Tired of losing your Etch-A-Sketch work?  Wish you could reload existing drawings onto your Etch-A-Sketch with little to no effort just like in Toy Story?  Get the high speed Etch-A-Sketch USB 2.0 adapter created by Dan Dominguez from eBay (I had the privilege of meeting Dan in my ASP.NET 2.0 class this week at Interface). 

For those of you that like to stay on top of the latest technologies, Microsoft just released the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview today which provides the following new functionality (quoted from the http://www.asp.net Website):

I recently finished up a new article for Visual Studio Magazine that's now online for those that are interested.  It discusses how to integrate ASP.NET AJAX with back-end Web Services including Amazon.com's e-commerce service.  Read the article at the link below:

.NET 3.5 is out which means all of the great features available in C# 3.0 are available to use now.  Here's a quick list of the main language enhancements available in C# 3.0:

Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of Language Integrated Query (LINQ).  If you've ever had to write code to loop through objects to locate properties and then filter the collection based upon specific values then you'll definitely have an appreciation for what LINQ has to offer.  It's a phenomenal technology that will definitely make developing applications a more productive process.  Scott Guthrie has some really nice tutorials that help jumpstart learning more about LINQ and LINQ to SQL that you can view here.  For those that haven't seen many LINQ samples, here's a simple example of using LINQ to filter a collection of Customer types based upon a Country property:

I recently came across a new poster Microsoft released that provides a nice view of common types and namespaces in the .NET Framework 3.5.  You can download a PDF version of the poster here.