ScottGu's Blog

K. Scott Allen has an awesome blog and regularly publishes great articles on .NET topics (I've linked to a lot of them in the past).

Mikhail from the Visual Studio Web Tools Team just published a cool free plug-in for VS 2005 (that he built in his free-time) that provides support for spell-checking HTML and ASP.NET page content within the VS 2005 IDE:

Earlier this week we released the April CTP refresh of Atlas (which, like the March CTP drop, supports a go-live license). 

Today we released the source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers (basically all of the built-in providers that ship in the .NET 2.0 Framework Redist).  You can download them here, and learn more about the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model from this site here.

Rick Strahl has published a excellent (and very comprehensive) new article on techniques to perform credit-card payment processing with ASP.NET.  He also includes full source code examples (for both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0). You can check it out here.

One of the things you want to avoid when deploying an ASP.NET application into production is to accidentally (or deliberately) leave the <compilation debug=”true”/> switch on within the application’s web.config file.

Josh and Bruusi have a great .NET blog here. 

I posted the slides+demos from my ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks talk online last week from the ASP.NET Connections Conference in Orlando.  One of the new features I talked about was the "App_Offline.htm" feature in ASP.NET 2.0, which provides a super convenient way to bring down an ASP.NET application while you make changes to it (for example: updating a lot of content or making big changes to the site where you want to ensure that no users are accessing the application until all changes are done).