Sean has blogged about TechEd 05 and I'd like to add my recommendation as well - BOOK NOW!  The early bird gets the you know what.  Judging by the session planning that Chuck has been doing, it's going to be extremely difficult to decide which session I'm going to miss.

I've noticed over the years that when a new version of a product is release (or close to release) I discover features of the old version that I didn't know about - and wish I had known about a long time ago!

I just found an article by Shawn Wildermuth that describes how to annotate dataset schema to alter the generated code.  This is not a new idea, the article is dated March 2003.  Well worth a read if you hate the way null values are treated - especially date fields.  Wish I had know about this in 2003 but I think it still applies to the new stuff.

 

My first Team Build!

I thought it was about time I revamped my old site and in the process get a domain that actually matched my name.