PDC Content and Multi-direction Treeview Control
FYI, the entire audio/visual content from PDC 2003 is available online (via Microsoft). Also, Sean Gerety has an interesting idea for a multi-direction treeview control (mockup below):…
PDF's on-the-fly and Code in Indigo
iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. iText# is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. It is implemented as an assembly. [via Jay R] BTW, the buzz is that?upto 60K…
Refactoring with Whidbey or is it?!?!
“Leaked” image of the VB.NET context menu or is it?!?! (via secretGeek)…
SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
Have you tried the beta release of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services yet? If so, please leave a comment on what you think of it. How does it compare to Crystal Reports 9? By the way, the Crystal Reports .NET enterprise reporting solution videos (WMV) present a good overview –…
.NET Tools and BizTalk
A friend from work sent me this list of Companion Tools for .NET development. For anyone into BizTalk (2002 or 2004b), you must checkout the BizTalk User Group. Its a growing community with lots of technical articles, whitepapers, tools?and jobs. I had some training on BizTalk about 1.5…
Faster Managed Code & Self-Installing Service
Jan Gray from the Microsoft CLR Performance Team wrote a while back on Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost. A very nice article to read. Craig Andera shows HowTo: Write a Self-Installing Service?(Windows Service). Craig’s?solution is pretty sleek. It?basically involves writing an installer…
xp_dirtree and Dynamic Page Title
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…
Ask a Language Designer
“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…