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.NET Enterprise Services Performance

Sunday, June 27, 2004
.NET General .Net Performance
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On March 2004 an atricle about .NET Enterprise Services Performance was published on msdn in this article you can see the performance of native COM+ and .NET Enterprise Services components when applied to different activation and calling patterns. Get guidelines to make .NET Enterprise Services components execute just as quickly as C++ COM+ components, and get key recommendations to help you create high-performance .NET Enterprise Service components

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MSDN Managed Discussion Groups

Saturday, June 26, 2004
.NET General Great Sites

MSDN Managed Discussion Groups search engine is available here

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Microsoft Script Center

Saturday, June 26, 2004
Great Sites Operating System
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The Script Center categorizes the best sample scripts designed to run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Scripts are organized by their use, and there is also information about scripting tools and resources.

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Fabriq 1.0.4173.4 Released !!!

Saturday, June 26, 2004
.NET General .Net Performance Architecture
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FABRIQ is a general purpose infrastructure for building fast and scalable networks of autonomous nodes for processing and relaying messages. A node is an implementation of a processing pipeline composed of reusable primitive message processing units and/or special purpose message processing units. These processing units consume, act and/or produce new messages as a result of performing their work. Nodes communicate with each other through message queues and they can be organized into queuing networks.

Clemens Vasters, Eugenio Pace, an enthusiastic development team in Argentina and newtelligence A.G. and Arvindra Sehmi Microsoft's architect have spent the last six months building this system because they've seen the fundamental architectural principles behind FABRIQ working incredibly well in a number of real customer applications. Those systems needed to scale dramatically, on-demand and process messages very rapidly indeed with minimum latency and fuss.

What they've done is taken some of those ideas and create what is essentially a reusable framework which incorporates many "modern" ideas about how to build systems that scale and process messages incredibly quickly whilst being acutely aware of the need to adhere to emerging messaging standards, in particular the WS-* standards.

Over on Fabriq's new GotDotNet Workspace you can learn about the architecture of FABRIQ by working through sample configurations and in various simple scenarios. You can download the FABRIQ runtime, design docs and more. Some hands-on labs posted to get you going easily.

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Teched 2004 Presentation

Saturday, June 26, 2004
.NET General Great Sites
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Like last year's pdc presentations... Teched 2004 presentations + voice will be available soon here
Everyday more and more presentations are being added to the site so keep on waiting...

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Events and Errors Message Center

Saturday, June 26, 2004
Great Sites Operating System Reporting Services
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There are so many times when you see some error in the event logs and don't know what exactly caused the error as the description isn't clear enough... well this is for you !

Microsoft's Events and Errors Message Center lets you enter Event Source and Event ID and get a detailed explanations, recommended user actions, and links to additional support and resources.

Currently the events and errors center supports the following applications:

Windows Server 2003
Windows XP Home/Professional
Windows 2000 Professional/Server
BizTalk Server 2004
Exchange 2000 Server
Exchange Server 2003
Host Integration Server 2004
Microsoft Office
SQL Server Notification Services
SQL Server Reporting Services

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Testing .Net Application Blocks Guide

Friday, June 25, 2004
MS Application Blocks
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Microsoft patterns and practices test team is currently working on developing guidance focusing on testing .NET application blocks.

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Data Access Application Block 3.1

Friday, June 25, 2004
MS Application Blocks
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The official release of DAAB 3.1 is available from GotDotNet DAAB Workshop.

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Performance diagnostic tool for Windows Server 2003

Friday, June 25, 2004
.Net Performance
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Server Performance Advisor V1.0
Performance diagnostic tool for Windows Server 2003

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Reporting Services - needed security permissions

Friday, June 25, 2004
Reporting Services
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When you install Reporting Services the installation will grant aspnet account several security permissions.
There are time when you want to run under different account say for security reasons, you will have to add the following permissions to the new account in order for Reporting Services to function.

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In-memory XML Schema validation without re-parsing

Friday, June 25, 2004
.NET General
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Daniel Cazzulino posted in his WebLog how to save more then 60% of the XML schema validation time using XPath NavigatorReader.

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A Good Interview Question

Friday, June 25, 2004

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Dave Burke has a nice post regarding A Good Interview Question ...

