<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><FONT color=#000000>Recently I was having a conversation with some colleagues of mine from Microsoft when I confessed that often I am more confused by the code names of the software products than I am by the technology. </

Wow. This is big news. If you have not heard it yet, well, its all over the web, the papers and TV. Here is a link at CNET [http://news.com.com/Gates+stepping+down+from+full-time+Microsoft+role/2100-1014_3-6084396.html?tag=nefd.top] , one at Robert Scoble's blog [http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/

As I mentioned late last week [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2006/05/27/145625.aspx], I'll be presentingUsing System.Transactions in .NET 2.0 [http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Va

TheNovember 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/11/default.aspx]is now posted online. My latest Data Points [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/11/DataPoints/] column revisits System.Transactions and its features. You can read the article online here [h

Sahil Malik [http://blah.winsmarts.com/] is holding a 1 day training session on ADO.NET 2 [http://blah.winsmarts.com/2006/06/06/announcing-the-adonet-20-boot-camp.aspx]. Its titled “The ADO.NET 2 Boot Camp [http://blah.winsmarts.com/2006/06/06/announcing-the-adonet-20-boot-camp.aspx]”  and you can r