OdeToCode Links For August 7

Monday, August 8, 2005 by otcnews

• 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

Sunday, July 31, 2005 by otcnews

• 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

Sunday, July 24, 2005 by otcnews

• 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

Sunday, July 17, 2005 by

• 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

Sunday, July 10, 2005 by otcnews

• 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

Monday, July 4, 2005 by otcnews

• 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

Monday, June 27, 2005 by otcnews

• 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.

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