Monday, October 31, 2005
Markus on .NET Rocks!

Last Thursday, the .NET Rocks Internet Radio Talk Show stopped by in Houston as part of their road trip (see www.dotnetrocks.com/roadtrip). I went to the user group meeting, and we gave away a bunch of CoDe Magazines. As you may know, we have a partnership with .NET Rocks. For instance, we have a dedicated page in the magazine where we usually print excerpts from their show. Carl and Richard are also giving away magazines at every location, even though we are not a true road trip sponsor. At the end of the show, they take a bunch of people into their road trip RV ("the boat") and interview them. I also gave a short interview, discussing CoDe Magazine and also our Milos Solution Platform effort.

Check out the interview at http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=150. Also check out some of the other recordings from other road trip locations.

Monday, October 31, 2005
Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Released

Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are now available for MSDN subscribers on MSDN Online. The official release date isn't until November 7th, but MSDN subscribers already get the final bits.

Releases of both products have been eagerly anticipated as another round of great new features can be found in them. Also, these are very important releases, because many of the upcoming technologies (such as WinFX and LINQ) are based on the .NET Framework 2.0.