Microsoft’s long awaited contextual advertising platform, named ContentAds, sent out the first invitations today to prospective participants in its pilot program. Starting on “primarily” (their word) MSN owned sites, Microsoft says that ContentAds will place advertisements using not just keywords but also demographic targeting, geo-targeting and incremental bidding tools. Sounds like AdSense plus some consideration of the demographics of various MSN sites’ readership - we’ll see what happens when ContentAds are released into the wild. We’ll probably see soon.

Somebody just pointed out to me that the enum guidelines don’t provide any information on how to clear a flag in a flags enum variable.

eWEEK reports today, the announcement of PLinq. I'll quite directly from the article, as Andreas Hejlsberg captures the concept succinctly:

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/08/28/radius_320_moni.html

I am trying out Omea Reader and I really like the UI and ability to create search folders similar to what I had in Outlook. 

LonghornBlogs: Well, the big to-do for the day has been Vista pricing. Apparently Microsoft Canada's not the only company that's going to have someone fired today. Amazon.com has all prices online for pre-order. They've also listed a launch date, which apparently is January 30th, 2007.

This page includes information to help you download the Windows Vista pre-RC1 ISO file. This pre-RC1 build is available for a limited time – we will close the program when we reach 100,000 downloads. 

This is just my first gallery, and I’m already working on the second one will include installing and configuring Terminal Services and TS Web Access.

Sandcastle supports 4 different link type options. The link type options are defined in sandcastle.config file under ResolveReferenceLinks component. The 4 different type options under this component are the following:

I have an initial version of Performance Counter Grapher up and running. 

Notion Solutions announced the release of TeamCI, which is a solution to provide continuous integration for Team Foundation Build. You can download TeamCI from Team System Rocks. For more information, see Dave McKinstry's blog (Continuous Integration for Team Build).

August 2006 Sandcastle CTP should be available to download shortly. Here is a summary of what's new in this CTP version:

Molly Bostic, program manager, MSDN Wiki and a member of my team helped me last night to setup Sandcastledocs.com sharepoint wiki website. Thanks Molly J

I previously posted an item describing the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as the WinFX runtime components) deployment guide.  I noticed this morning that there is also a detailed administrator mode and deployment readme file for the .NET Framework 3.0.  This readme covers the following topics:

Question:

While researching a previous blog post, I discovered a way to configure post-build events for setup/deployment projects in Visual Studio 2005.  I had not realized that previous versions of Visual Studio did not support configurable post-build events for setup projects, but Visual Studio 2005 does.  In addition, the way to access the UI needed to configure this setting for a setup project is different than for other project types in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.