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KB Research Links

These links are stacking up and need to be cleaned out of my Firefox workspace. These are research links for future SonghaySystem.com Funky KB articles.

“Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility”

This article reveals the existence of yet another chaos management tool from Microsoft.

“How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP”

Yet another Windows hygiene article shows that XP has the same old problems.

“PHP Caching to Speed up Dynamically Generated Sites”

This article was collected based on the assumption that a future Songhay System Web would be based entirely on XML and XSLT.

“Problems with XPath in PHP 5”

This article represents a psychological crutch supporting the realization that XML support in PHP5 is relatively fragile.

“SimpleXML and namespaces”

This article reveals the ‘special’ steps one has to take to read XML in PHP 5 containing namespaces—more psychological support with a bit more technical help. Another article, “XML Namespaces” does more of the same.

“VS 2005 Intellisense in web.config files”

Scott’s post does not work out as advertised when you come away with the assumption that all web.config files with a clean <configuration> element opened in Visual Studio 2005 will turn on IntelliSense. There must be other dependencies at work here—probably in place in a “default” 2005 Web project.

“Sitemap Macro”

“I wrote a Visual Studio macro to walk an ASP.NET 2.0 project and create a web.sitemap based on the physical layout of files.”

http://metasapiens.com/PageMethods/

“PageMethods takes care of your URLs. It proposes a solution to define structured URLs for each of your pages, as well as a clean and simple way to call them.”

“Encrypting Web.Config Values in ASP.NET 2.0”

“One of the cool new features in the configuration system with ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to encrypt any of the values stored within them (note: this works with any configuration section—including ones you build yourself). This is obviously important when storing sensitive information like connection strings—and now enables you to avoid having to roll your own solution.”

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