CramSession certification site hacked (pic)

A hacked message shows up shortly after visiting a cramsession.com page. Russian tunes play in the background.

Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0

A ton of great articles and tutorials on working with data in ASP.NET 2.0 applications has been published recently. This post highlights a few of them. [via ScottGu]

Expression Products Added to MSDN

Expression Web and Expression Blend will now be available at no extra charge to all MSDN Premium Subscribers (this includes customers with the "VS Professional with MSDN Premium" subscription). This means many more developers will have awesome design tools for building great ASP.NET, WPF and "WPF/E" solutions. [via ScottGu]

IIS 7.0

IIS 7.0 is shipping later this year. It is the most significant release of the web-server since IIS 1.0, and introduces a huge number of improvements for both administrators and developers. [via ScottGu]

ASP.NET AJAX Documentation Update, Videos and Cool Articles

Here is a quick post on some great ASP.NET AJAX focused content that has been published recently. [via ScottGu]

Free eBook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers

Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. [via MSDN]

Visual Studio Code Snippets for the Office Fluent UI

This download includes Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C# code snippets for use when customizing Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and Microsoft Office Word 2007. Download and install these snippets to your Visual Studio code snippet folder and use them with the Visual Studio Code Snippets Manager.