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Red Gate Software has a free e-book.
“… This book is full of “essays and ideas from the SQL Server community,” and is a valuable resource for anyone working with SQL Server…”
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Code generation tool.
MyGeneration is a Development Tool written in Microsoft .NET. MyGeneration generates code from templates by combining either JScript, VBScript, DotNetScript C#, or DotNetScript VB.NET with a powerful database meta-data API. MyGeneration is 100% FREE and supports Microsoft SQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access, FireBird, and Interbase. MyGeneration can generate code […]

Bob Beauchemin’s MSDN article. Summary: Learn how to use the new notification technologies in ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 to handle ad-hoc data refreshes.
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Just a reference
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Read80Trace is a command line utility for processing trace files generated by SQL Server 2000. As output, it generates RML files and/or a database populated with normalized data that can be useful for analyzing the performance of the system. Read80Trace requires that the destination database also run SQL Server 2000 or later.
OSTRESS is a multithreaded […]

Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting […]

The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century
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This is a static method to display all cookies associated with the current domain. Wherever you use it, be sure to include System.Text and System.Web. This is essentially a C# translation of code found in Mike Pope’s MSDN article “Basics of Cookies in ASP.NET,” updated to use a StringBuilder and provide the output as an […]

This lady rocks !
Summary: Although partitioning tables and indexes has always been a design tactic chosen to improve performance and manageability in larger databases, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has new features that simplify the design. This whitepaper describes the logical progression from manually partitioning data by creating your own tables to the preliminary features, which […]

Video - Let me show you how to run and debug ASP.NET apps built with VS.NET 2003 without IIS using this tinny web server.
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dScribe is a Content Management System build with .Net 1.1. It’s useful to maintain the content of Websites.
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Last month I posted about a cool way we came up with to automatically bind all the controls on our application forms to various data sources. That solution was cool, but it was slow. Because it used binding. And because I made it in like an hour, and because I didn’t optimize the various loops […]

Anders talks about a feature he’s working on for C# 3.0 that aims to make data programmable in a general purpose and truly object oriented syntax; something that just doesn’t exist today.
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You want to process a bunch of data associated with a single MSMQ message. First, create a class with the Serializable attribute.
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The Middleware Company has completed a massive study comparing IBM WebSphere against Microsoft .NET across multiple dimensions: developer productivity, manageability, reliability, and application performance. This latest study is the most extensive research endeavor TMC has conducted to date.

And in case you didnt read Mike’s post below, here is a breakout of Paul Wilsons ADO.NET XML Provider:
Have you ever wanted to work with your Xml files as if they were databases? Would you like to use SQL Select statements, instead of XPath, to retrieve, filter, and sort your Xml data? What […]

Mike Gunderloy has a whole lot of good stuff on any given day. Here is one comment I especially liked today:
Paul Ballard reacts to the release of WS-Eventing, WS-Policy, WS-Transfer, and WS-Enumeration. I’m not afraid to say that over the last year I’m one of the people who has ended up in the WS-WhoGivesAShit camp. […]

Last week’s 4Guys article looked at creating a collapsible details region using a Repeater and some nifty client-side DHTML. This technique allows for a page with potentially gobs of information to be presented in a more readable format, as can be seen in this live demo. (The astute reader might have noticed that […]

Fritz Onion : Every once in a while when I’m exploring a technology, I experience a jaw-dropping moment where I’m blown away by how elegant, or well designed, or rife with potential something is.Read more

This white paper provides an introduction to the Web services architecture. It describes the design principles underlying the architecture and foundational technologies for Web services. Features are described and linked to the specifications that formally define them. This paper also serves as a reference guide to all the specifications in the architecture. (45 printed pages)
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