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Indexing Technology

Even by today’s standards FoxPro’s indexing is still impressive.  Calvin Hsia shows details about the indexing and compression techniques used in FoxPro indexes.

posted @ Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:21 PM | Feedback (61)

Software Developement Process

Collection of links and articles for future reference

• Implementing and Promoting Daily Builds [15seconds.com]
• Bug Reporting Best Practices [MSDN Product Feedback Center]
• Code Review with FxCop and DevPartner [David Boschman]
• Code Review with a focus on performance – Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 [David Boschman]
• Key motivations for iterative development [David Boschman]
• Some golden rules to adhere to when thinking about features [Darren Neimke]
• OpenCollective - Requirements Management Wiki [CodeProject]
• The Mozilla Development Process [Darrell Norton]
• IoC is the new black [Mitch Denny]
• Testing Windows Forms (or, code road from dev to test) [Shawn Burke]
• .NET Design Principles [Jason Gorman]
• FxCop Rules [David Kean]
• Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio Part 1, Part 2 [Mai-lan]

posted @ Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:17 PM | Feedback (1780)

Framework Internals

Links to blog posts and topics I wish to revisit in the future.

• Why do we support pinned objects? [Brad Abrams]
• Switch on strings in C# [Brad Abrams]
• Called from finalizer method? [Brad Abrams]
• HTTP Assembly Download [Alan Shi]
• Registration-free COM Interop [Alan Shi]
• Application Configuration Files and HREF EXEs [Alan Shi]
• Composite Metadata [Clemens Vasters]
• Assembly Binding Policy [Alan Shi]
• Use an AppDomain to run code (and replace GC.Collect calls) [Richard Lowe]
• ASP.NET Authentication Flow [StronglyTyped]
• Creating Document Centric Applications in Windows Forms, Part 3 [Chris Sells]
• Use the caching application block to write alternate data streams in NTFS [Richard Lowe]
• Add-in Shimming Wizard [Eric Carter]
• IPropertyChange Today: Whidbey-Style data binding with PropertyDescriptor [IanG on Tap]
• How to integrate your own XML document types into VS.NET projects [Ralf Westphal]
• Tailor your application by building a custom forms designer with .net [Sayed Hashimi]
• ASP.NET HTTP Module for URL redirections [Fabrice Marguerie]

 

posted @ Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:55 PM | Feedback (64)

Heirarchical Queries in SQL Server 2005

Dan Sullivan shows how to use Common Table Expressions  to query hierarchical data in SQL Server 2005. Hierarchical queries combine recursive SELECT commands to provide the functionality to query self-referencing data.

Hierarchical queries are useful in HR apps for employee->boss representation, in financial applications for accounts chart hierarchy and in inventory applications where parts can be assembled from other parts.

posted @ Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:23 PM | Feedback (0)