Computer Weekly - Tuesday 24th October 2006

Includes articles on identity management and web accessibility.

Seems to be a load of hype on the internet identity stuff at the moment.  Heres two interesting links:

A blog post about "OpenID standards":
http://netsquared.org/kaliya

Microsofts InfoCard:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/04/SecurityBriefs/

There are also links there to the main sites.

Barry

Unless you really enjoy programmatically creating user interfaces and like the sound of 'Web Part Definition files', there is a much simpler way to develop custom web parts for use in Share Point websites...

A bunch of thoughtful guys have put together a container application which you can drop regular ASP.Net user controls into so they can be used in a Share Point website. The same container also exposes the Share Point namespace so this can be manipulated from within your own user control.

All you have to do to use this is download and install the container application called SmartPart:

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/community/columns/u2u/smartpart.mspx#What%20is%20the%20SmartPart?

http://www.smartpart.info

How smart is that?

Will

I found this interesting site and article: Transact-SQL Query SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips. 

It is kind of back to basics with regard to writing queries but I found it useful refreshing on some of these when looking at making changes to the reports queries.

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/transact_sql.asp

See also

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/vk_sql_best_practices.asp

for a coding standards style guide to queries.

I think this is a really interesting interview; both to learn about subsonic (which we should try out) and for some excellent thinking about approaches to development.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=199