Web Server Usage Survey and Comparator

Port80 Surveys the Top 1000 Corporations’ Web Servers [http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000webservers/] versus Netcraft Web Server Survey [http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html]. So who’s winning? Vasanth Dharmaraj presents Comparator [http://www.vasanthdharmaraj.com/software/comparator/] – a slick tool (written in .NET, source code…

Longhorn Review @ CNET

John Morris from CNET recently reviewed Microsoft Windows Longhorn [http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-1-21008729.html?tag=cnetfd.glnav]. Its more of a non-developers point-of-view but a good read. John also mentions that the retail market cost of Longhorn will be the same as that of XP (according to Bill Gates)…

Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon

Rob Davis [http://www.softwaretestengineer.com/] has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing [http://www.robdavispe.com/free2/]. [via Siva Rama Krishna [http://geekswithblogs.net/srkprasad/]] Today, I also came across this control (for Avalon) called UltraGrid [http://www.infragistics.…

PDC Content and Multi-direction Treeview Control

FYI, the entire audio/visual content from PDC 2003 is available online [http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm] (via Microsoft). Also, Sean Gerety [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/metablog/posts/3841.aspx] has an interesting idea for a multi-direction treeview control (mockup below): [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/metablog/posts/3841.…

PDF's on-the-fly and Code in Indigo

iText# (iTextSharp) [http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/] is a port of the iText open source java library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. iText# is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. It is implemented as an assembly. [via Jay R [http://weblogs.…

.NET Tools and BizTalk

A friend from work sent me this list of Companion Tools for .NET development [http://www.csharpfriends.com/statics/tools.aspx]. For anyone into BizTalk (2002 or 2004b [http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/beta/] ), you must checkout the BizTalk User Group [http://www.biztalkug.com/]. Its a growing community with…

XAML Samples

Dino Esposito provides an overview of Longhorn, focusing on the build-once, deploy n-times application model. In addition, he discusses XAML, that’s used to create UI elements, then presents some working samples. A First Look at Writing and Deploying Apps in the Next Generation of Windows. [http://msdn.microsoft.com/…