Currently only the English version is available, but other versions should appear soon. Biggest improvement would be support for Windows 2003 server, Exchange 2003 and Office 2003; combined with SBS 2003, CRM seems a very powerfull and affordable solution.

MSDN subscriber downloads

EricGu has an interesting post about method overloading and type-conversions, highly recommended.

Register here for the launch webcast of SQL Reporting services, which is a great product for automagically creating and distributing all your managment pr0n.

source: jim blizzard

Udi Dahan is a big fan of paper prototyping with the client/user, which in my opinion can be a great starting point for design and certainly should be used to verify the design before the actual development starts.

Fabrice has a cool code sample, but I doubt I'll ever see something like it in production code.

Mmh, pies and cookies.

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas are available contianing Overview articles on WordprocessingML (the XML file format for Microsoft Office Word 2003), SpreadsheetML (Microsoft Office Excel 2003) and FormTemplate XML schemas (Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003). This updates the previous release which only contained the schema for WordML.

Everything seems to work and I like the new “dasBlog”-theme.

Jeff Key has a nice for-loop example.

I occasionally use something like this:

for( int i = 0, j = 10; i < 10 && j > 0; i++, j-- ){
//..
}

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