Officially this morning, Robotics Studio was released.   With Microsoft Robotics Studio, robotic applications can be developed using Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Express C# and VB as well as Microsoft IronPython.  Read the Press Release and the PressPass Q&A with Tandy Trower.   Feature ...

David Yack just pointed me to the C# Code Snippets that should have been in VS 2005 but weren't.  Download them now from MSDN. C# Code Snippets David's also got them broken down by categories if you prefer.

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=152&thread=82646I'm wrapping up some tests of AspAlliance Cache Manager (no URL yet) and wanted to ensure that my output was valid XHTML.  So I did some googling and found this thread which led me to create this technique in my unit test: private bool IsUrlValidXhtml(string ...

A new site I'm using to push me updates of interesting blogs is DotNetSlackers.com.  Sign up for their mail service, and you'll get a single daily email with that day's posts arranged by keyword category.  I've been pretty lax in firing up my RSS aggregator client, so this is a good way for me to at least make sure I'm not missing ...

I was lucky enough to attend a few Birds of a Feather sessions at PDC05, including one hosted by Julia Lerman on Going Solo.  At many of these, the time goes by very quickly and many of the attendees have additional questions for the host or for one another that must go unanswered.  Further communication is usually limited to a few ...