It will be hard to fit with this quite an interesting subject into dedicated 40 minutes. But I will try … I promise. After long thoughts what to talk and what to show, I ended up with demos that almost do not have any code, just few lines. But this I think is the main benefit of new ASP.

Some time ago, I’ve written that Notepad2 is Cool. Yes, really it is. Though, currently I am more attracted by Notepad++ which has appart the collor coding, multiple syntax support one ‘killer feature’ - the region and syntax folding. Therefore it is very nice when You review a bit longer code and don’t want to wait for VS.Net to start.

Have some interest in ASP.Net 2.0? Then You can look at this, if not running on GPRS of course . Quote : Multimedia