I just got an email from Paul Litwin who is the track chair for ASPConnections.  Since DevConnections is being held right when the official launch date of VS & SQL 2005 occur (Nov 7), they are going to be a part of the celebration. If I were home in Vermont, I would not have this opportunity. Microsoft is very involved with the DevConnections show. The first day of the show, since I have been attending and presenting, has always been Microsoft Day. All presentations from Microsoft people. So, they are going to have a live feed of the central event from San Francisco, a big party and the biggest news I think is that all attendees will be getting a free license to Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. (Version has not been determined yet, but since it’s Vegas, I’m betting that it won’t be Express!)

I’m doing two sessions at ASP.NET Connections and two sessions at Visual Studio Connections.

Here is a link to the conference brochure (pdf).

The C++ is a special show because they will be celebrating the 20th anniversary.

I do it, so my site should be safe, right? Well it turns out that the answer is “wrong”!!

One of the websites that shares a webserver with my site left CustomErrors=”Off” in their web.config when they deployed their site.

How does this affect me? Well, there was a problem in the machine.config on the server. That website exposed the error because it had the customerrors off which basically does a little stacktrace dump on the webpage. In the particular case, it happened to show the bad line from the machine.config. What was the bad line? It set up impersonation for 4 websites on the server, of course mine being one of them. So browsing to that other website, showed anyone going there the logins and passwords for four domains.

So, now this is not a best practice, it is a rule. There are plenty of web.config settings that should not get to production!! Pay attention. Please.

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I would just like to point out that the word Indigo is now appearing on Michele Leroux Bustamante’s blog. Watch this space for lots of Indigo insights!!!

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Here is the abstract for the talk Sam is doing tomorrow night at VTdotNET as our first INETA event of 2005.

There have been a lot of arguments in Blogs and elsewhere lately about SOA and two themes seem to emerge from some: SOA is bogus because there is a lot of hype around it and SOA is bogus because it’s nothing new. We will dispose of both of those arguments early in showing that SOA is a real and excellent way to build loosely coupled, distributed systems despite being over hyped beyond belief There are parts that are not new but what is different is clear focus on services as DISTINCT from objects. After looking at what SOA and SO are, we will looking at how to implement services using WSE3 and .NET 2.0 on the Microsoft platform. The culmination of this approach of course is Indigo and now that Indigo is public we will take a deep dive into Indigo. All throughout, we will focus on a practical approach with simple code demos to reinforce the concepts.

Although I have had conversations in the past with Tim, Dr. Neil and Rob about speaking at VTdotNet this year, I have managed to (nearly) lock them in while at TechEd. Yahoo! Now I have the rest of the year covered (with December being our christmas party). I realize that I have got all of our INETA events piled into this half of the year!

surely this is everywhere on the blogosphere, but I want to be sure to push it to the VTdoNET site!

Paul Flessner announced the official release date for VS 2005 – Nov 7th.

According to Mark Fussell, the program manager for WSE, WSE3.0 will be out somewhere in the 4-5 timeframe after VS2005e is released.

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This month, VTdotNET is starting something new: .NET Newbie sessions. It is in response to my ponderings about how to deal with the widening knowledge gap in the user group. So I am really excited that this is starting. The first session is this month at our June 13th meeting. Laura Blood, from Blue Note Computing will present on “Object Oriented Programming in .NET – How to Build and Use Objects”.

Then, for the main session, we will depart from Object Oriented program in it’s entirety (just a coincidence) as Sam Gentile presents on SOA and Indigo. Sam is coming as an INETA speaker!

I just this moment realized the irony in that!

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Microsoft Tech·Ed 2005 is sold out but you can still explore Microsoft technologies and solutions in this series of webcasts. Join us through the end of May for pre-Tech·Ed webcasts, then tune in for a special week of webcasts June 5-10, 2005, as we simulcast 12 sessions live from Orlando, Florida.

Also, stay tuned for our live “best of” Tech·Ed 2005 webcasts this fall, as we highlight some of the most popular sessions from the event.

[from the TechEd website]

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In January, I got very excited about Soma’s announcement that Microsoft was finally going to update the ancient bitmaps…

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The INETA Spring Thaw mailing arrived today. In it, along with some great swag, was enough sets of VSTS 2005 Beta2 installs for me to distribute to most of my user group! I’m sure that some people have already downloaded from MSDN or ordered from the www.GetTheBetas.com website, but this will get everyone covered now. Of course, I spent 20+ hours downloading cause I couldn’t wait. I already changed the website for our next meeting to let them know. Thanks INETA!!

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