August 2004 Entries
Download the latest .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack from Microsoft.
Vinod Kumar has put together an impressive list of .NET compilers from Ada to VB.
Eric Nelson has good news for anyone planning on migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2005 in the future. Snapshot isolation
Angel Saenz-Badillos has a FAQ for anyone experiencing “timeout expired” error messages with ADO.NET pooled connections.
Shawn Farkas is debunking myths about Assert.
Eric Wise has some code allowing users to download an Outlook appointment from an ASP.NET form.
We have some gmail invites - the first 6 people who leave a comment can have them. Uppdate : ALL GONE!!!!
Scott Hanselman presents a list of ASP.NET interview questions he uses.
Jeffrey Palermo outlines how he tracks down memory leaks in managed code.
Bertrand Le Roy has 6 rules to avoid injection attacks.
Girish Bharadwaj shares some registry tweaks you can use to make searches from IE's address bar easy.
Gunnar Kudrjavets describes why a source control system is not a recycle bin or a backup repository.
Fritz Onion links to a new wiki page containing his article on building ASP.NET applications without using the Web Project wizard of the IDE. The web project Visual Studio creates by default limits your flexibility when solutions need to move or new projects join the solution. See how to build a web application using a class library project.
Rick Strahl has some code and debugging tips for those trying to build an Add-In for Visual Studio.
If you want some insight into the minds of two talented developers and authors, read James Avery's post and Scott Mitchell's post about their thoughts on becoming independent software contractors.
Alan Dean shows how to use SQL Server's CONVERT function to stop exceptions when using the DateTime Parse function on a stored procedure resultset.
Microsof't BCL team gives an in-depth description on the importance of closing a StreamReader object.
Tony Chor provides a high level description of architectural and user experienece changes made to Internet Explorer in XP SP2.
Jim Arnold debunks some of the popular myths he sees in .NET discussion forms.
Chris Taylor shows some performance test results for string comparisons.
Read Robert McLaw's insightful opinions on the newly released service pack for XP.
Bertrand Le Roy explains how you can lose your session variables by using Response.Redirect at the wrong time.
Dana Epp reviews the book Threat Modeling from Microsoft Press.