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Visual Studio.NET 2005 Crashes On Startup!

This morning my Box had slowed down quite a bit and I decided to clean it up. Basically, I hopped to Add / Remove Programs screen and started picking the stuff I didn't need. Of the list of Items I removed were: Azerus - a bulky Bit Torrent Client (which I had not replaced with BitLord). Adobe Photo Album - that abode had just fooled me into installing when I installed Acrobat reader. Windows Work Flow Foundation - this was an early Beta Release that I had downloaded to play around with but wasn't...
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Reinventing the wheel

I am by means no expert to be writing on this topic but I've had this conversation with SO MANY different people (developers / clients / Project Managers) on this topic and everyone seems to have a slightly different opinion and stand. So, I feel I should take my stand on this topic as well. A HIGHLY opinionated one – that is. Of course, other’s who read this may / may not beg to differ. The Question – “To develop or Re-Use?” There are times when I need to write design...
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Question on Membership Providers

I've been working with Membership Providers for quite some time and have gone ahead and used Membership Providers in a few internal project. However, I've just come accross a requirement which is particularly interesting (and Valid, to be honest). Here it goes - The Users need to be authenticated using integrated windows authentication. However, everything other than the authentication (their roles, groups, permissions etc. is maintained seperately in a custom database) and I need to use Membership...
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