Once again working on my backlog... interested in ASP.NET 2.0? Then watch the videos on this page. Jeff Prosise talks about Web Forms, State Management, Security, Master Pages and Site Navigation, Data Access as well as Application Infrastructure.

The BCL Team has an interesting blog post for all those of you who want to solve every string matching problem using a regular expression. Kit George reflects on when not to use RegEx to match strings.

CodeHTMLer is a Web application for creating nicely formatted (and colored) HTML from your source code (C#, VB.NET, et cetera). Aside from the functionality, the newsworthy bit is that it comes with (C#) source code, which is BSD-licensed as far as I can tell from the wording.

New in the Download Center: an ISO image of Exploring ASP.NET 2.0 Using Visual C# 2005 (CD1), a training course provided by AppDev. CD Contents include:

• AppDev user interface
• Video demonstrations
• Testing
• Full courseware on PDF covering the content on the CD

As stated in the title, I am currently downloading. So I can't yet tell what is all in there.

In my spare time (ok, some might argue about my definition of "spare time") I run the German ASP and .NET mailing lists, and my official title there is Bastard Listmaster from Hell (BLfH for short; me and my assistant have a German-language blog too).

That's not quite the point though. Both the assistant and himself are also tester on the #develop project, which led to the usual team Ts. Those were available for quite some time, but the shop language was German - but now Spreadshirt enabled us to switch to English, and the BLfH shop is now open for international business. Next task: add a cool T-shirt for .NET Golf. Oh, btw, a new hole starts today at 4pm CET, German-speaking programmers welcome!

If you ever need to explain .NET to the powers that be, download the .NET Core Brochure. This is what I call management-compatible, a developer wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

The past three days I attended the ASP / vs2005 conferences in Munich as a speaker (not including today of course, which was spent in sunshine on the slopes of the ski resort Dachstein West, gorgeous powder included after the snowfalls of last week). As advertised, my talks were about (near) future technologies: ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages & Themes, ASP.NET 2.0 Membership & Security as well as a crash dive of VSTS Team Developer, with demo focus on Unit Testing, TDD, Code Coverage as well as Profiling.

I brought back a couple of fotos, the first two are (of course) self promotion - myself in talk #1 and #2.

Thursday evening the speakers were invited to a "VIP Dinner", and I couldn't resist to test my SPV C500 camera in low-light conditions. It did fare fairly well if subjects did not move.

Al & Dave

Hannes Preishuber, the conference chair

Christian Wenz, co-speaker and doubling as Peter's and mine taxi back to the hotel

The 80/20 Rule for Web Application Security is an article by Jeremiah Grossman, focused on increasing the security without touching the source code. The article identifies the "vital few" security solutions essential to protecting a website:

• Default server error messages
• Remove or protect hidden files and directories
• Web server security add-ons
• Add httpOnly flag to sensitive cookies

Port Reporter (PortRptr.exe) is available in v1.01. Port Reporter logs TCP and UDP port activity on a local Windows system. It runs as a service on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. The information provided by the service can be helpful for security purposes, troubleshooting scenarios, and profiling systems’ port usage.

A non-programming security topic centered around securing your wireless LAN. This white paper contains instructions to obtain and install a certificate for PEAP-MS-CHAP v2 wireless authentication on the IAS (RADIUS) server and how to set up the clients to trust this certificate.