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By Mike Gunderloy
Tuesday, February 17, 2004Perhaps I'm making up for yesterday, but I've got all sorts of browser windows open with stuff to report today. Let's get started.
Software
- TOAD for MS SQL Server - A free SQL Server port of a respected Oracle data browser and SQL editor. (via Bert Scalzo)
- Visual MainWin for the J2EE platform - Write ASP.NET code, compile the MSIL to Java bytecodes, run it on your J2EE server. Wacky. (via Miguel de Icaza)
- Microsoft SQL Web Data Administrator - Looks like Microsoft has finally put out their own solution for managing SQL Server over the Web.
- Dot Net Script - Another solution for executing .NET code as a scripting language.
- Lucid Reports - Another report generator for the .NET environment. (via Matthew Cosier)
- .netADS 1.0 - Just in case you want to serve your pop-up and banner ads from a .NET system.
- Outlook 2002/2003 Attachment Security Unlock Agent - In case you know better than Microsoft which files you should be allowed to receive in e-mail.
Information
- Make your .NET application support scripting - the practical way - Roy Osherove shows how to use the COM scripting control from your .NET applications.
- Updating a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network Using Software Update Services Server 1.0 - Bookmarked because I may need this for a client soon.
- Bad Analysis Worse Than None - Rico Mariani explains some of the pitfalls of naive profiling.
- Effective Forms Authentication, Part 2 - In which I package some authentication bits for easier reuse.
- Inside the ASP.NET 2.0 Code Compilation Model - Excellent article from John Lam.
Community
- First Impressions of ReSharper - Michael Yuan offers a review, with screenshots, of JetBrains' VS .NET plugin for C#.
Rants
- Order the Windows Security Update CD - OK, so it's really good that Microsoft will ship a CD with free security updates to people who use Windows XP, Me, 2000, 98, or 98SE. But it's really, really bad that it only includes updates through October 2003. Go over to Windows Update and see how many critical updates have been released since October. I'm sure we'll be hearing plaintive wails of "but I installed the Security Update!" after people's boxes get 0wn3d because they order this one and think they've fixed everything. C'mon, Microsoft, we all know you can do better than this.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.