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Thanks to Major Nelson. There was an update today (I think I got it late last night). Here's to hoping more of my games make the list.

If you want to send the team some feedback, here is the email address: backcomp@microsoft.com

Put in your vote now so they know what should come next.

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Bill Vaughn gives a good overview of why you would not want to use Access for multi-user applications. For that MSDE/SQL Server Personal/SQL Express is better.

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=7

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=18

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GO Mono. Miguel was interviewed by the Server Side.Net. Nice to see where the platform is compared to where it started. I hope VB.Net can catch on more. It really can make some day to day programming easier.

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Another branch of .TEXT has been recently released. Subtext seems very nice and simple blogging engine to use. If you want something simple, this may be one to look closely at.

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Important updates to how Internet Explorer works. I HIGHLY recomend that people install the optional update and start developing with it every day. That way any issues are discovered early. I installed it when it was optional (which is why sometimes it is good to install ALL updates, even optional ones) so I have seen this behavior for a little while now.

The important thing is that this change will be permanent by July. One interesting think I thought about is that WinFX and ClickOnce applications would get around this to an extent. So esentially older "ActiveX" type controls probably are being slowly phased out for the more complete ClickOnce and WinFX applications since they don't rely on a web browser to work fully (thus getting around the pattent).

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Much love goes out to the family of Corey D. Watson, both blood and fraternal. I hope all those who were touched by this life continue to carry that light burning bright.

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Yeah Toshiba is back to normal prices. Originally the R10 could be configured and started around $800. Now on the site the R15 starts at $1150. I should have bought it. Luckily I convinced my Mom to buy one in time. I had her customize it and it only cost her 1200 with a gig of memory and a processor/hard drive upgrade.

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Well due to advertising on Channel 9, ther now is traffic on the blog. I am glad to contribute bug fixing and working hard on a "special" feature. Visual Studio Templages for .NET 1.1 objects.

I hope to eventually complete all the items by the time when MSBee is released.

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The Federal Developer web site is pretty nice. Good to see them using SharePoint.

Being a former support person for SharePoint, I am glad that in-roads are being made for the product.

Thanks to Marc for putting this up.

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Using the text part feature, you can create a list of custom links for your blog. The documentation is not there on how to use it, but the forums have a pretty good explanation.

Now to get PostXING to change from brackets to < and > signs or something else for the currently playing feature...

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Many people don't know how to "properly" use Visual Source Safe. Usually exclusive checkout is something you DON'T want to do when you have several developers working on a project.

So many places I have been decided on the exclusive check out for "easier" merging, but you sacrafice speed of development since only one person can check out a file at one time. Also the concept of branching and merging between branches are not understood fully either.

A basic course on using version control systems properly would be a good seminar for Microsoft to provide so that SourceSafe, Visual Studio Team System, even other third party tools like Subverson (I love the Windows integration component) can be understood and implemented better.