Tagged: December 2005 Blog Posts

to whomever services the united states postal service (usps) tracking applications, please remove them.  they serve no purpose.  or at least please rename them. i ranted about how much usps tracking sucks a while back but felt like ranting again.  i bought something on ebay last week and the ebayer shipped it usps priority mail/trackable the next day (12/21).  here is the “tracking status” as of today: “The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper or shipping partner on December 21, 2005 to expect your package for mailing.  Information, if available, is updated every evening.  Please check again later.” okay, a few...

the e-learning team is providing several free training opportunities including: upgrading from visual basic 6 asp.net 2.0 visit the free visual studio e-learning for more info!

lots of feedback of the loss of the webproj web project file in asp.net applications.  most good, some bad.  as a result, the web team has been working hard on several aspects post-RTM for asp.net v2 and visual studio 2005. you should have by now hear about web deployment projects. now look at the web application project (preview).  ScottGu does a great job at explaining the new web application project for visual studio 2005 and some tutorials on its use, as well as explaining some of the compilation details behind it. take a look!

IDE hang when modifying c# code? check out this fix: KB910832 fix is available by calling PSS

one of my favorite tools has released a new version, chalk full of features... go check it out now: FinalBuilder 4