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Via Somasgear:

I am excited to announce that as of 6pm, Nov 19, the Developer Division hit the ‘Zero Bug Bounce’ (ZBB) milestone for Beta2 of Visual Studio 2005... we are entering the most important phase of the Whidbey product cycle, the Security Push... We have a lot of work to do – threat models, code reviews, annotations, and penetration testing to name a few... We are on target to deliver the most compelling Visual Studio ever

Is this a first? A major company leaking an announcement to a blogger? Jim McKeeth got the first notice that there'll be a Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference in 2005.

I went to the one in 2003 in LA. Very cool... I still have the Longhorn, Whidbey and Yukon bits they released (I wonder if these will be collector's items?) - as well as my C# book, signed by the father of C#: Anders Hejlsberg. Heh.

I'm not sure what they'll cover yet... but my guess is VS 2005... which is due in the Feb/March timeframe if I recall correctly; with SQL 2005 due shortly thereafter. But I thought that PDCs were for vaporware, not shipping software... so hopefully there will be discussions of Longhorn, the shift to 64bit computing and .NET 3.0. ;o)

PDC 2005

Recently a customer asked me if I could make the enter/return button select the next control on a web page.

Scott Watermasysk wrote an article on how to intercept the enter button from within a textbox. So, with very little effort, I imagine that I could I give the customer the capability to intercept that finicky enter button and make it work like the tab key. But should I? It seems counter intuitive to all Web UIs. I doubt I will do it, and I truly was shocked that anyone would request this... perhaps they wanted it work like Excel? lol