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Some pointer from a Scott Swigard to Whidbey/Yukon SMO and to a post about Anonymous Methods in C#
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Prolific as ever, Mike points out how well tesdriven.Net works in a quick example
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Sahil Malik poses the question ” Does you know someone who suffers from XMLitis “. Pretty funny post.
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Roland has an example of a somewhat non-standard winforms splitter control.
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Have I posted this before? Hope not… and even if I did, blame it on the eggnogg, turkey and Dresdner Stollen
Terry has a self-published web-based book on OO in .NET both C# and VB.NET. Might be a fun read since it comes straight from the authors mouth.
TerrySmith.net - Doing Objects in […]

A component that can be used to aid in the generation of report templates / rdl files. It looks a bit raw but the idea has some promise.
Link here

This MSDN article outlines how to build a Reporting Services RDL file in code. I have a feeling that ultimately many folks will choose this approach as opposed to some of the management components of Reporting Svs.

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Just a brief description with screenshots that explains how to set up a report in Reporting Services.
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My daughter and I finished the Christmas tree yesterday. It looks really nice. We went and bought it together and then of course decorated the whole thing.
Often I’m reminded at this time of year how Christmas was celebrated in Germany where I grew up. For starters most people didnt get their tree and decorate it […]

This could come in handy.
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How do you style a site? If your anything like me, you find a nice site and look at their styles. But what about a case when there is a specific need for a specific fix. Can you imagine trying to browse for that? So today I came across an Aussie site that sells what […]

Apress is owned by Springer Publishing, a German company best known for the German equivalent of the National Enquirer. Although I have to tell you thats really really stretching it. I should probably say more the equivalent of People magazine, with a bit more sensationalism. In my 23 years in the US, Springer has bought […]

Somewhere in the middle of the file manifest you will find some entries for iOpener. It is a utility written in C# (sourcode included) that can be used to strip an iTunes download of whatever encryption it uses to keep it from playing on anything other than a iPod. My wife and daughter are both […]

In today’s hostile, interconnected computing environment, we often find the need to protect data while it is stored on a physical medium or transmitted over a network. To achieve this goal, we turn to cryptography. While the field of cryptography entails much more, in this article we will focus on encryption; specifically the ciphers available […]

Free eBook. “Dissecting a C# Application - Inside SharpDevelop”.
SharpDevelop is an open source IDE for creating .NET apps. I saw this book on the shelve at Borders a year ago but didnt buy it. So here it is free!
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Christian Wade had a nice small post about client call backs in Whidbey
“Client callbacks are supported by ASP.NET V2 (Whidbey). They work by submitting an asynchronous XML-HTTP request to the server. This request is processed by the server, but does not re-render the page. It is very lightweight because the form […]

Grady Booch speaks out against some of the awful misinformation that appears to come from Microsoft on the subject of Software Factories.
“…The past couple of months, Microsoft has unleashed a torrent of words detailing their marketecture for software factories. Alan Brown and Simon Johnston of IBM Rational have previously and very ably commented on […]

Oh man that takes me back. The very first application I wrote was done in Alpha. It was a fully functional insurance agency manager. I even produced a demo of it using Dan Bricklin’s Demo-It. Oh wow, those were the days. Its nice to see that Alpha has survived.
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As I mentioned before, WinFS is FUBAR and so is ObjectSpaces. Here is a link to Frans’ comments on the subject. He has some interesting thoughts.
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Here is a link to an outsourcing company that explicitely states you can’t be over 30. Amazing the crap that some countries can get away with.
click here and follow the link marked “careers”.