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 ...

Thanks to everyone who attended our Public Sector Developer Conference in Downers Grove, IL.  I don't have all of the decks yet, but I figured I would post anyway to get you started.  I will update this post when I get the other decks. Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL - deck, demo code What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio ...

I've received quite a few requests to update my Virtual Earth + Silverlight and WPF + Virtual Earth + Silverlight samples.  Both codebases are old code.  Therefore, they no longer work against the current releases of Silverlight (1.0 Beta or 1.1 Alpha) and Virtual Earth (v5).  I'm part of the way there towards getting the ...