Microsoft have opened registration for the full-day Launch events for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005

I'll be going to the Sydney event, so it will be interesting to see how that compares to the Adelaide ones i normally attend.

Note, these are different to the community launches that are also happening around the place.

Happened to browse the Internode ADSL2+ coverage table, not expecting too much, but hang on a tick, that would be my local exchange listed!

So sometime next year, we might be moving up in the world.

I'll stick with my trusty Billion 711CE for the meantime, but at some stage I might invest in a nice new ADSL2+ device, maybe with one of those new-fangled wireless doo-hickies, and throw in a central splitter to boot :-)

I've been trying to make use of a new ASP.NET 2.0 feature - embeded resources using the special HTTPHandler webresource.axd.

But looks like I'm not the only one who can't get it to work. Talk about frustrating! This should be a really nice way to embed client javascript files. Maybe I'm missing something really obvious but I can't even get the workaround to work either.

Visual Studio 2005 has been released!

Microsoft have released the final version of Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 (this is the x86 version). There are also releases for i64 and x64.

There's also the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005) Redistributable Package for Office 2003 fans.

I discovered today that the project properties for VB ASP.NET projects in Visual Studio 2005 are pretty lacking - including no option to enable/disable Option Strict. A workaround is posted here.