A new Mono Release ( 0.29 ). In this release Asp.Net is considered feature-complete.

The XAML IntelliSence Patch for PDC Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey" shows Microsoft is commited to getting developers ready for Longhorn.

Eric is doing the right thing, please Microsoft take his offer and end the suffering.

Steve Maine has a great sessionstate preformance tip. On a related note, don't overload the constructors for aspx pages (the class in the code behind file), this resulted in a hard to diagnose httpexception, when using SessionState.

Today I discovered it's not possible to define a DateTime member as a const and attributes will only take const, typeof's and array creators as parameter.

So this won't compile:

private const DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.MinValue; // Personally I think DateTime.MinValue can be assumed to be a constant.

nor will this:

[NullValue( DateTime.MinValue )]

Duncan points to some Hands On Labs downloads, a great starting point for developing on future platforms.

Check here for the current working draft of obsoleted methods in Whidbey and complain to BradA.

The big change I noticed is most of the clientside functionality now hidden in System.Web.UI.Page is moved to the ClientScript class ( e.g. System.Web.UI.Page.RegisterStartupScript has become ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(string key, string script) )

I'm a pragmatic programmer, what are you?

Avonelle has some issues with web setups, I hope this will get a lot easier in a Whidbey.

And Julia thinks Jeff Julian's desk looks bad. At least his desk doesn't have 8 books waiting to be read and a pile of garbage waiting to be sorted through. At least Rory's desk looks like a proper nerd bachelor™ 's desk.