Now - after support for ASP.NET 2.0 with MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 - has officially been announced lets have a short look on the new features coming with ASP.NET 2.0 and how they might give benefits to a MCMS site. Master Pages One of the key selling...

[This article has been replaced with a new improved version .] As outlined in the article I posted yesterday ASP.NET 2.0 provides new concepts to implement site navigation based on new server controls and the Site Map Provider concept. The controls...

Chester needs to get the credits for the findings in the following blog as he pointed me to this specific behaviour! MCMS does not have a documented method to identify if the current user is a MCMS administrator or not. But there is a very easy way...

Even without MCMS SP2 being available you can already evaluate ASP.NET 2.0 with MCMS! You cannot use it on a read-write website as webauthor does not yet work with ASP.NET 2.0 but you can configure a website that is configured with ASP.NET 2.0 as MCMS...

I played around with master pages on my ASP.NET 2.0 MCMS web site (see here for details on how to setup such a site). My findings are that on a read-only website MCMS Placeholder controls work fine as well on the master page and on the content page...

As mentioned by Arpan there are no plans to support ASP.NET Web Parts with MCMS with SP2. Anyway, today I took some minutes to play around with the web parts using my ASP.NET 2.0 site (see here for details on how to setup such a site) and at least...

Laks has posted a very good summary on how to implement host header mapping for authoring and production in the newsgroup which I would like to share with all of you: I had gone through some trouble in figuring out this need. With help...

[Via Mark Harrison ] Microsoft has introduced tabbed browsing to its existing Internet Explorer 6 browser ... the facility comes with the new MSN Search Toolbar made available this week. To download the toolbar look here: http://toolbar.msn.com...

Today I received a question on the newsgroup about what the different steps of the background processing job are doing as this is not properly documented. Here is the list of all the steps and what they are doing: Step 1) Process expired postings...

[Via Arpan Shah ] At TechEd Orlando Skelta , announced that they are providing a lite version of their workflow product with seamless integration with MCMS. You will be able to run 25 concurrent workflow processes at any given time - which should be...

[via Andrew Connell ] Andrew Connell is currently at TechEd in Orlando and had a chance to attend the MCMS session from Arpan Shah who announced interesting information about MCMS: MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2: Expect this to be released after the ...

Arpan has added a blog entry with additional and more official details on the future of MCMS: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/06/08/426910.aspx

Chester has created a nice summary on state changes during approval based on the MCMS documentation: http://chestermr.blogspot.com/2005/06/posting-state-change-by-approval.html

Just in case someone is wondering why questions in the newsgroup are not answered by me next week: I'm enjoying a one week vacation with my girlfriend Michaela in Cervia (Italy).