Alex Hoffman

One annoyance with the VS.NET IDE is the less than helpful build output pane displayed on completion of a build.  As shown below it's not particularly descriptive.

Should one consider releasing a product built against the 1.1 framework rather than 1.0? Is it reasonable to insist on installation of the 1.1 framework, or is that unreasonable at this point from a marketing perspective?

Cory Smith, implies in a comment to my line feed post, that a compiled language (VB.NET) and scripting are mutually exclusive.

Embedding resources in my assembly and thenretrievingthemis somewhat easier than the convoluted method I have been using to date.

Sometimes it's the simple things that stump you. I'm converting somecode from C# to VB. What followed was a bit ofhead scratchingover what appeared to be the most trivial of tasks.

Discussing service oriented architectures with a number of developers recently, made me realize that there is real confusion about how an ASP.NET XML Web Service should be implemented architecturally.

SnipSnap is an interesting amalgamation of a wiki with a weblog written in Java.

John Udell recounts a great talk given by Adam Bosworth of BEA at the CTO Forum on Service Oriented Architectures.