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Monday, May 15, 2006 11:14 AM

Expression Web Designer Is Here

CTP 1 of Expression Web Designer is now available for download. Please see the announcement from Devindra Chainani, Group Program Manager, Expression Web Designer , for more details and download links. Expression Web Designer is a new Microsoft tool for
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Friday, May 12, 2006 11:09 AM

Code Query Language

http://www.practicaldot.net/en2/main.htm Have you ever wanted to run some metrics on your code base, to try and gauge its quality or to try and find bad practices? There are some tools out there for such static analysis, such as FxCop and the built in
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Friday, May 12, 2006 9:15 AM

Practical .NET2 and C#2

I recently had the opportunity to skim-read Practical .NET2 and C#2 by Microsoft MVP Patrick Smacchia. You’ll find the book’s table of contents and examples online at its website (linked from title), along with an impressive list of testimonials.
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:43 PM

Atlas GeoTagging Tool

DotNetSlackers has a new Atlas tool written by Alessandro Gallo that combines geotagging, Flickr images, and a mapping tool. Pretty cool. One of these days I will have to play with Flickr … Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! |
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:13 PM

Assembly Hijacking Video

RockyH has a great little video walkthrough called Assembly Hijacking showing how a bad guy can use a combination of SQL Injection and lack of strong named assemblies to do bad things to an e-commerce website. Definitely worth watching and remembering.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:55 PM

Beginning AJAX Book - Tech Edit Complete

As of today I'm officially done tech editing Beginning AJAX , a book coming soon from Wiley publishing. Amazon has a page for the book (pre-production) here . The book includes information on writing your own AJAX framework, using several existing free
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Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:12 AM

Rebuilding Alienware M7700 with FastTrak RAID and Windows XP

This is a note for myself and anybody else who finds themselves frustrated when it comes time to reinstall Windows XP on their Alienware laptop with RAID (this advice applies to more than just the M7700). Basically, the behavior I ran into was that I
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:17 AM

PromptSQL - RedGate SQL Prompt

I love Red Gate Software . Their tools rock. If you use SQL Databases, I highly recommend them. I just saw that they recently bought Prompt SQL and will soon be releasing it as SQL Prompt. You can download the SQL Prompt beta if you like. What is it?
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:48 AM

Kent Ohio

I live in Kent, Ohio, which is a pretty small community in northeast Ohio, about 20 minutes east of Akron or 45 minutes south of Cleveland. It's known to many as home to Kent State University (yes, that Kent State, which depending on whom you ask might
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Monday, May 01, 2006 2:02 PM

Update to CS 2.0

Yesterday we updated ASPAdvice.com to Community Server 2.0. So far it seems to be a lot nicer. Please let me know if you have any problems with the new site. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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