eggheadcafe.com articlesEggHeadCafe - The .NET developer's portal of choiceCreating A Custom XML Web Control- May 31, 2008 A complete walk through on the steps of creating a custom xml web control, using control designer, signing the assembly and implementing the control in a web form. read moreBy Graham Underwoodhttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=cb57f021be0abcbedf4c5185f0f3ca6d LINQ in Action: Marguerie,Eichert, Wooley Manning- May 27, 2008 Our "best book on C 3.0 LINQ" poll showed this book as the clear winner. This review tells why. read moreBy Peter Bromberghttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=9049d391e0e90ca6306f5f93413e3e90 SQL Server 2005 CTE (Common Table Expression)- May 21, 2008 CTE is a new feature provided by Microsoft SQL Server 2005. In real world, we often need to query hierarchical data from the database. For example, to get a list of hierarchical list of all the employees, list of product categories etc. CTE fulfills this requirement and let us query the database recursively. read moreBy Bihag Thakerhttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=79370a7b049a21f8e9ab928e49dd6e84 ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook by Bill Hamilton O'Reilly- May 19, 2008 If you are familiar at all with the "Cookbook" series from O'Reilly, then this is a book that will surely not disappoint you. The nice thing about this book is that it is near 955 pages covering all aspects of ADO.NET from simple things like connection strings for beginners, all the way through advanced LINQ queries for more experienced programmers, and just about everything in - between. read moreBy Peter Bromberghttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=f476ac8a2a3b0114476a4d49f2631621 SQL Server 2005 Paging Performance Tip- May 16, 2008 This quick tip demonstrates how to get the total rows as part of the paging query as well as how avoid a common coding error with joins that can harm performance. read moreBy Robbe Morrishttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=2e5243dade956e292abf9d8e370b7080 Fast KeyWord String searching Algorithms- May 12, 2008 This is a question that apparently comes up frequently: What is the fastest way to search a string of text for a bunch of keywords (e.g., a "badwords" list for cleaning or disallowing forum spam, etc.). To the average developer, two approaches come to mind: First, the "brute force" String.IndexOf method. Second, using REGEX to find matches based on an OR (xyz..) expression. read moreBy Peter Bromberghttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=e6b294ea1a80925e4c2ae9cb397819b0 Use the Google Reader API to purge old feeds- May 9, 2008 I've collected almost 3000 feeds in Google Reader. Find out how I used the not-public Google Reader API to purge old feeds. read moreBy Peter Bromberghttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=14465d331a856e218335a92242a896d9 ASP.NET Multi-Lingual Language Translations- May 6, 2008 Here are a few free (paid for by me) language translations of common software terms for use in your multi-lingual ASP.NET application. This is particularly helpful if you want to create a list of available languages in Spanish, German, Chinese, etc... read moreBy Robbe Morrishttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=eda60947af22046740a259c64487b04a |