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These days a new programming paradigm is gaining momentum: GSCP.
In fact, a lot of us already practice it even without knowing it. What does GSCP mean, will you ask... Simply Google Search, Copy/Paste!

I've never used Windows Live and I don't think I need it, but it seems fabulous.
Just look at its latest feature:

If you try to use URL rewriting and ASP.NET 2 themes at the same time, you will likely get broken pages, because the two don't mix very well.
A typical link to a theme's stylesheet looks like this in the generated HTML:
<link href="App_Themes/Theme1/StyleSheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
The problem is that these links to CSS documents are using relative paths, which is not going to work fine if you use RewritePath on your web requests.

I'm back to working on web applications and this time it is with ASP.NET 2 of course.
To help you get started with the new ASP.NET version, here are some great weblogs you don't want to miss:

• Scott Guthrie's weblog
• Nikhil Kothari's weblog
• Bertrand Le Roy's Atlas stuff
  
• K. Scott Allen's weblog
• Rick Strahl's weblog
• Fredrik Normén's weblog
  

PageMethods for VS 2005 has been updated with various fixes and improvements. Note that an FAQ is now available.

Please update your version. Please uninstall the previous version first.

Details about the updates since the official release:

• version 1.5.1.0 (bug fixes and improvements)
  • It is now possible to activate and deactivate the PageMethods add-in directly from projects' properties, without having to proceed through the Web.config file.
  • PageMethod's strong-named assembly can now be called in shared web hosting environments (details).
• version 1.5.0.2 (bug fixes)
  • PageMethods was not handling correctly projects under IIS.
• version 1.5.0.1 (bug fixes)
  • Take into account the additional namespace added in Web.config when using the ASP.NET Configuration tool, as described here.
  • Added some code to keep Intellisense (code completion) more in sync with your modifications.
  • Added some code to avoid problems with some kinds of projects (like SQL Server Reporting Services projects).

The new Web Project Option for Visual Studio 2005 is now available as an alpha version. Its new name is the "Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Model". You can get all the details on Scott Guthrie's weblog and on the dedicated web site.

One workaround is to set <trust level="full" /> in the web.config file (within system.web element) - although I suspect hosts shouldn't allow this to work.

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