Archives
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Web Server Usage Survey and Comparator
Port80 Surveys the Top 1000 Corporations' Web Servers versus Netcraft Web Server Survey. So who's winning?
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Longhorn Review @ CNET
John Morris from CNET recently reviewed Microsoft Windows Longhorn. Its more of a non-developers point-of-view but a good read. John also mentions that the retail market cost of Longhorn will be the same as that of XP (according to Bill Gates). I feel that the cost & the delivery time are two sensitive issues which are by far speculative. What's intriguing is that, of the 300+ people who voted on the site only 50% recommended Longhorn (as of now - ie: Alpha build). Some have even posted their comments (positive or negative). But again, the actual product is atleast 3-4 years away.
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Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon
Rob Davis has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing. [via Siva Rama Krishna]
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PDC Content and Multi-direction Treeview Control
FYI, the entire audio/visual content from PDC 2003 is available online (via Microsoft).
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PDF's on-the-fly and Code in Indigo
iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. iText# is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. It is implemented as an assembly. [via Jay R]
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Refactoring with Whidbey or is it?!?!
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SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
Have you tried the beta release of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services yet? If so, please leave a comment on what you think of it. How does it compare to Crystal Reports 9?
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MySQL Gotchas
Anyone using MySQL as a primary or secondary database system must checkout the MySQL Gotchas (a list of features or functions which work as advertised - but not as expected).
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.NET Tools and BizTalk
A friend from work sent me this list of Companion Tools for .NET development.
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XAML Samples
Dino Esposito provides an overview of Longhorn, focusing on the build-once, deploy n-times application model. In addition, he discusses XAML, that's used to create UI elements, then presents some working samples.
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Network Ports, LCIDs and SQL ParseName
Here's an Excel spreadsheet illustrating network ports used by Microsoft products. The spreadsheet shows what network ports are used by the system services utilized by the Microsoft Windows Server System products.
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Whitepapers written by Googlers
Although not entirely related to .NET, Google Labs has a list of some really interesting whitepapers written by Googlers on stuff like Data Mining, Search Engine Design, Algorithms, File System Design, UI Design, Natural Language Processing and much more.
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Faster Managed Code & Self-Installing Service
Jan Gray from the Microsoft CLR Performance Team wrote a while back on Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost. A very nice article to read.
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xp_dirtree and Dynamic Page Title
The xp_dirtree extended procedure in SQL Server (7.0 and 2000) will list the subdirectories in the specified directory. Usage: EXEC master.dbo.xp_dirtree 'C:\Windows'
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Longhorn Article at CNET News
A new article (special report) on Longhorn and Microsoft's future strategy has been published at CNET News - Is Microsoft's new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, a radical innovation or a return to the company's winner-take-all software strategy from a decade ago?
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Ask a Language Designer
“Have a question about the Visual Basic .NET language? Want to know why the language has or doesn't have a particular feature? Why something was done in a particular way? Where the language might be going? Just enter your question below and your question will be considered for a future blog entry.”
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Why not to use @@identity in TSQL?
Travis Laborde has a great tip on why not to use @@identity in TSQL code and use scope_identity() instead.
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Longhorn Goodies
Thanks to Brad Adams for posting the Longhorn Architecture Diagram and the WinFX Namespace Poster (PDF / JPG). Ofcourse, the details are as we know now (ie: post PDC 2003) and are subject to change in the coming months/years. But its all a good preview of what's under the hood.
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.NET Rocks! Hosted by MSDN
.NET Rocks! now has a mirror repository hosted by MSDN.