Microsoft .NET 
How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET(6)
URL rewriting is the practice publishing a cleaner URL for your ASP.NET pages. There are many reasons you might want to do this, including search engine optimization and human readability. Search engines actively try to ascertain information about the contents of a page based on the URL, and providing common keywords in it will increase your page ranking. This article will show you how to use URL rewriting to hide your ugly URL while retaining the power and structure of your existing ASP.NET application by using URL rewriting.
Introducing Microsoft Web Platform Installer
On March 18th, Microsoft released Web Platform Installer 2.0. The Web Platform Installer is a small utility you can use to download, install, and maintain your Microsoft Web Platform applications. This includes Internet Information Services (Microsoft's web server), or IIS, MS SQL Server Express, Silverlight 3 Visual Studio tools, and much more. Like the ASP.NET MVC release, the Web Platform Installer (or Web PI) release was announced at Mix '09. Again, good timing here on Microsoft's part that allowed them to get this beta version out to lots of people that will be downloading new stuff. In this article, I give a full review of my user experience with Web PI 2.0 beta, including screenshots.
ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0 Released
Today, Phil Haack reported that the ASP.NET MVC framework has been officially moved out of beta status and released to the world. It's good timing, too. If you're like me, you were waiting for the beta to end before really getting into ASP.NET MVC because you were afraid that each release would break your projects. Well, I guess its time to really dive in and I'm excited to do it. Read this article for more information and the download link.
Fading Images Together using C#
In this article, I show how to "fade" or "blend" together two images using C#. We use the System.Drawing package (mostly the Bitmap class) to extract the individual pixels of two images, and then perform a weighted average to construct a new image. The whole thing is wrapped up in a Windows Forms project. Source code and a Windows binary are provided.