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MSDN TV: Whiteboard with Anders Hejlsberg

Friday, June 25, 2004
.NET General
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At Tech·Ed 2004, Anders Hejlsberg gave an informal talk, answered attendee questions, and wrote some code examples on the whiteboard.

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Event Log Monitoring with RSS

Friday, June 25, 2004
.NET General
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Greg Reinacker created code to generate a RSS feed from the Windows Event Logs

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Calling Code Dynamically

Wednesday, June 23, 2004
.NET General .Net Performance
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On February 5, 2004 Eric Gunnerson, Program Manager on the Visual C#, published an article on msdn where he explores the performance aspects of various methods of calling code dynamically.

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Reporting Services Security model

Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Reporting Services
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For a brief summary of the Rosetta Security model check the following articles :

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Microsoft Security Links

Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Security
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Getting Started
Best Practices
Columns
.NET Framework Security
Application Security
Windows Security
Web Services Security
Threat Modeling
Privacy
Rights Management
Deployment
- .NET Framework Enterprise Security Policy Administration and Deployment
- Return of the Rich Client: Code Access Security and Distribution Features in .NET Enhance Client-Side Apps
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SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services For The Impatient

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

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Kent Tegels gave a talk to the Kansas City .NET Special Interest Group titled
"SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services For The Impatient"

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SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 1 - Released

Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Reporting Services
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Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Reporting Services includes bug fixes, performance enhancements, and some functional enhancements was release today !

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Obsufcation file collection

Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Security
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Check out this nice obsufcation file collection...

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How to loop through all files in a folder using C#

Tuesday, June 22, 2004
C#
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Someone asked me how to loop through all the files in a folder...
well just a quick sample recursive solution...

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Authorization Manager by Keith Brown

Sunday, June 20, 2004
Security
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Using Authorization Manager in Windows Server 2003 you can define roles and the tasks those roles can perform. You can nest roles to inherit characteristics from other roles, and you can define application groups. In addition, you use scripts to modify permissions dynamically, and it allows you to wrap your security logic in a security policy that can be stored in Active Directory.

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WS-Security

Sunday, June 20, 2004
.NET General Security
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On April 2003 David Chappell published an article on MSDN Magazine regarding WS-SECURITY - New Technologies Help You Make Your Web Services More Secure

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Reporting Services - Hebrew Webcast

Sunday, June 20, 2004
Reporting Services Webcasts
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For all the Hebrew speaking persons over there.... Yinon Nadav Bi Manager at Microsoft Israel gave an Introduction to reporting services webcast in Hebrew a week ago.

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Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now

Sunday, June 20, 2004
.NET General
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James Avery published in July 2004 MSDN Magazin the following article :

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NGenLib: .Net Generics Library

Saturday, June 19, 2004
.NET General C#
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NGenLib is a free .Net library written in C# with an STL-like design that offers generic data structures, algorithms and utility classes.

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Freeware SQL-Server administration tool

Saturday, June 19, 2004
Databases
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The solution is Visendo SQL-Admin. With this freeware tool which is built on the .NET Platform, you can administrate your SQL-Server or MSDE very comfortable.

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Implementing .Net method timeout

Saturday, June 19, 2004
.NET General C#
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There are times when you want to do some kind of operation and set a timeout to it… say after 20 sec if there isn't an answer let me know… naturally if this operation is a database operation you have the connection or command timeout property that you can set but what if you are dealing with some operation that you don’t have such property or maybe you don’t even have control of…. such as 3^rd party components.

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Performance modelling of distributed systems

Saturday, June 19, 2004
.Net Performance
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Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0

Thursday, June 17, 2004
.NET General Security
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MSDN Webcast: MSDN Events: Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0 - Level 200
July 9, 2004
9:00AM-10:30AM Pacific Time

If you develop Web services, you’ll want to find out how Microsoft’s Web Services Enhancements 2.0 (WSE 2.0) can make your life easier as a developer. WSE 2.0 provides advanced Web services capabilities, including a policy framework, enhanced security model, message-oriented programming model, and support for multiple hosting environments. This webcast will show how to leverage these powerful features in WSE 2.0 and will focus primarily on security.

