• Anil John describes how Windows authentication works in an Internet scenario.
• Nuno Silva posts part one of a three part series on extending ASP.NET
• Lisa Wollin has a cross-browser script for creating mouse over effects.
• Jeff Atwood talks about what to do with the broken features of SmartNavigation.
• Charles Young has an article about the ten commandments of Biztalk pipeline stream processing.

• Rick Strahl walks through the design and implementation of a cookie utility class for ASP.NET
• Rico Mariani has performance tips for library writers.
• Bertrans Le Roy describes a scenario where you want to override LoadViewState for a web control.
• Adam Machanic demonstrates caveats around SQL Server's TEXT datatype.
• Josh Crosby posts some interview questions to ask a potential SQL Server DBA.
• Krzysztof Cwalina discusses the myth of interface as contract.
• Eric Nelson has some news about Reporting Services in 2005.

It's been a busy, busy nine days since the last OTC Link Blog post. Let's see what is interesting:

• Krzysztof Cwalina has design guidelines for using class factories and class constructors.
• GROUP BY hints from the TSQL language blog.
• Larry Osterman digs into COM activation.
• Mike Stall continues with some insight into debugger internals.

Girish Bharadwaj looks at new screen scraping techniques in Whidbey.

Feroze Daud covers asynchronous programming with HttpWebRequest.

Manish gives some insight into the CallContext class.

Peter Hallam talks about optimizations for today's and tommorow's field initializers.

Scott Mitchell shows the correct way to use CreateChildControls.