The 5th MSRS CTP is available here. You can find out what is new here, some of the highlights are security support for your service nodes, simulation improvements and optimizations and a new DSS deployment tool. W00t.

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About damn time...

"The goal of this pilot is to provide you with direct access to the most requested hotfixes that are produced for our developer tools. A hotfix is a single package that includes one or more files that is used to address a very specific customer problem with a product. You’ll find a description and download links below for the most frequently requested hotfixes for the Visual Studio 2005 suite of products."

Hopefully this gets rolled out soon to cover all hotfixes for all developer products...

[Via Frans Bouma]

* DevDiv = Microsoft's developer division.

Here at Red Five we are starting our final push towards V1 and we are looking for some extra hands on deck to help us. If you are a self-motivated, enthusiastic developer/tester/student (in the Johannesburg, South Africa area (or willing to relocate)) who is looking for a change & a challenge then why not come around and take a look at what we are doing and see if you would be interested in joining the team?

There are a lot of benefits to working in a tech start-up - especially one with as much promise as Red Five Labs. I left the corporate enterprise for this place back in February and I don't think I would ever choose to go back! If you are keen then contact me via my blog or contact us directly and lets have a chat...

I have started an MSRS wiki here, please feel free to use it and to add any interesting and relevant information that you come across.

I am also happy to host any other tech-related wiki namespaces that people are interested in creating. If you would like one created for a topic that you are passionate about, please let me know.

If you would like to embed YouTube videos in a blog post on dotnet.org.za, all you need to do is add a tag at the place in the post you would like to embed the video with the following format (leave out the + signs):

[+YouTube+:+videoID+]

When you publish the post the tag will automagically be replaced by the video with the videoID you specified. The id of the video can be grabbed from its URL, ie http://youtube.com/watch?v=NFlRkqv6upE has a videoID of NFlRkqv6upE.

See an example of the end result here. 

[ This feature has been implemented locally by Armand using Scott Watermasysk's YouTube CSModule. Thanks guys!]