| Asynchronous ASP.NET 2.0 Page Processing | |
| Covers some of the basics about the Asynchronous Page model in ASP.NET 2.0 and provides an example of concurrent async tasks using the AsyncTask object in the page. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| SEO with Google, MSN and Yahoo Site: and Link: Counts | |
| shows how to webscrape the counts of search results with either a link: or site: search from Google, MSN and Yahoo, and illustrates some uses for this. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| IE7 RC1 Now available | |
| Microsoft today makes available Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 for download to the public. This version will automatically uninstall previous BETA versions of the product. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| BOOK REVIEW: Mastering Regular Expressions [O'Reilly] | |
| Review of Jeffrey Friedl's third edition of the book, which includes complete section on .NET 2.0 |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| Fun with the MSFeeds API - Get and Prune OPML From a URL | |
| Shows how to use the built-in IE7 (And Vista) MSFeeds API to download and create feeds via a URL, and prune out inactive feeds based on user criteria. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| Visual Studio.NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Now Available | |
| The first Service Pack incorporates hotfixes released since Visual Studio 2003 first shipped, Security Updates, critical fixes and other additional fixes for problems that Visual Studio team testers have discovered. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| Google Data API now includes full Blogger API | |
| WiIth yesterday's Blogger Beta launch comes some great news for Blogger API developers — Blogger now has a Google Data API! |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| A Developer's Guide To SQL Server Profiler | |
| SQL Profiler is powerful tool for any MS SQL database developer. Adding it to your toolset opens up a whole new world of debugging and performance tuning capabilities by providing a deep insight into what your code, and database, is actually doing. Whether you are developing with hand-coded T-SQL, an OR Mapper (LLBL Gen, etc.), or a component that generates database commands for you, the Profiler can help diagnose many mysteries and help pinpoint performance problems. |
| By: Mike Prince |
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| SQL Server Query Analyzer Runs Fast - Stored Procedure Runs Slow | |
| Stored procedure runs slow in query analyzer but the same query pasted into query analyzer runs fast. Learn how to avoid parameter sniffing. |
| By: Robbe Morris |
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| Search Engine Analysis of .NET Web Sites | |
| Robbe's research project for search engine analysis of .net web sites has finally been released to the public. TopicHound.com reviewed thousands of .NET keywords and ran an analysis on Google and MSN to see how sites compared across various .NET topic areas. |
| By: Robbe Morris |
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| SQLiteQA3: SQLite ADO.NET Query Analyzer Clone with VS.NET 2005 | |
| A port of the old SQLiteQA Query Analyzer to Visual Studio.NET 2005 using the ADO.NET 2.0 provider exclusively. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| Implementing Table and Stored Procedure Profile Providers for ASP.NET | |
| The default Profile provider for ASP.NET 2.0 stores user profile data in a serialized, opaque blob format that makes it unfeasible to search, sort, or index your members by profile fields. This implementation of sample code shows how you can store profile data in a standard way and use stored procedures to set, get and filter it. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| Some Basic Rules of Development | |
| I've been working as an individual developer for probably 20 years now, and as a team developer for only about the last 6 years. Here are a few of the "rules of development" I've learned so far. Not everything in this list is 100% my own concept, but I can state that I have "taken ownership" on all of them. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| Asynchronous Fire and Forget Pattern Redux | |
| Peter revisits the FireAndForget pattern, with a cool Console app that exercises the method 100,000 times and shows you the times. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| How to reference Assemblies in the GAC | |
| We have been getting some posts lately where developers are installing assemblies in the GAC and then asking why they don't see them enumerated in the Add Reference dialogs. This should clear things up for most developers. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| Twelve Ways to NOT ask a question on a Developer Forum! | |
This is actually reposted from this fine person's blog here:
http://www.sharpgis.net/PermaLink,guid,b67571ab-e35c-44c3-bec9-c8a48e70252e.aspx
with some additions! |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| SQL Server 2000 How-To Videos for Beginner DBAs | |
| Here are a few old movies that demonstrate basic sql server dba tasks such as creating tables, indexes, constraints, and managing database maintenance plans with SQL Server 2000. |
| By: Robbe Morris |
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| Build a Windows XP "Site Changer" IIS Utility | |
| There are several utilities and hacks that allow you to create and switch to multiple web sites on Windows XP, but you can only have one running at the same time, and some of these utilities can have nasty side effects. The most reliable way is to only have the one default site in IIS, and just switch the location of the home directory to the folder for the web site that you happen to be working on. This utility does that and more. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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| SQL Server 2005 Recursion - WITH Clause - Table of Contents | |
| Contains a few quick samples concerning the new WITH clause added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2005. Hierarchical salary analysis, salary differentials, and creating document table of content ordering keys are demonstrated. |
| By: Robbe Morris |
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| SQLEXPRESS Connection String Features | |
| Convers some of the features of SQLEXPRESS connection strings and a couple of tricks for dynamic substitution, as well as other Provider-specific details. |
| By: Peter Bromberg |
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