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One of the very cool feature in Web Matrix v0.6 is the real time visual rendering of User Control. That is, if we create a User Control and save it(uc1.ascx), and then we create a parent/template page (WebForm1.aspx) to embed this User Control, what we have to do is to drag the User Control (uc1.aspx) and drop it onto the page (WebForm1.aspx), then the visual appearance of the User Control will be displayed on the designer of Web Matrix automatically. That's a really cool feature in WM and his brothers - Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 still can NOT render user controls in real time like that but just showing a 'grey box' instead.

Recall a blog discussing "What are you currently reading?" by ScottW, and I know that there're really a lot of valuable books out there.

My local .NET User Group hold a technical presentation today and the topic is Database Programming with .NET - A Quick Start. This presentation is hold by my User Group and a tertiary educational insitutation cooperatively and target for the students.

Mike post a FAQ for Email Sending in ASP.NET and I blog it in my previous entry. Today, I saw a Forum member face this problem while his suggest solution is NOT covered in this FAQ, so one addition to this list of FAQ today :)

I blog about a book by Paul Wilson yesterday and got a comment from my friend - Paul Wilson in a couple of hours. (2 x Thanks to PaulS)

I read few pages of a book titled "Calm at Work" - Paul Wilson.

Yes, the author of this book is Paul Wilson! That's why I pick it up from the bookshelf (Hey Paul, why don't you let me know that you publish a book with no relationship with .NET?!)

Obviously, that author is actually NOT the one who I know - the ASP.NET Guru: PaulWilson. I saw this book on the cateogry of Psychology from a bookstore, and I pick it up anyway as the title is quite interesting to me (another reason is that I want to clarify is that Paul == the one who I know :)
While a chapter of "Time" and "Time Pressure" in this book impressed me and I'd like to blog and share it:

After reading a blog about a 'multi-monitor' (pilot) office here (remind me if you remember the Url of that blog), I saw another 'special' office today...