If you explicitly set the ASPNET account's password instead of using AutoGenerate in the machine.config file, SP1 has a nasty little suprise in store. J. Ambrose Little describes what happens.

I like to keep my Virtual PC configurations outside of the My Documents folder. Peter Provost found a Microsoft knowledge base article to set a new default home folder. 

Nick Wienholt has a few good arguments in favor of using the DataSet.

Download the latest .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack from Microsoft.

Vinod Kumar has put together an impressive list of .NET compilers from Ada to VB.

Eric Nelson has good news for anyone planning on migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2005 in the future. Snapshot isolation

Angel Saenz-Badillos has a FAQ for anyone experiencing “timeout expired” error messages with ADO.NET pooled connections.