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BizTalk Server 2004: WSE 2.0 and SQL Reporting Services

Thursday, June 17, 2004
.NET General Reporting Services Security
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Fighting unwanted e-mail (spam)

Thursday, June 17, 2004

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CAS and Design Patterns

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

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Maxim V. Karpov wrote a nice article in his blog about Code Access Security (CAS) and Design Patterns.

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Who is Locking my file ???

Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Tools
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Have you ever tried to copy a DLL and had an "Access Denied" or "Shared Violation" error? Did you have to reboot everytime you needed to upgrade a DLL?

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Microsoft Word MVP FAQ

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

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Are you using Microsoft Word ?
Have you ever felt the need to get an answer about Microsoft word ?

Well here it is Microsoft Word MVP FAQ ... Great place to start looking for answers about MS Word.

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Design Pattern Code Library

Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Architecture C#
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Some more material for the starter architect....

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How to make your website work with XP SP2

Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Operating System
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Does your website use Microsoft ActiveX® controls?
Does your website allow users to download files?
Does your site use pop-up windows?
Does your website depend on the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM)?
Does your website use HTML dialogs?

If you have answered yes to any of the questions above be sure to check up
How to make your web site work with Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
as things might stop working as you'll install XP SP2.

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N-Tier Application Development with Microsoft.NET

Tuesday, June 15, 2004
.NET General Architecture
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While googling for something... i found out series of articles exploring the world of n-tier architecture in terms of the Microsoft .NET platform and associated framework.

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TechEd 2004 - Hands On Lab Manuals available to the public

Monday, June 14, 2004
.NET General Great Sites
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Barry Gervin posted last week in his WebLog list of links to directories containing
TechEd 2004 Labs.

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Understanding Microsoft’s .net Caching Application Block

Sunday, June 13, 2004
.NET General MS Application Blocks
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The Caching Application Block is an extensible platform for caching purpose that supports multiple deployment scenarios.

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Recursive SQL User Defined Functions

Sunday, June 13, 2004
Databases
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Patrick Santry, Microsoft MVP explains how to build Recursive SQL User Defined Functions

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.Net Code Samples By Namespace

Sunday, June 13, 2004
.NET General Great Sites
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I love EggHeadCafe because there are so many great articles over there.

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Check Boxes for Reporting Services Reports

Saturday, June 12, 2004
Reporting Services
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Reporting Services offers a wonderful array of reporting features, but surprisingly leaves out one important feature you find in most other reporting tools: check boxes !

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Moving Reporting Services Virtual Directories

Saturday, June 12, 2004
Reporting Services
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During install Reporting Services uses two Virtual Directories. Currently, these directories can be installed only in the "Default Web Site" site, there is no mechanism in the setup program to change the target Web site.

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Erland Sommarskog's - Texts on SQL

Saturday, June 12, 2004
Databases
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After my last post I took a closer look at Erland Sommarskog home page and found some other articles worth reading :

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Arrays and Lists in SQL Server

Saturday, June 12, 2004
Databases
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Erland Sommarskog - SQL Server MVP wrote a great article about using Arrays and Lists in SQL Server.

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Using BlogJet to blog.

Friday, June 11, 2004
Tools
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Today I've decided to check BlogJet , weblog client for Windows that allows you to manage your blog without opening browser. It is easy-to-use and elegant, after very simple setup procedure where you have the choose your bloging engine from nice list of supported blogs:

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Asking Questions ... Read This First !

Friday, June 11, 2004

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Something amazing me everyday are question I'm being asked that are answered in the first results page your getting while querying search engines (mostly goolge)

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Large email boxes alternatives

Friday, June 11, 2004

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Mischa Kroon lists in his last WebLog post some of the large email boxes alternatives
Thanks Mischa !

