Anyone using MySQL [http://www.mysql.com] as a primary or secondary database system must checkout the MySQL Gotchas [http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html] (a list of features or functions which work as advertised – but not as expected). MySQL can be accessed from VB.NET using some managed…
A friend from work sent me this list of Companion Tools for .NET development [http://www.csharpfriends.com/statics/tools.aspx]. For anyone into BizTalk (2002 or 2004b [http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/beta/] ), you must checkout the BizTalk User Group [http://www.biztalkug.com/]. Its a growing community with…
Dino Esposito provides an overview of Longhorn, focusing on the build-once, deploy n-times application model. In addition, he discusses XAML, that’s used to create UI elements, then presents some working samples. A First Look at Writing and Deploying Apps in the Next Generation of Windows. [http://msdn.…
Here’s an Excel spreadsheet [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e114b7e5-400f-45b6-9e1c-50968a0cc729&displaylang=en] illustrating network ports used by Microsoft products. The spreadsheet shows what network ports are used by the system services utilized by the Microsoft Windows Server System products. And there’…
Although not entirely related to .NET, Google Labs [http://labs.google.com/] has a list of some really interesting whitepapers written by Googlers [http://labs.google.com/papers.html]?on stuff like Data Mining,?Search Engine Design, Algorithms, File System Design, UI Design, Natural Language Processing and much more. Some…
Jan Gray from the Microsoft CLR Performance Team wrote a while back on Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/fastmanagedcode.asp] . A very nice article to read. Craig Andera [http://staff.develop.com/candera/] shows…
The xp_dirtree extended procedure in SQL Server (7.0 and 2000) will list the subdirectories in the specified directory. Usage: EXEC master.dbo.xp_dirtree ‘C:Windows’ As I learnt today, the title (browser window title) of an ASP.NET page can be changed programatically. Here how … In the…
A new article (special report) on Longhorn [http://news.com.com/2009-1016_3-5103226.html] and Microsoft’s future strategy has been published at CNET News -?Is Microsoft’s new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, a radical innovation or a return to the company’s winner-take-all…