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Last week, I posted something about Datetime format and SQL, something to help SQL understand any international date format.

Well Jerry Pisk is right, his method is shorter. Use Mydate.ToString("yyyyMMdd"). Short and efficient.

Now just a note to Jerry: no need to use a bossy tone to explain something ! We all learn every day :-)

Hitachi has put on a page the noises you can hear from a crashing hard drive.

Very stressful and some are not recommended as ringtones :-)

Paul Vick reply to the question “isn't C# the language that's most 'native' to the .NET environment?”

Two weeks ago, I posted something about the book below (don't search for it, it's not released)

I have difficulties to tweak the pool application in IIS 6. I try to improve the performances of my different websites.

Most of the time, when I get a lot of requests, the worker process stall with a CPU use of 98%.
So I was quite confident that setting a pool with a CPU monitoring could sove the problem.

Nope, it's worst becuase if I activate this feature, I end up with a lot of Service Unavailable from IIS.

By the way, does somebody knows how to create a custom error page for this kind of behavior ? It's not managed by IIS as a typical 500 server error, so I am not sure how to handle this.

Thanks to Stefano Demiliani for this info on DBDesigner, a free tool to help designing a database.

Another new wave of blog spam has just started Be aware

grrrr :-(

Reusable framework for creating games using the .NET Compact Framework