In SYS-CON's annual round-up of technology predictions, Joshua Allen, a Microsoft Senior Evangelist, issues a worrisome warning: 'Disparity between bandwidth haves and have-nots will grow. Net neutrality will take an even worse beating in 2008 than 2007.' Other predictions come form: Sun's Tim Bray; Dr Adam Kolawa, Parasoft; Eric Newcomer, IONA Technologies; Bill Roth, BEA Systems; Brad Abrams, Microsoft; Kevin Hoffman, iPhone Developer's Journal; Ian Thain, Sybase; and Yakov Fain, Farata Systems. More info

If you want to create your own professional looking tabs and controls in Office, check out the RibbonX API of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. More info

In this video, Todd Miranda shows you some of the handy features available for debugging applications in Visual Studio 2008. More info

Documentation Compilers for Managed Class Library Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle enables Microsoft teams customers to efficiently produce Help documentation for products. Sandcastle ships as a standalone download and as a part of the Visual Studio SDK. The Sandcastle engine’s modular design provides many extensibility points that allow users to customize it for different product needs. More info

Here Brian Randell presents everything you need to know to get started with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals. More info

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 continues Microsoft’s investment in market leading development tools. Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customers and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. More info

Learn how to define Lambda Expressions that perform an action without a return value. More info

Developers are increasingly working on systems that abstract the underlying mechanisms they depend upon. SharePoint was the catalyst for this observation as I increasingly see development implementations that just don't seem to work out as hoped, with misunderstandings or in some cases bugs causing the issues. More info

The court charged with policing Microsoft's 2002 antitrust settlement with the US government has extended its oversight of the company until November of 2009, an additional two years. Most of the watchdogs were supposed to be called off this past November. However, late last year 10 states led by California and New York that were party to the original suit asked Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to extend the supervision of Microsoft until 2012. More info

The CLR allows seamless interactions between Microsoft .NET applications and COM. But how, exactly? The CLR team is here to tell you. More info