Links (10/1/2006)

.NET, C#, VB.NET

1. MSN Search Service
2. Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities in .NET Configuration Files
3. **** Write Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost
4. throw; vs. throw ex; Here's the difference
5. Annotating your code with simple tests
6. What should you dispose when using ADO.NET
7. Customizable Error Providers
8. Simple Password Manager using System.Security
9. Cabinet File (*.CAB) Compression and Extraction
10. The Backside of Exceptions - "illustrates the risks of exceptions being thrown where it is generally not expected, e.g., a library function or a finally block, and shows ways to prevent some insidious errors (such as inconsistency of program data or loss of exception information)" - Idea of the Clean Result - continuation of the previous article.
11. Operator overloading with generics - using inheritance to allow use of C# operators

ASP.NET

1. ASP.NET 2.0 WebPartChrome
2. Spreadsheets in ASP.NET
3. Creating a Password-Checking function
4. Fundamentals of SharePoint Web Parts (Part II, Deployment Methods)
5. ASP.NET / AJAX Page Loader Progress Bar / Splash Screen
6. XML membership provider for ASP.NET 2.0
7. Searching in a GridView control
8. GridView Property EnableSortingAndPagingCallbacks

Design, User Interfaces

1. My gameplan for starting a new project from scratch - Jeremy Miller's take

Xbox360

1. Xbox360 Resolution Upgrade to 1080p - Looks like a software update will be availabe later this year. Nice!