The Microsoft® Office Information Bridge Framework is a set of software components, tools, and prescriptive guidance that enable developers to create solutions that connect Microsoft Office System applications to virtually any enterprise system or application.

Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.0 BETA

Microsoft Office IBF SDK beta

Didn't get to try it out yet, since I only run VS.Net 2005 at home, but it looks very cool.

update:

More information is available in the Office Developer Center.

Kent Sharkey struggled with Browser Agent and Regex and created these browser caps, so Asp.Net doesn't tread Mozilla browser as low-end browsers. Add them to your machine config.

[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?