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Mike pointed to this web site. Its a plethora of utilities and software that can be run from your USB key.
 

Link here.

Wow this thing is 14MB by now. My own framework has similar functionality in about 30K lines of code. Go figure. I suppose thats what happens when you partner with former Big 6 consultancies on this sort of stuff – you get everything plus 2 kitchen sinks and a lot of bloat. 
This release of Enterprise Library […]

Bill Evjen has a nice short discussion of uploading files. I especially like the filter ability that disallows all types except whatever you define – in his example mp3’s . Thats handy. I wonder what happens when a hacker renames a specific trojan to carry the extension of mp3 … do you suppose it would […]

Here is an Italian Viewstate analyzer. This one allows comparisons of snapshots of the content of viewstate. That could come in handy under certain circumstances.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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I’ve asked James, one of the QA devs guys at my company, to look at Ruby, Watir and NUnit as a very interesting way to control front-end web test via code. To me its a much better idea than recorded scripts.  James forwarded this link which looks very much like the type of test application I’m interesting in
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This guide provides a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.
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The very first “recipe” book I ever read was Mitchell Waite’s VB Problem Solver. As far as I know, Mitchell was the first publisher of this type of book, about 12 years ago.  From all indications he was very succesful with it. Several years later,  in 2001, Ian Darwin published another well received list of recipes. His “Java Cookbook” followed […]

Via Mike Gunderloy – Here is a nice C# lib on Sourceforge that can be used to import / export delimited files and XL spreadsheets. This kind of stuff gets asked for all the time.
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In my daily work as Architect for one of the largest skilled gaming communities on the Internet the idea of ranking players has often been an important consideration. Turns out MS Research has created a very nifty algorithm for XBox Live.  Some of the goodies are buried within links listed in the page below.
“…The TrueSkill […]

Here is a very handy page with a million resource links related to Project Management. Quite a little treasure trove of information.
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VS 2005 / ASP.NET 2.0 have several new build options available for web sites. Instead of one big assembly that contains all the code for a site (a la 1.1) it is now possible to build a site in such a way as to create assemblies per folder in the site or even assemblies per […]

Question: We are in the process of developing an application that will be used internally. We have just started coding using Visual Studio 2005. Part of the design uses overloaded functions and methods. This works fine until I start building some Web Services that we need. For some reason I keep getting the error that […]