I've a strong desire to become more active in the 'blogsphere' and therefore I'm re-launching this site. 

My focus now will primarily be on the Umbraco CMS product but I will continue to look into Rocky Lhotka's CSLA.NET framework.  Both products are mature stable applications and most importantly for the Small to Medium sized Enterprise (SME) sector that I work in, they are both free or subject to flexible licence agreements.

This site is actually only a temporary one whilst I build an Umbraco version.  :-)  

I've got a couple of nice Umbraco packages to launch soon as well, so watch this space.

Quick tip on how to use CSLA objects on a SQL 2005 Reporting Services instance.

http://forums.lhotka.net/forums/post/13747.aspx 

The long awaited Visual Studio 2008 was finally released to manufacturing yesterday 19th November.

Highlights of the environmnet built upon .NET 3.5, also relased yesterday include.

• Multi-targeting of .NET2.0, .NET3.0 and .NET3.5 all from the same IDE
• Built in AJAX support - no seperate download
• Extensive changes to the web design component which is based on the expression web designer engine.
• Extensive support for CSS developement
• Language improvements
• LINQ - Language Integrated Query - Built-in Object Relation Mapper (OR/M)  - Working with data now as easy as working with a class
• Data access improvements

This really is an exciting update to the already formidable developer toolset.

Scott Gutherie the Program Manager for many .NET technologies at Microsoft including IIS and Visual Studio announces the release of the .NET framework source code.

Whilst it's not quite open source it certainly helps to see how production quality code is written.  It's .NET v3.5 and VS2008 only but it's certainly a start.

Check it out. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx