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There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features the author personal pick of the "best of the best."

An excellent series on WPF by Josh Smith is available on CodeProject:

Mike Taulty play with silverlight and create a sliding puzzle. Cool!

ADO.NET Synchronisation Services is a technology for helping with those online/offline applications where you need to get data down to be stored on a laptop to enable mobile working (device support isn't something that it's in the first version AFAIK).

Sad news, Robert Burke is leaving Microsoft Ireland :-(

With 18 sessions from amazing speakers, this is one event that you will not want to miss! They are covering everything from the new Silverlight and Expression products to WCF, Biztalk, SQL Server, Longhorn Server, Security, mobile dev, Infocard, game development with XNA. Have a look at the list below to get an idea of the sessions you will get to choose from.

visit www.developers.ie to know more!

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 shipped with a complete membership API that allows developers to manage the application’s users and their roles. However, this API best suits small to medium Web sites due to their limitation in expressing a detailed member record.