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