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By Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, May 22, 2003
The kids are off to preschool again, and as a result the house is pretty quiet. Well, not really; I've got the stereo blasting for a change (The Orb, "Earth Orbit Two", at the moment). However, that certainly won't keep me from posting some yummy links for the morning, even if it does make it less likely that I'll answer the phone.
- SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a - Not required if you've already applied SP3. It does however let you apply the SP to the trial version of SQL Server, which is a good thing, and has some additional bug fixes. More information over here. But remember, you do want to be patched to at least the SP3 level, so if you're bringing up a new SQL Server box at this point, put SP3a on it.
- Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 Setup.exe Bootstrapper Sample - Demonstrates installing the Framework before your .NET app, if necessary. Better than what's built into VS .NET, not as good as what you'll get from any of the major installer vendors.
- dbcodegen - Tool to generate ADO.NET C# wrapper functions for SQL Server stored procedures. Commercial, free evaluation available, lots of samples of the code it generates online. (via Chris Sells)
- Outlook 2003 offers many new features, but it will cost you - An article I co-authored for TechRepublic.
- Documentation of Gator Advertisements and Targeting - Ongoing project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society to determine just what the scum over at Gator are doing when they sneak their spyware into your computer.
- Visual Basic .NET Internals - There is some digging in IL here, but there is also a lot of good advice on optimization and best practices in VB .NET, so don't ignore this one just because you don't think you care about internals.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.