OTC News

OdeToCode Links For August 7

otcnews — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:41:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie want you to help test the 2005 Web Project Migration Wizard.
Marc Brooks: All things UI point to Ajax and Rico.
Alister Jones takes us on a design journey in The Architecture - Part I and Why The Wonky Wheel?
Microsoft has made 30 new templates available for SharePoint Services.
The ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Toolkit is available.

OdeToCode Links For July 31

otcnews — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:41:00 GMT

Secret SQL Reporting Services Perfmon counters uncovered!
Scott C. Reynolds has a great comeback to Joel Spolsky's Hitting The High Notes.
There is lots of feedback coming in on AJAX and script callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0, see blog entries by Rick Strahl and Brock Allen. Also check out Jason Diamond's AJAX library.
Microsoft's "Genuine Advantage" for Windows was cracked in 24 hours.
Raymond Lewallen demonstrates boxing and unboxing in the CLR.
Issue 5 of Microsoft's Architechts Journal is online.
Common ASP.NET 2.0 Conversion Issues and Solutions
For Team System fans, Team System Rocks in now online.

OdeToCode Links For July 24

otcnews — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:07:00 GMT

Windows Vista - formerly Windows code name "Longhorn".
Rick Strahl has a low-level look at ASP.NET architecture.
Rocky Lhotka looks at physical n-tier options.
Nate Moch explains System.Transactions.
David Wang explains URLScan's behavior with the query string.

OdeToCode Links For July 17

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:27:00 GMT

Wesner Moise talks about dynamic typing and other possible changes in store for C# 3.0.
David Kline explains what a 'first chance' exception is.
David Wang has tips on diagnosing 401.x errors in IIS.
The Microsoft Certification Program is changing later this year.
Rob Caron is looking for feedback on how you deploy Reporting Services.
The 2005 PDC Session abstracts are online.

OdeToCode Links For July 10

otcnews — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:23:00 GMT

Adam whips up some Monad script blocks to help out my poor Monad script.
Andrew D. Birrell has published a great threading resource in "An Introduction To Programming with C# Threads". For an introduction, this article digs pertty deep.
Sherlock is an internal tool used by Microsoft PSS to analyze blocking problems in SQL Server. (via SQLTeam).
Yun Jin describes all the special threads you'll see running in the CLR.
Mitch Denny is in the middle of an Iron Coder contest. What's better: extender providers or sub-classing?

OdeToCode Links For July 4

otcnews — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 02:46:00 GMT

Here is an oldie but a goodie: Jason Antonelli describes the URL Rewriting strategies used for MSN Spaces.
Tobin Titus has an article on Overrides versus Shadows in VB.NET.
DimitryR describes common mistakes that lead to deadlock in ASP.NET 2.0 async pages: Part I and Part II.
Mapping mania is sweeping the globe. Google unleashes Google Earth. Jeff McManus explains why Yahoo! Maps API is better than anyone else's mapping API.
Use Brendan Tompkins' web service to win a trip to the PDC!
Vineet Rao demonstrates how to use Regular Expressions and CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005.
There is a hotfix available for SQL Server Reporting Services Service Pack 2 that fixes a number of bugs.

OdeToCode Links For June 26

otcnews — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:57:00 GMT

Kimberly Tripp has 8 steps to improve transaction log throughput.
Thom Robbins has a video to demo the Code Snippets feature in Visual Studio 2005.
Raymond Lewallen creates a web service in SQL Server 2005.
William Vaughn has a list of 18 improvements for VS.NEXT.

OdeToCode Links For June 20

otcnews — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:44:00 GMT

Win A Book!
Read Hejlsberg's thoughts on .NET and C-Omega in an Infoworld interview.
Mark Russinovich of sysinternals gets to the bottom of an explosion of security audit records.
Eran Sandler continues to dive deep into debugging by showing how to track down CPU Spinning.
Chrissy LeMaire has a script to create friendly shortcuts to the IIS logfiles.
Denis Ruckebusch introduces us to static typing caveats in XQuery.

OdeToCode Links For June 12

otcnews — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:58:00 GMT

Yes - the link blog has been quiet lately, but we're back with a vengeance, and a different style...

Jeremy Miller, in TDD Design Starter Kit - State vs. Interaction Testing, shows us how to write a C# class with no regard for unit testing, and then how to go back and design the same class for testability. Along the same lines, Roy Osherove has slides and sample code available for his latest presentation on “Testing Legacy Code”. The sample code demonstrates a number of useful refactoring strategies to make legacy code testable.

Rick Strahl has been kicking out some killer ASP.NET 2.0 posts lately, including “ASP.NET projects aren’t ‘real’ projects in VS.NET 2005”, “Script Callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0 – interesting, but lacking”, and “Adding default Namespaces and Control libraries in ASP.NET 2.0 with web.config”.

There is a new episode of MSDN TV available: Report Authoring Tips & Tricks with Brian Welcker. Of course the huge news this week for Reporting Services was that SSRS will be available in ALL SQL Server 2005 editions, including Express, and the Report Builder (an ad-hoc tool for end users), will be available in Standard and Workgroup editions (it was previously going to only be available in the pricier Enterprise edition). Wow!

OdeToCode Links For April 4

otcnews — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:34:00 GMT

Roy Osherove: Test Coverage and testing angles
Scott C. Reynolds: The Growth of the Corporate Software Developer Part III – Knowledge
Jeffrey Palermo: Trying out the Model-View-Presenter pattern - level 300
Brandon Paddock: Good Microsoft, Bad Microsoft
Larry Osterman: What is a BUGBUG?
Brendan Tompkins: Applying Behavior Analysis Theory to the Software Industry
Jeffrey Palermo (again) : General application architecture revisited - level 400