I was trying to create a movie out of photos I shot during my recent new york visit. This URL is pretty useful and it has lot of links which will ake you a good film editor: "Burn a Movie Maker Project to DVD"

Get Oracle schema syntax the easy way: "

Get Oracle schema syntax the easy way"

Oracle FAQ: SQL: "Can one retrieve only rows X to Y from a table in Oracle?"

TheBest site to learn Data Grid manipulation...

The Code Project - A Practical Guide to .NET DataTables, DataSets and DataGrids - Part 1 - C# Programming

Cutting Edge: Binary Serialization of ADO.NET Objects -- MSDN Magazine, December 2002: "Binary Serialization of ADO.NET Objects"

Improving DataSet Serialization and Remoting Performance: "This article discusses performance optimization for larger .NET Framework System.Data.DataSet classes and provides a sample serialization wrapper class that is optimized to more efficiently serialize and deserialize larger DataSet classes."

.NET Zip Library #ziplib (SharpZipLib): "The Zip, GZip, BZip2 and Tar Implementation For .NET. This site helped me to get Opensource for gzip implementation"

Speed Web delivery with HTTP compression: "I had a requirement where I need to compress the dataset passed around. I saw this article pretty useful to my thought process.... Speed Web delivery with HTTP compression"

Understanding Enterprise Services in .NET

Enterprise Services FAQ: "[1.5] How can I debug a serviced component?"

ask the wonk: "How do I make one project item, say an XML file, be copied to the output folder when the project is compiled? My code assumes that the file is in the same folder as the compiled executable. I want to avoid having to manually copy that file every time. "

Valery's blog - A reason to avoid default VS.NET 2003 projects location; a bit of COM+; and some other findings.

If you have trouble in setting up web.config/app.config entries for COM+ componenets. Please read this blog.

You receive the "Requested registry access is not allowed" error message when you try to create a custom event log: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Security.SecurityException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
Additional information: Requested registry access is not allowed"

patterns & practices: Enterprise Library: Message Board: Thread: "Database String Encryption Posted on: 05/05/2005 13:56:32


here is a specific site for patterns and practices at www.pnplive.com, on there it lists all the webcasts and includes links to them, the slides and some hands-on labs which are really good for starting off. Its a really good place to start from.

If you just want the encrypting connection string, its around 19:50 in on the Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block (see address at top)"

How To: Switch Source Control Providers in VS.NET (Redux): "How To: Switch Source Control Providers in VS.NET (Redux)
Following up on yesterday's post, here's the manual procedure from the ever-helpful folks on the Team Development team in Microsoft Product Support Services:
WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

To change source control providers, follow these steps:
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK to open Registry Editor.
In Registry Editor, expand the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SourceCodeControlProvider\InstalledSCCProviders
In the right pane, double-click the registry key of the source control provider that you want to use (for example, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe), and then copy the data of this key to the clipboard (for example, Software\Microsoft\SourceSafe).
In the left pane, click SourceCodeControlProvider.
In the right pane, double-click ProviderRegKey.
In the Edit String dialog box, replace all of the text in the Value Data box with the contents of your clipboard, and then click OK.
Close the registry editor.
Restart your application for the changes to take effect"

Understanding Enterprise Services in .NET: "Understanding Enterprise Services in .NET. Good article which clearly talks about using Enterprise services. If you need transaction enabled Business components, Please read this article... "

ORA-12152: TNS:unable to send break message: "ORA-12152: TNS:unable to send break message" This error happens when Oracle connection terminated and associated aspnet_wp.exe is still running