Visual Studio 2005 Competition

Thanks to everyone that entered the Visual studio competition, all the entries were great. I hope that you all managed to learn something and host of all enjoyed yourself. I would love to show you all the entries however due to time/resource limitation I have only uploaded one of the entries.

The page was made by Jonathon, and thank you for letting me share it with everyone. For anyone that is interested the site was built using ASP.Net 2.0 and atlas, the new June Atlas release is out.

TechNet and MSDN Flash

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Windows Vista

I recently installed windows, it looks cool and my computer runs a lot faster, with the upgrade from a 32 bit version of windows XP to the 64 bit version. However like with any beta it crashed once for me when I was installing drivers. That however could be I am having problems finding 64 bit drivers for a couple of my secondary hardware(webcam, TV tuner, and finger print reader). The most surprising of this is that the finger print reader is a MS product, and they haven't put any 64 bit driver for it.

But the speed increase more than makes up for the increased amount of alpha blending. They have packaged a new search into the task bar, which is fast compared to the old find documents. There is also windows gadgets that have been introduced on the side bar of the window. This has removed the necessity of using third party desk top searches and custom add-ons.

Also they have a cool new scrolling/tabbing feature which will its really not needed and over the top is just cool! Now if anyone has some decent 64bit video codecs please tell me where I can get them

New webpage

Hi everyone,

as a tribute to procrastination 2006 I've put up a new atlas powered webpage at http://aspspider.org/alex699/. Hope have a play around with the with the two data control objects they are both database powered. Also the maroon rectangle is is movable, however don't move it below the bottom control on the page as it can't go below it.

If anyone is interested I can send you the files for this page and the other pages that I've put up previously.

New possible web server

Hi I'm interested in how many people would be interested in getting a webserver that will run ASP.net, SQL server2005 and IIS 6? I am looking to get something that can be used by students for educational purposes So if your interested or would like to help if I can get something to materialize please contact me.