Chris May

This cool little tool will convert VB code to HTML. A cool think would be to write an HTTP Handler for a blog site that would simply look for CODE sections and dynamically convert the code in those sections to nice markup. I guess you could do it on save as well, but that wouldn't be as nice for editing.

This posting on the Community Server forums shows a hack way to integrate the CS into DNN.

This site can find out information about the server hosting any website. It's easy to see if it is running windows, or a *nix, and what kind of server, apache, IIS, what version etc.

This guy does for sure.

Give it a minute to load, its worth it.

There are lots of others at the root website.

Code That Grid is pretty amazing. Its basically a client side Excel sheet. Really neat.

I wonder how it would do with a ton of data though, if the javascript would slow to a crawl.

Tigra Scroller Pro has nice features like the ability to pause, FF, and RW, but I can't tell if you can show more than 1 item at a time.

AJScroller is pretty cheap (30 bucks) but it isn't an asp.net control. I might be able to extend it to do what I want.

This site has code to make one yourself, that I might be able to wrap into my own control if needed. Parasoft has a nice and cheap control, but it doesn't look like you can reverse it.

The Client Script tool compresses Javascript and JScript. It also encodes JScript and VBScript.

I wonder how they are doing this... how the client understands the obfuscated code I mean.

Album On Net offers some interesting controls for dealing with pictures, galleries and slideshows.

Its not the kind of rotator I am looking for, but could be useful on the project I am working on for Aarca.

ActiveUp has some interesting controls, demos are here.

Some of the more interesting ones were a "Page Loading" control, which takes over the screen while a page is downloading until the page has finished. This is pretty nice, and I could seem some use for it on some of our pages that do a lot of processing, or send down a lot of data in the form of a long grid or whatever.

Also, they have a page protector control, which basically disables the ability to copy and past from the page. Also, it take the content of the page, encodes it and sends down a javascript write command, so I guess if you looked at the source it would be a long encoded string. This would really discourage the avg person, but it wouldn't be hard to convert the string back your self.

Still, pretty neat.

Before I forget it, I wanted to make sure to put in a link to this article. It has some good ideas for how to deal with unwanted non-literal controls on the page.

I was doing some work this morning involving a custom asp.net control, and I was running into some stupid problems. Both of these articles, Chapter 14 Custom and User Controls, Programming ASP.NET: Custom and User Controls (espically the second article, which is really a 5 page article (links at the bottom) ), were really nice to reference.

WebSupergoo has some insteresting components. The one's that peaked my interest are the upload control, which includes a HTML progress bar and the Crypto component.

The Upload control is free if you link to their site.

This list from FTPOnline lists 8 tools for SQL Server. The 2 that caught my eye were the program to help you generate scripts and queries and the Veritas performance insight tool.

EM already has a designer for creating queries, but maybe this would be nicer.

Maybe the Veritas product would be able to help us figure out why some equipment reports seem to take 30x longer to run on some days. On the other hand, the description of the Veritas program is one of those "it does everything by magic" product listings, so maybe it sucks. And Veritas is always really expensive.

This DonXML article, and this Microsoft article both discuss ways to query an excel file from OleDB using the OleDB .net provider.

This article deals with creating a distribution list from ADSI/VBscript. I don' think this is the route we want to go, but it is worth looking over.

Data Sync from AppForge appears to be a way for you to sync data directly between a device and and back end server. I was going to be doing this with the help of an expensive add-on, which of course I already ordered, but if I could just write 1 set of code to do it this way, it would be really worth it. It looks like it comes with the new version of Crossfire, and doesn't cost anything extra. Also, it appears to have an SDK, and to have built in encryption.

FTPOnline interviews Tom Rizzo from Microsoft's SQL Server team. The discuss, of crouse, is around the upcoming SQL Server 2005.

Even though I already wrote my own modal dialog control, this might be worth looking over. This guy made a control that you can drop into an asp.net page and use. There are some things that are not 100% correct in the article, like the necessity for an IFRAME, but it still might be worth a read.

This product, called rDirectory is supposed to do something with AD. I really can't get a clear picture, and their "demo" is to sign up for a webdemo, which means I would have to talk to a salesman. I think it acts as a portal for accessing information stored in AD, but I should look into it further, maybe download a trial or look for a white paper.

I think I have already done 95% of the work needed to have my SyncAD program serve to maintain distribution lists as well, but MD sent me this link to some software that is supposed to do the same thing. Worth looking into.

Here is another article about storing images in SQL Server. In case that last one left something to the imagination.

I think I already read this article in the magazine when it came out, but it's a good reference.

This is a quick example of how to use the HttpWebRequest to act as a proxy for pulling down data from a URL.

WTF?

I haven't seen this product before, but just ran across it while searching for some other stuff. SQL Notification Services for SQL Server 2000 and 2005.

This could be a replacment for our EPS.

When you restore a SQL Database, the users in that database will often be orphaned because their SID will not match the SID of the user with the same name on the server where the restore is taking place.

This is basically the problem being discussed in this thread in the MSDN newsgroups.

The one really good solution that was given was to use a free utility called Sync SQL Logins. You can tell it to match all users based on name, and it will go ahead and update all the SIDs! Pretty cool!

These webcasts, totalling 7 hours, are supposed to be about microsoft's new "unified" methodology for distrubuted applications, code named Indigo.

I should probably watch them, or at least check them out. Indigo is "supposed" to allow one to create applications that would normally use .net remoting or webservices, w/o having to choose one or the other, but I really have no idea. Sounds like it might just be .net remoting over HTTP, but I will have to see.

This article shows an example of an extended datagrid which allows the header and columns to be "frozen", much like what I am doing with the header in the cost report. But this could lock down the left column as as well.

This Code Project article discusses a mechanism for building a "wait" page, much like how I am presently going about it.

One major differenace is that I was planning on using a page that would repost every 5 seconds or so, while the