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Matthew Osborn is nuts. 
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I do a lot of work with small offices on the side, and consequently I have to write a lot of VBA code.  I tried writing some of that in C# and ended up wrapping the Office Automation interfaces automatically with Visual Studio.NET. Fortunately, Microsoft has released the blessed Microsoft Office Primary Interop Assemblies.  There's also a tutorial which touches on the importances of PIAs in bridging the .NET to COM gap.

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"Web services are like high school sex. Everyone is talking about doing it, but hardly anyone is, and those that are probably aren't doing it well."  - as heard by Dion Almaer
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Lot's of thoughts on Web Services today...it's no because doubt of Chris Sell's upcoming WebServices DevCon

Some great info from Sam Gentile today.  He says:

• Web Services Threat Detection from Greg Reinacker.  Interesting to have your Web Services calls siliently redirected to a "honeypot" for analysis...as with any fraud detection system, false positives would be a problem.
• Server-Side Asynchronous Web Methods
  Matt Powell shows how to make use of asynchronous Web methods on the server side to create high performance Microsoft ASP.NET Web services.

Peter Drayton offers:

• Mayank Prakash's Web services architectures: Easier said than done is a great article.  It is one of the first articles that reminds the layman that SOAP and Web Services are not one and the same.  It mentions a good example services from the W3C that uses the REST Protocol.

Sam also notes that on the .NET tip, NUnit 2.0 was released today and Lamont Adams loves C#:

• NUnit 2.0 Released.
  "This is the second major release of the xUnit based unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET. It is written entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features, for example custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities."
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love C#
  Lamont Adamas: "How I learned to stop worrying and love C#-After arguing for a long time that there's no difference between VB.NET and C#, the author is jumping on the C# bandwagon." 

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