Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

The now obsolete System.Web.Mail was just a wrapper around CDONTS . David Findley has a neat article on migrating from System.Web.Mail to System.Net.Mail

Fiddler is an HTTP debugging proxy , developed by Eric Lawrence , that logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler enables you to inspect all HTTP traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. WinINET-based applications (E.g. Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, etc) should automatically use Fiddler while it's running and it can be configured easily to work with other browsers.

Neil Kandalgaonkar makes good use of the Google Search API ... " Spolsky released the chapter listing of [ Best Software Writing I ] in June 2005, and I noticed that a lot of them were blog posts that I'd read before. I wondered how much of the book was taken from online content. A few minutes of hacking later, and a programmed equivalent of Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" had found most every single chapter, or a page that was one degree of separation away. " Nominations for Volume 2 of the compilation are listed on the discussion group of JoelOnSoftware

Access 12's new data engine

Fetching metadata is much more easier with SQL Server 2005 than it was with SQL Server 2000's esoteric system tables . The system tables from previous versions of SQL Server are now implemented as a series of views called (appropriately enough) compatibility views. All of these views can be found in the sys schema. Find all tables in a Database (Then-Now) SQL SERVER 2000: select name from sysobjects where type='U' SQL SERVER 2005: select name from sys.tables