Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe).  I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA ''issues'' it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio 2005 in a variety of areas. I specifically like these news features: Multi-targeted ...

Edward Jezierski just announced it here. ''The Web Client Software Factory is a guidance offering currently under development that will provide comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build web solutions using the Microsoft platform (ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Workflow Foundation, etc).'' This is the fourth Software Factory the ...

I just blog'd about the CSS Control Adapter Toolkit here.  If you are a web designer who has tried to use Visual Studio and found it lacking as a tool for CSS dev, then you will definitely want to check out Expression Web.  Expression Web has a great CSS design time experience.  There are quite a few videos in the ...

Brian Goldfarb announced the new version here.  Scott Guthrie has a nice walkthrough here.  The toolkit itself comes with a tutorial.  You can get the toolkit here. Are you saying to yourself ''Great, but what the heck is it?''  Many of the ASP.NET 2.0 server controls render out of the box using html tables.  This ...