Month: November, 2004

ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman’s Weblog - The Scary Google Desktop Search Hacks have begun…now, search more file types

11 November, 2004 (05:56) | General | No comments

Scott Hanselman points out that this bit of hacking requires the installation of patched binaries. I did it. So far so good and boy does it ever rock to search all my cs files in .000002 sec flat. Thats very cool.
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The Mother of All WinForms

10 November, 2004 (18:33) | .NET Tools | No comments

I think this site belongs to Franceso Balena who is one of the better known MS programmers in Europe. The Forms Maximizer advertised here allows a developer to extend a base form with all sorts of nice to have goodies. Here is a partial list of what you can do with it. Impressive.
Calculated fields: […]

ASP.NET 1.1 Forms Authentication

9 November, 2004 (20:04) | .NET, .NET Code Related | No comments

I could have sworn that I had listed some resources for this already….. Must be getting old.
Anyways, the single best article I’ve found on the subject of Forms Authentication was written by Mike Gunderloy
No surprise here I’d say. Mike is one of the best people in the business at explaining technical topics. Its a […]

Updated Utility: Unleash It 2.3 - Now with Plugins!

9 November, 2004 (16:21) | .NET Tools | No comments

Matt Hawley points out:
Exactly 1 month from the last release, Unleash It 2.3 is now officially released with the gold stamp of approval. This release has some more major improvements in the application, however the biggest announcement for this release is the introduction of plugin support. Now, you have a way of writing managed code […]

VERITAS -Application Service Management

7 November, 2004 (18:00) | General, SQL Server | No comments

When you need to know which parts of your app to tweak in order to make it perform better, this is the tool to get. We briefly used Veritas InDepth to analyze database and proc performance and were very impressed. Its especially useful in determining which procs needed the most attention. Running the tool on […]

Regular Expression Library

7 November, 2004 (17:47) | General, .NET | No comments

This can be useful. A searchable online library of regex expressions.
Welcome to RegExLib.com, the Internet’s first Regular Expression Library. Currently we have indexed 815 expressions from contributors around the world. We hope you’ll find this site useful and come back whenever you’re looking for an expression for a particular task, or have just figured […]

The Demotivators? Collection - from Despair.com

7 November, 2004 (17:45) | General | No comments

This si such a funny site. Check out the poster links in the right hand column.
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C# to VB.NET code translator

7 November, 2004 (02:23) | .NET Tools | No comments

This would be funny if it wasn’t serious. Many, many large compnaies insist on using VB.NET. I suppose they are laboring under the incorrect assumption that VB.NET is like VB6. Anyways since I write mostly C#, this can come in handy when communicating with the non-curly braced portion of the MS world.
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CSS Vault - The Web’s CSS Site

3 November, 2004 (17:04) | General | No comments

Nice reference site for css layout related questions.
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Using HTTP Modules and Handlers to Create Pluggable ASP.NET Components

3 November, 2004 (16:05) | .NET Code Related | No comments

Did I mention already that Scott Mitchell has the nicest pluggable error logging framework avilable for download. This looks very interesting. And in an unusual twist it can actually log errors in an RSS format (aside from the usual database entries).
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Bob Beauchemin’s Blog - Early XQuery schema validation

3 November, 2004 (15:56) | SQL Server | No comments

I’m still not the biggest fan of xml. In my mind its a great replacement for EDI but thats about it. Yes I know there is sooo much more it can do. But I prefer good old objects to angle brackets. That said, here is a small note from Bob Beauchemin regarding XQuery validation of […]

Australian slang dictionary

3 November, 2004 (03:22) | General | No comments

This is a lot of fun. Here are some examples:
Amber fluid : beer
Ankle biter : small child
Bingle : motor vehicle accident
Boomer : a large male kangaroo
Franger : condom
Freckle : anus
Frog in a sock, as cross as a : sounding angry - a person or your hard drive!
Australian slang dictionary

What causes ViewState Errors

2 November, 2004 (16:39) | .NET | No comments

Some of this actually came up in an interview I recently had. Nice resource. Read more