Links: .NET Links to .NET Stuff
I set ’em up. I knock ’em down. I’m just going straight through the list of shortcuts to .NET reading material for my developer development:
Code Generators with .NET
Pierre Couzy, his MSDN article “Code Generators with .NET,” is a shopping list of code-generating tools. No at present time to explore here.
More ‘Stupid’ Reflection Tricks
John Dyer’s epistle, “Using Reflection to Bind Business Objects to ASP.NET Form Controls,” might not be relevant when ASP.NET 2.0 ships because of data access stuff I glossed over in a previous Blog post. I could be wrong about this.
Four Ditties from IanG
Ian Griffiths, his article about thread handling, “How To Stop a Thread in .NET (and Why Thread.Abort is Evil)” is worth the time. And this article must be surpassed by “Doing Work Without Threads,” but I am not sure of this because I have not really read it.
But his titles are so compelling. I just have to keep “Why Writing Into .NET Application Configuration Files Is a Bad Idea” and “You Don’t Need a ‘Main’ Form” on my reading list because the titles alone pique my interest.
Site pre-compilation in ASP.NET 2.0
ASP.NET media star Fritz Onion, his post “Site pre-compilation in ASP.NET 2.0,” does more than just list this new feature for MSDN marketing purposes. He takes a quick peek under the hood to see how this feature really works without writing a 30-page whitepaper.
The Don on XmlTextReader
In “Not the Way to Introduce XmlTextReader,” DonXML diligently polices us technical Web writers, our Blog posts. I think this criticism is healthy.
Temporary Admin for Your Limited User Account
DotNetRocks.com, its show #96 “Talking with Robert Hurlbut,” talks about least-privileged development. This discussion leads to some the limitations of the Run As… command and a tool called MakeMeAdmin. Hmm… this MSDN article looks relevant: “Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator.”
Harish Ranganathan on Denying access to View XML, XSL Files
Harish shows us how to use a httpHandlers configuration declaration to prevent browsing of files by file type. Keep it in your back pocket!
Another One from IanG
His title speaks for itself: “CLR Generics Limitation—Modifying Values In Situ In a Container.”
The ADO Guy on Table Manners
And another self-describing title: “Raise your hand if you know what DataAdapter.TableMappings is for...” I don’t quite see the problem here, as my use of the DataTableMappingCollection is limited to code auto-generated in the Windows Forms designer.
Reading the File System with .NET
The idea behind this sentence is that this article, “Database Developer Corner: Working with Files and Directories,” will detail how my VB6 handling of file system access can be updated to the .NET world. I might have to print this one out instead of skimming over it in a browser window.
Inline Documenting Using VBCommenter
Visual Basic .NET does not have any self-documenting features. The next release of VB.NET is supposed to make this go away. In the mean time, Wei-Meng Lee of Developer Learning Solutions writes for MSDN, “Generating Documentation for Your Visual Basic .NET Applications,” to introduce an add-on called VBCommenter. I tried it. It does not support parameters. Other than that, it works fine. I’m pretty sure that this limitation is due to VB.NET’s support for optional parameters.