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 HowTo:…
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 software strategy from a…
“Have a question about the Visual Basic .NET language? Want to know why the language has or doesn’t have a particular feature? Why something was done in a particular way? Where the language might be going? Just enter your question below and your question will be considered for a…
Travis Laborde [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/travisl/] has a great tip on why not to use @@identity [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/travisl/posts/405.aspx] in TSQL code and use scope_identity() [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_sa-ses_6n8p.asp] instead. BTW, the…
Thanks to Brad Adams [http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA/] for?posting the Longhorn Architecture Diagram [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/LHArch.PDC2003.png] and the WinFX Namespace Poster (PDF [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/pdc_namespaceposter.pdf] / JPG [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/pdc_namespaceposter.jpg]). Ofcourse,…
.NET Rocks! [http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp] now has a mirror repository?hosted?by MSDN [http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/]. http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/…
It may happen that you wish to connect to and control the behavior of a Windows Service – programatically. There’s a .NET class called ServiceController [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemserviceprocessservicecontrollerclasstopic.asp] just to do that. It represents a Windows service and allows…