Something you all oughta know but read it anyway ;)
Logging on as SA. It Never Fails

Hi,

I'm sorry it's been so quiet on my weblog :x I'm looking for a new job and it really takes up a lot of time.

Applied for a job with a very interesting company on Tuesday: Euricom.
They specialize in .NET development in Belgium and are claimed to be one of the most advanced companies on .NET here. Fingers crossed!

Read a nice article on Data Access: Tips for successful Data Access. I've also been reading about Indigo, the new hype in the crazy .NET world. Understanding Indigo

Ever wanted an easy to adapt menu in .NET. Here's a great article by Scott Mitchell.

ASP.NET Home: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control (ASP.NET Technical Articles)

Working on a little project for people to send in their CV's through the website. I'm using XML as the database. In my quest for information I came across this article.

307029 - HOW TO: Transfer XML Data to Microsoft Excel 2002 by Using Visual C# .NET

New to Object Oriented Programming?
Check this out:
DotNetJunkies: The Quick and Dirty .NET Guide to C#/VB Object-Oriented Programming

Ever wondered what is in your SQL Server's cache and how many times a cached item is used?
Check out the master..syscacheobjects table.

If you want to work with the database name just join the table with the sysdatabases.dbid field.

eg.

SELECT master..sysdatabases.name, master..syscacheobjects.objtype,
master..syscacheobjects.cacheobjtype, master..syscacheobjects.usecounts,
master..syscacheobjects.[sql] FROM master..syscacheobjects
INNER JOIN master..sysdatabases ON master..syscacheobjects.dbid = master..sysdatabases.dbid
WHERE sysdatabases.name = 'yourdbname'
GROUP BY master..syscacheobjects.objtype, master..sysdatabases.name, master..syscacheobjects.cacheobjtype, master..syscacheobjects.status, master..syscacheobjects.[sql], master..syscacheobjects.usecounts
ORDER BY master..syscacheobjects.usecounts DESC

You've probably all heard about WinFS, the next generation file system from Microsoft. Well, here's a very interesting story:
Microsoft unpacks details of Longhorn storage | CNET News.com


"Think of WinFS as pulling together relational database technology, XML database technology, and file streaming that a file system has," he said. "It's a (storage) format that is agnostic, that is independent of the application."

I found a nice blog post about .NET 2.0. It looks very promising, lets hope they live up to their promises.

Edgar Sanchez's .NET Blog