While browsing on TheServerSide.NET I found a very nice DevelopMentor section. It has a lot of useful samples, tools and whitepapers on .NET and XML.
There is also a complete XML Quick Reference e-book available for download, which covers XML, XPath, XSLT etc.
There is a nice
article on the MSDN-site about database cache invalidation for ASP.NET 1.1. It shows how you can invalidate items in the cache based on changes in the database. It’s a relative simple solution that uses polling on a change notification table. In ASP.NET 2.0 database cache invalidation is implemented in the same way for SQL-Server 7.0 and 2000.
Yesterday Microsoft released the first beta of it's AntiSpyware software. In december Microsoft acquired Giant Company Software and used their engine to build this tool.
The AntiSpyware offers a system and a real time scan and some tools to get detailed information on running processes, downloaded ActiveX controls, IE and network settings. It also has SpyNet integration (probably because this is a part of Giant, so now a part of MS ;-)
The tool works very well for a beta, I did not encounter any problems using it. I will do some benchmarking with Adaware to see which is the better tool.