Here. Register now for the Web Services DevCon, October 10-11 in greater Boston, featuring Don Box, Tim Ewald and keynote speaker Sam Ruby. In addition to amazing talks by Microsoft’s Web Services Program Manager, Keith Ballinger, and IBM Distinguished Engineer, Noah Mendelsohn, as well as wizened practitioners from HP, Macromedia and the W3C, all attendees receive exclusive SellsBrothers t-shirts available nowhere else. Register now!

Here. Just when you'd thought you're learned everything there was to know about foreach in part 1, I've got more in part 2! This part (the final : ) discusses implementing support for foreach in your own custom types as well as how to patch holes in the framework where they forgot to add foreach support. Enjoy.

Here. Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells "Unresponsive programs are extremely frustrating to use. Applications that sometimes freeze for a moment are a source of much irritation, especially if they don't provide any feedback on what they are doing, or how long it is likely to be before they start responding again. This behaviour can be particularly common among applications that use remote facilities such as Web services. This article describes how to maintain responsiveness in .NET Windows Forms rich client applications, even when invoking potentially long-running Web services, by using multiple threads."

Here. Shawn Wildermuth and Chris Sells "In the .NET Framework, rich clients can bring database servers to their knees, just like Web-based applications. But with the disconnected nature of ADO.NET, your rich clients can manipulate and analyze database data without impacting the database server. Once you have the data in the rich client, you can do high-performance analysis of the data—including sorting, filtering, and querying—without expensive server calls. In this article we will show you how to use DataSet, DataView, and XmlDataDocument to make your rich clients work with database data in a disconnected way."

Here. I'd like to announce a new series of articles specially requested by Intel on the topic of making the most of the client tier. Topics include high-performance graphics, data and XML querying and filtering on the client-side, smart client deployment and more. Two articles are up now with more to come through the end of the year. Enjoy.

Here. A year ago, thousands of people lost their lives at the World Trade Center and at the Pentagon. I'm working from home, so I can't put on my headlights, but I've been doing a lot of thinking about that day today and my "virtual" headlights are most definitely on. I'm sure today is very difficult for the survivors and I'd like to extend whatever comfort I can. May God bless you all.

Here. Stoyan Damov, the Grand Prize winner in the "Spend A Day With .NET" Coding Contest, won a free trip to the Web Services DevCon [1], Oct. 10-11 in greater Boston. His Microsoft Knowledge Base Viewer application provides "what's new" functionality for KB articles in the technology areas of your choice, along with caching and plain-text/HTML viewing. And he built it in a single day with .NET! [1] http://www.sellsbrothers.com/conference

Here. From Razvan Caciula: John Robbins shows how to set breakpoints on all the functions in a particular source file in Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET.