February 2005 - Posts
I use a windows 2003 server edition als my workstation at the office.
Here on NeoWin is a guide on how it should be done
List of the most downloaded of the bunch:
1. Proxy
2. Security Library
3. IniReader
4. WindowsController
5. Icmp
6. Multimedia
7. ProxySocket
8. CpuInfo
9. FileAssociation
10. StopWatch
11. Packet Monitor
12. CpuUsage
13. WaveFile
14. DiffieHellman
15. Whois
16. Url
17. ConsoleAttributes
18. DirectoryDialog
19. DropMyRights.NET
For downloads and more info:
The Free Projects.
The Free Classes.
Scott hanselman has put together a list of interview questions for .Net developers
Look at the list here.
I'll warn you though, I certainly didn't know all the answers to these questions so this could bruise your ego :)
Teaser: ( the fairly easy ones )
Everyone who writes code
- Describe the difference between a Thread and a Process?
- What is a Windows Service and how does its lifecycle differ from a "standard" EXE?
- What is the maximum amount of memory any single process on Windows can address? Is this different than the maximum virtual memory for the system? How would this affect a system design?
- What is the difference between an EXE and a DLL?
- What is strong-typing versus weak-typing? Which is preferred? Why?
- Corillian's product is a "Component Container." Name at least 3 component containers that ship now with the Windows Server Family.
- What is a PID? How is it useful when troubleshooting a system?
- How many processes can listen on a single TCP/IP port?
- What is the GAC? What problem does it solve?
Nsurvey is probably the standard in .Net survey applications.
It's free
It's 100% managed c#
It's multi language
It's extendible through custom events
It has a whole lot of result processing stuff including charts and exports to various formats.
It's also open source. recently wrote a couple of articles about extending the base of Nsurvey on his blog:
NSurvey - Survey Overview
NSurvey - Belgian Regions
NSurvey - Microsoft Layout
NSurvey - Matrix Questions
NSurvey - Answer Types
It looks like he will be adding other articles within due time :)
Details: From Rob Howard
Download here
Also Robert Mclaws will be releasing an upgrade utility from .Text to CS.
A while back one of my fellow bloggers here at BloggingAbout.Net made a posting about Oracle's code generation tools and how they kicked a lot of ass in the Rad Race.
And now they are out for Visual Studio:
Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET
Excerpt:
Use the Oracle Explorer to browse your Oracle schema, launch one of the many powerful designers and wizards to create and alter schema objects, and drag and drop schema objects onto your form to automatically generate code.
There's also a PL/SQL editor and integrated context sensitive online help, including the Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Users Guides. And with the Oracle Data Window you won't have to leave the Visual Studio environment for routine database tasks like inserting and updating Oracle data or testing stored procedures!