[Photo album]
[Back up machines with Backer]
[Google's Microsoft-specific search feature]
[SQL.NET type mapping]

Cool tools
[kk]
[karenware]

Practical Eye for the .NET Guy: Introduction to NAnt

Running multiple IE versions side by side

• Insert Title
• MSDN

Client/Server Rendezvous: services advertise their presence, and how clients discover them

• OnDotNet
• WindoJitsu

Microsoft app updater

• windowsforms.net
• MSDN

C++ code to do some sort of low-level memory operation in Windows.

{
  MEMORYSTATUS stat = {0};
  GlobalMemoryStatus (&stat);
  VOID* mem = VirtualAlloc (0,stat.dwAvailPhys,
    MEM_COMMIT,
    PAGE_READWRITE);

  // req to really alloc the pages
  memset (mem,0,stat.dwAvailPhys);
  VirtualFree (mem,0,MEM_RELEASE);
}

Signing a DLL

AL /link:ClassLibrary1.dll  /keyf:keyfile.snk /out:signedlibrary.dll

Using and IDisposable

Connection pooling rules for SQL Server

RunAs

set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "runas /user:Serdar ""e:test.bat"""
WScript.Sleep 100
WshShell.Sendkeys "password~"

C# to HTML

HOW TO: Configure SQL Server Security for .NET Applications

Measure power consumption of electrical appliances

Neo (open source code generator)
Neo generates entity classes and database tables (only SQL Server as yet) from an XML schema, and provides typed collections, factories, query objects.

OLAP services (Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services)

OLAP articles on MSDN

Administering and scheduling Analysis Services tasks

1. Create a DTS package that processes objects in Analysis Services. 
a. Create an Analysis Services processing task.
b. (Optional.) Add connections and other tasks to the package.
c. Save the package. 
2. Schedule and execute the package. 

DTS overview

MS OLAP articles

ASP.NET control to write HTML

[FreeTextBox]

Alternative browsers

[Opera 7.23]

[Mozilla 1.5]

Managed code wrapper for DDE

.NET Remoting Services are the recommended solution for interprocess communications in .NET, but there are many scenarios where .NET Remoting won't work. Shawn shows how to get simple, intrasession IPC messaging in .NET by creating a managed library for good old Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).

[Download]

Microsoft discontinues Windows 1998, NT 4.0, SQL Server 7

RSS tools

Grokker

Vivisimo

What you can't say: heresy

Web design reference

Zip code animation

An economist's examination of gift-giving

Scott Watermasysk On .NET

Blogging from Antarctica

RSS add-in for Microsoft Outlook (intraVnews 1.0)

intraVnews is a state of the art news aggregator that turns Microsoft Outlook into a news reader. With intraVnews you can subscribe to any of 1000's of syndicated feeds from personal weblogs (Blogs) to mainstream news sources to specialist publications. You never have to leave Outlook again to keep up with changes on the web or your intranet. Best of all, it's Free for personal use.

DTS bug fixes

• MS KB 293320
• MS KB 293223

CRC in .NET

• Google
• M Reynolds's weblog
• 123aspx

Measuring memory in a .NET app

GC.Collect();
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
Console.WriteLine("Mem=" + System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().PrivateMemorySize.ToString());

Sending email from a WinForms app
This will pop open a new message for their default mail client.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Mailto:");

School of Athens

Injustice by Default: How the effort to catch "deadbeat dads" ruins innocent men's lives

#28 - How to manage smart people

Keyboard accelerators
CTRL+* = Expand ListView columns to proper width
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC = Task Manager

The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business: 2004 edition

Microsoft vs. Linux

URLs and IE/mail readers

1. SellsBrothers
2. Chez Tabor
3. WinWonk

Writing hostname in C#

static void Main(string[] args)
{
	String s = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName ();
	Console.WriteLine (s);
}

COM ATL header I use:

//>>> These are required for creating 
// com components, CComPtr, CComBSTR,
CComPtr and CComQIPtr.
#include 
extern CComModule _Module;
#include 
#include 
#include 
//<<<

#import "msxml.dll" \
			rename_namespace( "MSXML" ) \
			named_guids no_implementation \
			raw_interfaces_only \
			raw_native_types
using namespace MSXML;

Some sort of javascript for loading XML and applying an XSL style.

<title>Test of XML/XSL</title>
<script language="jscript">
function setInnerHTML ()
{
	var XMLDoc = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM');
	XMLDoc.async = false;
	XMLDoc.load ('av.xml');
	var XSLDoc = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM');
	XSLDoc.async = false;
	XSLDoc.load ('av.xsl');

	var result;
	try
	{
		var doc = XSLDoc.documentElement;
		result = XMLDoc
			.documentElement.transformNode(doc);
	}
	catch (err)
	{
		window.alert (err.description);
	}
	//window.alert (result);
	insertHTML.innerHTML = result;
}
</script>
<div id="insertHTML"></div>

C# code to get .config settings into in-memory data structure.

// Gather .config settings
NameValueCollection settings = 
    ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings;
string              user = settings["user"];
string              password = settings["password"];
string              nickname = settings["nickname"];

The matching XML data

<configuration>
    <appsettings>
        <add key="user" value="user@server.com">
        <add key="password" value="password">
        <add key="nickname" value="Sells Brothers IM client">
    </add>
</add>

[RSS incompatibilities]

[HOW TO: Build an Office COM Add-in by Using Visual C# .NET]

SourceForge Mp3 Tag Tools

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/massid3lib
• http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/

Contents of msdata namespace
MicroSoft

ChezTabor
ImageExplorer/

Windows hotkeys

Windows: Display Start menu.
Windows + D: Minimize or restore all Windows.
Windows + E: Display Windows Explorer.
Windows + Tab: Cycle through buttons on taskbar.
Windows + F: Display find: all files.
Windows + Ctrl + F: Display find: computer.
Windows + F1: Display Help.
Windows + R: Display Run command.
Windows + break: Display system properties dialog box.
Windows + shift + M: Undo minimize all windows.

Advanced WinForms layout

• WindowForms
• SoftComplex

User picker

• MSDN
• CodeGuru

OS authentication in Oracle

SQL reporting

Article on Indigo

Code coverage tool

Memory diagnostic

• WinDiag
• MemTest

The Google PageRank Report will check the Google PageRank values for the list of URLs you enter into the form below.

Two links from yourdictionary.com:

• 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English
• 100 MOST OFTEN MISSPELLED WORDS IN ENGLISH

Process monitor

• CodeProject 1
• Code Project 2
• Code Project 3

Fiddler

Something

Test Driven Development as a Practice by Ron Jeffries

Patterns & practices Live: Test Driven Development by Jim Newkirk

Assoc and ftype

C:\>assoc .txt=Wordpad.Document.1

C:\>ftype txtfile="%ProgramFiles%\Windows NT\Accessories\WORDPAD.EXE" "%1"

C:\>ftype txtfile
txtfile=%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1

C:\>assoc .txt
.txt=txtfile

C:\>assoc txtfile
txtfile=Text Document

Strong names

Offline file shares

LINKD

WsContractFirst
VS addin for developing Web Services

User interface gallery

• Map
• Components
• Drives and devices

XP SP2 RC1 available for download

ADO.NET PowerToys