Setting up a Development Environment with Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Armand du Plessis rebuilds his development environment using Virtual PC/Virtual Server. It sounds useful enough to blog here to trigger my failing memory when I might be tempted to do the same.

[Listening to: Nickelback - Where do I Hide?]

Primer to ConnectionStringBuilder in ADO.Net v2.0

Sushil Chordia puts together on the new ADO.NET 2.0 ConnectionStringBuilder class. Definitely a time saver (and maybe a trial-and-error eliminator.) Primer to ConnectionStringBuilder in ADO.Net v2.0 [Sushil Chordia]

[Listening to: Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio]

Keep your Main simple

Jason Clark, over at Wintellect has a nice post on why you should keep your Main entry point nice and simple. Even better, he gives you a juicy boilerplate to use.

[Listening to: Oysterhead - Owner of the World]

Book: Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime

Just found a reference to a potentially very useful book from Chris Sells here: Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime by Steven Pratscher. This sounds like just the stuff I'd be looking for (at least once I got off my butt and did something.)

[Listening to: Flybanger - When are you? (Gonna Die)]

Access Control List Editing in .NET

From the March 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine, Keith Brown gives us a UI to
Edit Access Control Lists .NET. Boy, just for the sake of displaying ACLs this thing rocks.

[Listening to: Godsmack - Forgive me]

XSLTO -- XSLT's in C#

This is cool enough to break me out of my non-blogging-funk: XSLTO -- XSLT-like processing using C#. That definitely seems neat. Found via Craig Andera.

[Listening to: Sarah McLachlan - Witness]

Throwing, catching, and a little bit of paranoia

Joe Duffy is paranoid. And by the looks of his blog entry Throwing, catching, and a little bit of paranoia I might be a little more paranoid too, especially around security sensitive code.

In a nutshell, despite your best intentions a perfectly valid .NET app can get code between an exception in your method and your finally block. Yikes!

[Listening to: Eminem - Til Hell Freezes Over]

Accessibility Domains and you

Jeff Key of SnippetCompiler fame posts a nice overview of Accessibility Domains. I.e. just what code can has access to a given class/method/member given it's accessibility modifiers (private/internal/public).

[Listening to: Placebo - Black-Eyed]

Limiting Profiling to particular blocks of code

Richard Wurdack (a.k.a Angry Richard) gives a quick intro to the profiler api and the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Profiler namespace to help Limit the Data Crunch from Trace Profiling.

This might help to prevent drowning in trace data.

[Listening to: Limp Bizkit - Outro]

One hand washing the other - Clarke Scott

You never know when you're going to need a favour, so here goes nothing...

Clarke Scott is asking for help to market his CRM software application for SME businesses by increasing his Google rating.

More power to you.

[Listening to: Natalie Imbruglia - One More Addiction]