Here. If you've got a VS.NET question, I'm now the official SearchVB site's VS.NET "expert", which seems strange on a site with "VB" in the title, but .NET is about language-neutrality, after all. : )

Here. I'm a big Alan Cooper fan and this is a recent interview.

Here. "[W]here is the unmanaged programmer to turn [for building web services]? The answer is ATL Server. Developers familiar with conventional COM programming using Visual Studio® 6.0 and ATL 3.0 will find an extraordinarily empowering suite of tools and classes in the new ATL 7.0 library that comes with Visual Studio .NET. The classes that support such Web application development as building XML Web Services are collectively termed ATL Server. This article will explain how the C++ programmer can use the facilities available in ATL Server to develop high-performance Web Services quickly." This is really Kirk's baby, I just helped get it dressed for public display. : )

Here. ".NET Pet Shop 2.0 is a reference application for building highly scalable ASP.NET Web applications. The application is functionally equivalent to the Sun® Microsystems Java™ Pet Store 1.2 blueprint application, and can be used to compare the coding concepts, basic application server features, and architectures of .NET and J2EE™. It also includes benchmark data for comparison."

Here. Keith Brown has *finally* decided to write Essential .NET Security and he'll be posting it to HTML as he writes it. He's already got the ASP.NET security chapter posted. Wahoo!

Here. In which I'm inspired by Tim Ewald and come to realize that runtime type checking is a very good thing.

Here. Here's the "Top 10 Reasons You Know Youve Been Hacking Too Many Web Services..." that Tim and I presented at the Web Services DevCon (which was very fun, btw).

Here. "Eiffel ENViSioN!TM is a plug-in for Visual Studio .NET - its icon appears in the same place the other languages do, but that's where the similarity ends. Eiffel ENViSioN! enables you to use the powerful features of the Eiffel language, including Design by ContractTM (a means for making super-robust software, native only to Eiffel), multiple inheritance, generics, and many others. You can use it to be more productive than you ever dreamed. (Eiffel users report that they can produce 3-10x as much high-quality software as they can using any other language and/or tools.)" Eiffel has two features that I wish C# had: design by contract and generics. While the free edition is limited when compared to the non-free edition, it won't expire. If you'd like to see how Bertrand Meyer thinks you ought to program w/o leaving the comfort of .NET, check it out.