SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP1

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, Service Pack 1 [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=580febf7-2972-40e7-bccf-6cd90ac2f464&displaylang=en] is available now. Some interesting comments on how it compares to Crystal Reports 9 on my old .NET blog [http://weblogs.asp.net/ashben/archive/2003/11/21/39022.aspx]…

.NET 2.0 SDK

.NET Framework 2.0 (Beta 1 ) SDK is available for download [http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/downloads/default.aspx] now.…

Murphy Laws

Murphy Laws [http://www.murphys-laws.com/] on love, technology, computer, commerce, war, graphic design and more ……

Largest software exporter from India

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) [http://www.tcs.com/] has maintained its position as the largest software exporter from India. More … [http://www.rediff.com/rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/money/2004/jul/13tcs.htm]…

From VB.NET to C#

Seven reasons [http://www.elegancetech.com/CSVB_WhyConvert.aspx] why VB.NET programmers should migrate to C#, and a sensible response [http://weblogs.asp.net/CFranklin/archive/2004/07/12/181125.aspx] to that by Carl Franklin [http://weblogs.asp.net/CFranklin/]. The deal is, both VB.NET and C#…

Example Web Page

Raymond Chen [http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/13/181733.aspx] makes a good point on using sample URLs in documentation or elsewhere: > When writing documentation, one often has need to come up with a sample URL to illustrate some point or other. … Make your sample URLs…

ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix

ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix [http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/ado2featurematrix.asp] [via Scott Swigart [http://ea.3leaf.com/2004/07/adonet_20_featu.html]]…

Measuring TCP and UDP Performance

Test TCP (TTCP) [http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm] is a command-line sockets-based benchmarking tool for measuring TCP and UDP performance between two systems. [via Ohad [http://weblogs.asp.net/israelio/archive/2004/07/12/180990.aspx]]…