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July 2005 - Posts

Eastern States - Free Credit Reports September 1st 2005

Why the East was last and they couldn't roll it out 100% beats me; but on September 1st 2005, this site, provided by the major credit agencies will provide a free "Annual" credit reports.

Basically, they just automating what by law (in NJ at least) they must provide.

https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

Indy Project - Nice set of Open Source Projects

 

http://www.indyproject.org/

The Indy Project is an Open Source group that maintains several active projects that grew out of the original Indy.Sockets project.

Indy.Sockets

Indy.Sockets is an open source socket library that supports clients, servers, TCP, UDP, raw sockets, as well as over 100 higher level protocols such as SMTP, POP3, NNTP, HTTP, and many more. Indy.Sockets is available for C#, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic.NET, any .NET language, and Kylix. Indy.Sockets FCL build is a managed assembly and is compatible with the Microsoft .NET framework, and Mono.

Bubelen

Bubelen is a system for building and maintaining bubbles. A bubble is a piece of code for testing, developing, profiling, debugging, and stress testing. Bubbles are similar to boxes which are used in box testing (sometimes also referred to as unit testing), however bubbles are not designed with the only goal being testing.

Indy.Data

Indy.Data is a new project that provides a very unique data access layer in C# for ADO.NET.

Indy Soap

Indy Soap is a Open Source Library for implementing Web Services using Borland environments. IndySoap is not tied to Indy sockets for transport services, though Indy based transport services are included.

Posted: 07-30-2005 7:35 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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BizTalk 2004 Links

BizUnit 2.0 - Automated Testing tool

Test Framework for automated testing. enables the rapid development of test cases, specifically targetted by not restricted to testing BizTalk solutions.

Blog about it. http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinsmi/archive/2005/07/17/439728.aspx

Orchestration Profiler

Creates CHM report files illustrating the level of coverage for specified BTS 2004 orchestrations. This tool can be run to gain a consolidated view of orchestration tracking data for a specified period of time to help developers get an idea of how their orchestrations are being processed and how much coverage they are getting in their testing. In addition to simple coverage information the data presented helps to identify latency and code path exceptions by highlighting long running and error prone orchestration shapes.

 

Posted: 07-25-2005 4:59 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Lots of Hosted Training for SQL 2005

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tryit/hosted/sql/default.aspx

It's simple — no complex setup or installation is required to try out SQL Server 2005 running in the full-featured MSDN Virtual Lab. As part of the MSDN Virtual Lab, you will have full access to SQL Server 2005 through the following modules:

Posted: 07-24-2005 7:24 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Boot from a USB Stick...

This is a handy way to provide rapid access (boots & shuts down in seconds) to a Linux environment without messing with installs, kernel rebuilds, etc.  If you need access to a quick bash prompt to try some things out, this is the way to go.

http://www.fingergear.com/computer_on_a_stick.php

The Computer-On-a-Stick (COS) is a USB Flash Drive featuring its own Onboard Operating System together with a full suite of Microsoft Office-compatible applications.

The Computer-On-a-Stick also boasts the powerful Mozilla Firefox Web Browser, Evolution email, and Yahoo & MSN compatible Instant Messenger for superior Internet connectivity

Plug the Computer-On-a-Stick into your PC or Laptop and instantly transform your old environment into a new and powerful secure workstation - without a hard disk!

The combination of low cost and a powerful Onboard Operating System opens up a whole new paradigm of computing. Users get all the benefits of a thin client solution without changing their existing PC hardware or software.

WSE3 stuff on it's way. Can't wait till Nov 7...

Summary: Web Services Enhancements for .NET (WSE) is a product that enables you to build secure Web services quickly and easily. This article describes the driving goals behind the latest WSE 3.0 release, focusing on the major feature highlights and how these can be used to develop distributed applications based upon the Web service specifications. (28 printed pages)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwse/html/newwse3.asp

Posted: 07-22-2005 4:31 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security Book as a Wiki

There's been a port of the book The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security to a Wiki.

http://pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith.GuideBook/HomePage.html

Posted: 07-21-2005 9:08 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Funny Video on PDC 2005 Preparation...

Looks like it will be a series.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=79591

Series list:

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc/Default.aspx?viewtype=2

Outlook 2003 Process Hung on Exit

Not sure how many folks are having this problem but I've been having it on several machines all running Outlook 2003 - both non-Exchange & IMAP/POP access machines.

Lately it seems to be getting worse now that I've added the 2.5 version of Newsgator.  So today I did a search and found that fortunately (I hate to be alone) I'm not the only one with this problem.  That makes me feel better emotionally, but crap, Outlook just wont DIE!!!

So, found this post that basically says you need to close outlook from the "File, Exit..." menu item instead of using the Window Frame "X" icon.  Can this be true?  A product put out by Microsoft used my millions programmed in a way that a simple oversight in coding would screw up so many?

http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2005/05/12/416755.aspx

I haven't fully tested the "File, Exit" path yet, but I'll report back.  I did find some interesting utilities on that post (and other blogs referring to one of the utilities "Knockout".)

Knockout
Shutdown Admin
Naughty Software for Outlook...

 

Reflection tool (on Lutz Roeder's tool) for browsing SQL 2005 CLR Assemblies

Reflector.SQL2005Browser

The SQL 2005 Assembly Browser is a little add-in for Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector that can be used to browse .NET assemblies stored in a SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) database.
You can connect your local Reflector installation to a remote SQL Server instance, list the databases and its assemblies and download them directly into .NET Reflector.

http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/SQL2005Browser.aspx

Posted: 07-16-2005 7:15 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Great Resource on .NET System.Web.Mail

http://www.systemwebmail.com/default.aspx

This FAQ addresses questions and problems with System.Web.Mail (SWM).
It starts with an Introduction and Programming Samples. It concludes with resolutions to challenging errors and other resources.
Send questions, comments and suggestions to
dave@123aspx.com

Colleague was trying to use mail with authentication.  I immediately thought NOWAY, can't with .NET BCL, need to buy a control!!!  I was wrong..

http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/3.8.aspx

Posted: 07-14-2005 11:17 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Keep the MSFT CTP, Beta's Straight...

Community Technology Previews (CTPs) are regular interim releases of Microsoft technologies while they are still under active development. These CTPs have offered the community unprecedented near-real-time access to what is going on at Microsoft and they have enabled Microsoft to get customers’ feedback in a timely and relevant way. Microsoft offers CTPs for many of our major developer platforms including Visual Studio, the .NET Framework, WinFX (which includes Avalon and Indigo), and SQL Server.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ctpmadness

 

Posted: 07-13-2005 3:40 AM by cicorias | with no comments
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Print photo's for pennies

http://www.snapfish.com/

It's amazing how fast pricing has declined on photo printing services, not to mention the amount of storage they offer basically for free.  On Ofoto (now "Kodak Gallery") I have over 5 Gig of photo's up there spanning 5 years - still, haven't seen that bill yet for storage.

Great Tools List...
Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List
The Agile Programmer Community Blogs

http://www.agileprogrammer.com/

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