January 2005 Entries
Lot's of stuff in the news this week:
The Enterprise Library has arrived! Seven reusable application blocks from the patterns and practices group at Microsoft.
Casey beats CAPTCHA.
Rick Brewster on Writing For Concurrency.
Kirk Viehland is not happy with SQL Server Reporting Services.
Peter Jones has a SQL Reporting Preview Window built with PrintDocument.
Adam Machanic has a comprehensive post about dealing with large bitmasks in SQL Server. Be sure to follow the links in the feedback for part II.
Microsoft Architects JOURNAL #4
SP1 for BizTalk 2004 is out.
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Bid at the .NET charity auction.
JavaWorld has the code for a SQL Server Reporting Services Java Proxy! (via Daniel)
Safecracking for the computer scientist.
Another advanced hiding technique from Robert Hensing: The mystery of the trojaned Winlogon.exe.
Batch Compilation, Recompilation, and Plan Caching Issues in SQL Server 2005 (via Adam).
MSDN Magazine has a new article on writing a rendering extension for Reporting Services.
Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Tools v 1.0 available for download (includes log parser and metabase explorer!)
XML Options In SQL Server 2005 (via Kent).
How to sysprep a virtual machine.
Scott Swigart: Why Microsoft will have to change the way it writes software.
James Snape: Uniqueidentifiers as Primary Key Columns.
Robert Hensing uncovers an insidious file hiding technique.
Eric Lippert: Benford's Law.
Raymond Chen demonstrates why exceptions are hard.
Tim Weaver writes an FxCop rule to enforce an internal coding standard on database connection usage.
Roy Osherove releases the source code to The Regulator (RegEx tool).
Drew Robbins covers the surge in client-side scripting.
Patrick Barnes: An Overview Of Visual C# 2005.
Brad Abrams makes the first post from his 64 bit machine.
Rico Mariani: Performance Quiz #5.
Microsoft launches the beta version of an AntiSpyware tool. (via G. Andrew Duthie).
John Wood on The Unnecessary Complexity of Good Design.
Larry Osterman continues an interesting thread of conversation on Win32 fibers.
Tara Dugan has a Reporting Services Tip on using scripts and rs.exe to deploy reports to a server.
Kaisa has a safe function to display percentages in a report.