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On a recent post regarding the installation of  Visual Studio 2008, a question was raised about a missing web site option:

In the previous soliloquy, my alter-ego (Shadowman) decided to "shadow" the journey of Jesse Liberty's The Great Asynchronous Learning Experiment.

After reading Jesse Liberty's blog series at the Silverlight.net site, I decided to journey along with him.  As he is wearing the hat of a developer learning Silverlight from scratch, I will do the same.  I will "shadow" Jesse's blog, highlighting my own discoveries and questions along the way. 

After all these years, I finally made my first purchase from ebay.

The Apple Software Update attempted to run on my notebook computer today, but I got the following message:

A gentleman in my ASP.NET 2.0 class a while ago asked me how to access the underlying object used for the ObjectDataSource control.  Suppose you have some code in App_Code like so:

When I attend a technical conference, I usually do not see attendees exhibit great eating habits.  Let's face it, the way computer professionals are typically displayed in the media is as nerds with junk food in one hand, soda in another.  I don't mind the nerd stereotype, but I would like to defy the image that we can not control our eating.

One of the first tasks I tried when I installed Visual Studio 2008 was to open a Visual Studio 2005 project.  I was prompted with the following: