This Thursday afternoon I attended the rerun of the VSTO session (Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office System - quite a mouthfull, I'll stick with VSTO) in the Smart Client track (my main track was VSTE - Visual Studio Team Edition). Wow! The 2003 version didn't impress me at all when I saw it back then. But 2005 really rocks. Catherine Heller (Technical Evangelist) did a nice demo in Excel. The way the document is design- and programmable, access to the action pane and rolling your own smart tags is almost too easy. Forget about VBA, serious Office development is now on the horizon.

VSTO 2005 Blog

VSTO 2005 Beta Page

What's New in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

Details on Brian Goldfarb's blog. Read the announcement / Go there

This white paper explains the differences between Virtual PC and Virtual Server and discusses the scenarios in which it is appropriate to use one or the other. Download

Dino Esposito has posted code updates here for his book Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0. I was tech editor on this book, so I definitely recommend getting the book (and no, I don't get anything for this shameless plug).

Next week I will be attending a four day Whidbey training on campus with focus on Visual Studio Team System. Not exactly looking forward to yet another long flight though.

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The Securing Wireless LANs with PEAP and Passwords solution guide is designed to help small- and medium-sized organizations protect their wireless local access network (LANs). This prescriptive guidance will assist you in planning, deploying, testing, and managing a wireless LAN security infrastructure using Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Pocket PC 2003. The guide is a companion to the earlier solution guide Securing Wireless LANs – a Certificate Services Solution. However, this updated guide uses passwords to authenticate users and computers to the LAN instead of digital certificates. Download

A guidance for threat modeling Web applications has been released on the patterns&practices site. A must-read for every Web developer.

When I first saw the Toshiba Tecra M4 convertible tablet, I wanted it. Back then, I checked out the prices at Toshiba Direct, and they were reasonable. Now I saw the European prices in c't magazine. I didn't believe what I saw and made a comparison with an equally configured system at Toshiba Direct - 2500 USD compared to 3500 Euro! Are you nuts, Toshiba? Do you think we Europeans like to be ripped off? (Apple seems to think the same) You just lost a couple of customers that were waiting for this tablet.

Found in the El Reg Shop Cash'n'Carrion: