I stumbled across this posting that is a bit old, but provides some very good information on the new Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) feature in ADO.NET 2.0.

From this InformationWeek article...

"Maybe we hyped it up a little bit too much," Microsoft group product manager Greg Sullivan said in an interview before the conference. But "we're set up to pleasantly surprise people who don't have super-high expectations for Longhorn."

A good resource for guidance, training, and information about upcoming webcasts on IIS.

This article on MSNBC is amazing not in just what may be possible, but also in some of the survival stories that were referenced.

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This article provides an interesting read on the split that is going on between the Linux camp and the BitKeeper guys. The views on software, licensing, IP, and reverse engineering are all very interesting and full of "hey, wait a minute" moments. I will leave it to the reader to sniff out the stranger positions taken by some of the folks interviewed.

Do you want to help shape PDC's of the future? Well, here is your chance to provide some direct feedback to the guy that is doing the planning.

I am just throwing this out into the "Great Internet Cloud" in the hopes that there is only six degrees of seperation between myself and the code that I seek. I am looking for a COM or .NET control that allows me to programatically mount/unmount iso images? I have done some quick searches and come up with nothing besides stuff that would let me do command line stuff. Source would be fantastic, freeware really nice, anything better than nothing. Anybody know of such a beast?