Professional Resources

Modified on 2009-07-21 04:46 by TaoK — Categorized as: C#, dotNet 2, IIS, SQL, VBScript

The web is a big place, and there is an awful lot of very useful stuff in it. Finding it is not always very easy, however. To help (myself, more than anything) with that I'm creating a section here that could be entitled "Links". Everything here is free unless indicated otherwise, I hate sites that link to paying services and products without warning you.

For now I'm just going to create a little-structured bullet list here. I'll clean it up into tables, add clearer formatting etc at a later time.

http://www.ordermotion.com/ - The best order management system in the world! (I should probably mention that I work there...)
SQL and SQL Server Stuff
- Nigel Rivett's site - lots and lots of great T-SQL "hack" scripts to perform complex tasks in SQL Server - any SQL Server DBA should have seen this stuff.
- Narayana Vyas Kondreddi's site - most famous for the sp_generate_inserts script that i seen all over the place, but some other interesting things too.
  - Detail here
- SQLServerCentral - now belongs to Red Gate, those monsters of the SQL Server world - but still fun for the daily quiz...
.Net Programming
- ASP.Net stuff
- Network programming
  - Creating a simple TCP tunnel service in C#
General web development
- Browser plugins and other wed development helpers:
  - Web Development Helper - very nifty, might not be very stable (unproven).The site is often down or slow, but the tool is worth it!
  - ieHTTPHeaders - Simpler tool to look at header data sent, and all data received, from an IE session
  - Fiddler - Microsoft HTTP proxy tool - efectively intercepts all traffic when it is enabled, and presents the data in many pre-parsed views. Very useful!
  - TCPTrace - Like Fiddler, this is used to log TCP traffic between a client ans server. It is MUCH more light-weight, however, and you know exactly what is does. It is a simple TCP tunnel, forwarding traffic in two directions, and logging everything that goes through. This is NOT limited to any program or any TCP port - it can listen on any local port that is not already taken and can forward to any port on any destination server.