The Morning Brew

A little light on content today as this post was prepared the night before - hopefully by the time you are reading this I will be half way to the UK ‘Heroes Happen {Here}’ Launch Event in Birmingham.

Software

• Windows Vista SP1 Released to Windows Update - Vista SP1 is now available on Windows Update, although my machine isn’t showing it in the list of updates yet - although this post does outline some cases where the update isn’t available.
• IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module Released - ScottGu unveils a bandwidth throttling library for IIS7

Information

• SQL Server 2008 and Unstructured Data - This post talks of the 2 new ways of storing binary data in the database - and also reminds us that IMAGE is likely to be removed in a future release
• Modifying LINQ Expressions with Rewrite Rules - A (long) article detailing a technique for changing queries dynamically at runtime
• A Set of Useful Extension Methods for DateTime - Fredrik Kalseth presents 11 extension methods for dates - with source provided too
• A Templated ASP.NET RSS Feed Reader Control - Stefan Sedich creates a control for reading RSS feeds using .NET 3.5

Community

• Liverpool Users of .NET - Second official meeting of the Liverpool.NET User Group is planned for 17th April 2008