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In a recent post, I pleaded for help with CSS.  Among some of the great suggestions, I stumbled across an interesting feature supported by IE... Conditional Comments. These are evaluated on the client-side. In the context of CSS, it would enable a developer to allow IE to determine whether or not to process a link tag.

I stink at look-and-feel... and I hate that!

I just posted a blog, and spent too much time trying to get my code to format correctly.  At that, it did not turn out well.

Yesterday was my first delivery of an MSDN Webcast.  My topic - Caching Strategies for ASP.NET.  One of the topics I demonstrated was a Cache Loading Pattern.  This blog is to provide a code-walkthrough of that discussion

I have been in New Mexico this week.  My mission is somewhat classified. Simon Allardice explains it well here:

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My first MSDN Webcast is less than two weeks away.  Please join me as I consider Caching Strategies for ASP.NET.

I recently took my family to Disneyland/California Adventure (we had a great time).  However, IT is a small world.  While standing in line for the California Screamin' Rollercoaster, I ran into the Sheriff... Paul Sheriff of http://www.pdsa.com and Microsoft Regional Director.  You never quite plan to run into the Sheriff, but when you do, it can be an intimidating experience. Thankfully, he let me off the hook, and even took a picture with me (imagine bringing a camera to a place like this?)

If you ever need a GUID generated during design time (serviced components, unique ids), you could always use the [Tools]-[Create GUID] menu options in Visual Studio .NET 2003.  However, I find that it is too many steps.  I created a MACRO to do the same thing, and assigned a keyboard shortcut to the macro (ALT-G).