August 2004 - Posts

Monday, August 30, 2004 11:46 PM

.NET 1.1 SP1 Available Now

Download the latest .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack from Microsoft.
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Monday, August 30, 2004 11:45 PM

The List Keeps Growing

Vinod Kumar has put together an impressive list of .NET compilers from Ada to VB.
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Monday, August 30, 2004 11:43 PM

SQL 2005 and Snapshot Isolation

Eric Nelson has good news for anyone planning on migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2005 in the future. Snapshot isolation
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Friday, August 27, 2004 12:09 AM

Connection Pool Timeouts

Angel Saenz-Badillos has a FAQ for anyone experiencing “timeout expired” error messages with ADO.NET pooled connections.
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Friday, August 27, 2004 12:06 AM

Assert Myths

Shawn Farkas is debunking myths about Assert.
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Friday, August 27, 2004 12:04 AM

Create Outlook Appointment Items

Eric Wise has some code allowing users to download an Outlook appointment from an ASP.NET form.

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Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:23 PM

Gmail Invites

We have some gmail invites - the first 6 people who leave a comment can have them.

Uppdate : ALL GONE!!!!
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Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:22 AM

ASP.NET Interview Questions

Scott Hanselman presents a list of ASP.NET interview questions he uses.
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Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:20 AM

Troubleshoot Memory Leaks

Jeffrey Palermo outlines how he tracks down memory leaks in managed code.
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Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:18 AM

Injection Attacks

Bertrand Le Roy has 6 rules to avoid injection attacks.
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Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:16 AM

IE Search Shortcut

Girish Bharadwaj shares some registry tweaks you can use to make searches from IE's address bar easy.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:00 PM

Garbage Collection Of A Different Kind

Gunnar Kudrjavets describes why a source control system is not a recycle bin or a backup repository.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:57 AM

Web Applications Without Web Projects

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.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:51 AM

Command Bars in VS.NET 2003

Rick Strahl has some code and debugging tips for those trying to build an Add-In for Visual Studio.
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Sunday, August 15, 2004 7:36 PM

Going Independent

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.
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Sunday, August 15, 2004 2:39 PM

Resolving DateTime FormatExceptions

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.
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Sunday, August 15, 2004 2:30 PM

Lost Data With a StreamWriter

Microsof't BCL team gives an in-depth description on the importance of closing a StreamReader object.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:23 PM

Internet Explorer in Windows XP SP2

Tony Chor provides a high level description of architectural and user experienece changes made to Internet Explorer in XP SP2.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:20 PM

Programming by superstition

Jim Arnold debunks some of the popular myths he sees in .NET discussion forms.
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Monday, August 09, 2004 7:47 PM

Case insensitive string comparisons

Chris Taylor shows some performance test results for string comparisons.
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Friday, August 06, 2004 11:58 PM

Windows XP SP2 Released

Read Robert McLaw's insightful opinions on the newly released service pack for XP.
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Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:09 AM

Session variables and Redirects

Bertrand Le Roy explains how you can lose your session variables by using Response.Redirect at the wrong time.
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Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:08 AM

Threat Modeling

Dana Epp reviews the book Threat Modeling from Microsoft Press.
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