Lot's of stuff in the news this week:

• The Enterprise Library has arrived! Seven reusable application blocks from the patterns and practices group at Microsoft.
• Casey beats CAPTCHA.
• Rick Brewster on Writing For Concurrency.
• Kirk Viehland is not happy with SQL Server Reporting Services.
• Peter Jones has a SQL Reporting Preview Window built with PrintDocument.
• Adam Machanic has a comprehensive post about dealing with large bitmasks in SQL Server. Be sure to follow the links in the feedback for part II.
• Microsoft Architects JOURNAL #4
• SP1 for BizTalk 2004 is out.

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• Bid at the .NET charity auction.
• JavaWorld has the code for a SQL Server Reporting Services Java Proxy! (via Daniel)
• Safecracking for the computer scientist.
• Another advanced hiding technique from Robert Hensing: The mystery of the trojaned Winlogon.exe.
• Batch Compilation, Recompilation, and Plan Caching Issues in SQL Server 2005 (via Adam).
• MSDN Magazine has a new article on writing a rendering extension for Reporting Services.
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Tools v 1.0 available for download (includes log parser and metabase explorer!)
• XML Options In SQL Server 2005 (via Kent).
• How to sysprep a virtual machine.

• Scott Swigart: Why Microsoft will have to change the way it writes software.
• James Snape: Uniqueidentifiers as Primary Key Columns.
• Robert Hensing uncovers an insidious file hiding technique.
• Eric Lippert: Benford's Law.
• Raymond Chen demonstrates why exceptions are hard.
• Tim Weaver writes an FxCop rule to enforce an internal coding standard on database connection usage.

• Roy Osherove releases the source code to The Regulator (RegEx tool).
• Drew Robbins covers the surge in client-side scripting.
• Patrick Barnes: An Overview Of Visual C# 2005.
• Brad Abrams makes the first post from his 64 bit machine.  
• Rico Mariani: Performance Quiz #5.

• Microsoft launches the beta version of an AntiSpyware tool. (via G. Andrew Duthie).
• John Wood on The Unnecessary Complexity of Good Design.
• Larry Osterman continues an interesting thread of conversation on Win32 fibers.
• Tara Dugan has a Reporting Services Tip on using scripts and rs.exe to deploy reports to a server.
• Kaisa has a safe function to display percentages in a report.