[Alienware]

Caching pages, or parts of pages can give you a great boost in performance for your web app. Even if you only cache a page for a couple of seconds, the difference in performance can be huge for high load sites.

[ASP.NET Micro Caching: Benefits of a One-Second Cache]

It's generally a nad idea to put xml in strings, but when returned from a webservice... there is a special place in hell reserved for that developer, sorry CRM guys.

Matt Powel's Rant,  part 2, part 3 and part 4.

This is just a test to see if everything works now.

Early Adopter noticed a new naming convention for controls in the latest community preview of Whidbey:

Goodbye txtUserName, hello UserNameTextBox?

I find the second option to be more readable and more inline with the coding-conventions. You don't use strUserName anymore either, do you?

it was kinda to be expected, but EricGu seems to be the first to mention there will be a new release of Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) at Tech-Ed San Diego. Now if only that build works on the WinHec Longhorn build.