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I found another online code converter this time by SharpDevelop. This will convert between C#, VB,  and Boo.  They also have a web service.

Finding a way to use system.io.compression for zip archives

 

Link to Coding Horror: What's In a Version Number, Anyway?

I would agree with the contention that meaning full version names for the end user are best left to the year published. Point 2007.  But what then would you do if you have two releases Point 2007 sp1? could you sell a service pack?  Or perhaps Point 2007 R2.  I don't know what R2 stands for( Release 2).  At the very best this is not a question "developers" need be concerned with.  Strictly speaking Marketing will decide what "version" the user should see on the splash screen.  When it comes to the internal versions what Dev, QA and Support refer I like (Major).(Minor).(Full year).(days since January 1st).  Don't ask about two builds in a day :)

 Today I am just an aggregator.  Anyway if your into .NET 3.0 Irena has a very neat trick.

Link to AppDev: Something You Should Know by Irena Kennedy : SYSK 289: Want to Have a Choice of Running an XBAP Application in a Standalone Mode Using the Same Project File?

One more reason for to support SQL 2005. 

Link to Jon Galloway : Passing lists to SQL Server 2005 with XML Parameters

You may have already seen this, and I know I missed it for valentines day but check our the .Net love stories. 

.NET - A Love Story

.NET Love Story Continues...

CSharp-Source  nice resource listing different categorized CSharp based open source projects.

I found this product on CodePlex this morning and while I need to find some time to really play with it, I thought I would share.  Basically Visual WebGui is and adding for Visual studio that lets you more or less use winforms to for your website( Cool AJAX) 

Visual WebGui Quick Starts

Does P2P effect legal music sales? 

P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero"

I have seen odd things in Vista related to performance,  Typically I have been uninstalling the offending software. Rick found a link to UAC 

User Account Control and Application Slowdowns - Rick Strahl's Web Log

I personally don't think so highly of UAC, generally your typical user is just going to click allow because all of us "Bad Software Developers" will teach them to do so.  My gut feeling is, I am a uber user and thus find it far more annoying then lets say my Mother would.(Although the UAC prompt is almost as scary as an anti spyware/virus prompt.  So maybe the system will never get turned on, which would be safe.  Right?)  If we as developers work in our sand box, then UAC probably won't be as big an issue as Apple's commercial would like to make it.