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WOW ! - WSE 2.0 Tracing Utility

Thursday, June 10, 2004
.NET General Security
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Mike Taulty's published in his WebLog WSE 2.0 Tracing Utility

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Keith Brown - a .net developer's guide to Windows security

Thursday, June 10, 2004
.NET General Security
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Keith Brown Master of security has one of his books online “a .net developer's guide to Windows security”

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WSE 2.0 Related Articles

Thursday, June 10, 2004
.NET General Security
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SecureCoder, Anil John has published not long ago these WSE 2.0 Related Articles list which is a great startup to know that is WSE and how to use it.
- Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwse/html/programwse2.asp
  Take advantage of the support for Web services policy, Windows-integrated Kerberos security, addressing, and new messaging models in Web Services Enhancements 2.0.
- Using WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/understanding/specs/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/ws-trustandsecureconv.asp
  Learn about recent updates to the WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation specifications. This article includes information on issuing security tokens, establishing secure sessions, and using derived keys.
There are also a couple of hands-on labs that are available:
- Hands on Lab: Web Services Security and Policy with Web Services Enhancements 2.0
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/A/A/7AA994A0-98E1-42CC-A527-0FE1B49DEB40/HOL-WSE-Security.EXE
  Learn how to secure Web services without writing code, how to author security policies, and how to leverage the WSE programming model to secure you Web services. Extract the project files to a local directory to get started.
- Hands on Lab: Web Services Messaging with Web Services Enhancements 2.0
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/9/B/C9B866B0-0787-4CA7-8A5B-92DE75CD7F99/HOL-WSE-Messaging.EXE
  Learn how to use WSE’s lightweight Web service messaging infrastructure, do basic one-way and request/response messaging over multiple transports, and build your own peer to peer instant messaging program. Extract the project files to a local directory to get started
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.Net Community Sites

Thursday, June 10, 2004
.NET General Great Sites
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Original .Net Community Sites was taken from asp.net
(More and more sites are being added... Thanks for the comments !)

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Outlook Time and Task Manager Add-In

Thursday, June 10, 2004
Tools
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Outlook allows you to itemize your workload, to create a task (or ToDo) list. Listing tasks is a good way to remember them, but it doesn't create a plan for effectively getting them done. You have no idea when anything will get finished, what your priorities are, or whether you can deliver work by the required dates. A lack of information results in mistakes and confusion, and a lack of control leads to stress.

This is where Taskline can help. By automatically scheduling your task list, it maps out your future workload, defining dates for deliverables and checking that deadlines are reasonable. Taskline puts you in the driving seat.

http://www.taskline.info/taskline.asp

I was looking for such a tool for a long time... And its great !

Ohad

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SharePoint WebParts For Reporting Services

Thursday, June 10, 2004
C# Reporting Services
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Are you interested in collection of SharePoint WebParts that integrate with SQL Server Reporting Services ?

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Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.0 - BETA

Thursday, June 10, 2004

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The Microsoft® Office Information Bridge Framework is a set of software components, tools, and prescriptive guidance that enable developers to create solutions that connect Microsoft Office System applications to virtually any enterprise system or application

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Patterns & Practices Webcasts ... I was looking for a list like that...

Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Webcasts
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I was looking for a list of all Pag's webcasts, somewhere I could point a client and tell him here you can surf and learn good stuff...

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MSDN TV - Great Place for insights and to meet the people behind the products

Wednesday, June 9, 2004
C# Reporting Services Webcasts
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MSDN TV is a short weekly video featuring useful technology tips and insights from the behind-the-scenes folks at Microsoft. Tune in to stay in-the-know with MSDN TV.

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Patterns & Practices Test Driven Development Webcast

Wednesday, June 9, 2004
C# Webcasts

Test-Driven Development (TDD) - Driving software development with automated tests.

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Microsoft's Script Center

Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Operating System
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The Script Center categorizes the best sample scripts designed to run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Scripts are organized by their use, and there is also information about scripting tools and resources.

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C# Language Specification Updated

Tuesday, June 8, 2004
C#
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Eric Gunnerson's reports on his bLog that C# Language Specification Updated

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Using Smart Card with C#

Tuesday, June 8, 2004
C# Security
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I was looking for a way to use GemPlus 433 Smart card reader through C# and thought it shouldn't be hard to find some samples... after security these days is a main business issue to all of us.

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Reporting Services - Links

Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Reporting Services
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As i've been using Reporting Services for some time now several pepole asked me where they can get demos and extentions to some of its features.
Here are some great samples i've found... i will try to gather a storage place and add some of my own too.

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.Net Performance

Tuesday, June 8, 2004
.Net Performance C#
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Nick Wienholt regularly writes atricles for Australian Developer Magazine, you can catch some of his articles at his site

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