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As I write this I see a 2005 C# text that should probably go and the .net 2.0 framework training kit text for the MCTS…anyone need a monitor stand? The books are yours!

http://www.amazon.com/Pro-LINQ-Language-Integrated-Windows-Net/dp/1590597893

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fn_GetElement
(
@ord AS INT,
@str AS VARCHAR(8000),
@delim AS VARCHAR(1) )
RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
-- If input is invalid, return null.
IF @str IS NULL
OR LEN(@str) = 0
OR @ord IS NULL
OR @ord < 1
-- @ord > [is the] expression that calculates the number of elements.
OR @ord > LEN(@str) - LEN(REPLACE(@str, @delim, '')) + 1
RETURN NULL
DECLARE @pos AS INT, @curord AS INT
SELECT @pos = 1, @curord = 1
-- Find next element's start position and increment index.
WHILE @curord < @ord
SELECT
@pos    = CHARINDEX(@delim, @str, @pos) + 1,
@curord = @curord + 1
RETURN
CAST(SUBSTRING(@str, @pos, CHARINDEX(@delim, @str + @delim, @pos) - @pos) AS INT)
END
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fn_GetProfileElement
(
@fieldName AS NVARCHAR(100),
@fields AS NVARCHAR(4000),
@values AS NVARCHAR(4000))
RETURNS NVARCHAR(4000)
AS
BEGIN
IF @fieldName IS NULL
OR LEN(@fieldName) = 0
OR @fields IS NULL
OR LEN(@fields) = 0
OR @values IS NULL
OR LEN(@values) = 0
RETURN NULL
DECLARE @fieldNameToken AS NVARCHAR(20)
DECLARE @fieldNameStart AS INTEGER,
@valueStart AS INTEGER,
@valueLength AS INTEGER
SET @fieldNameStart = CHARINDEX(@fieldName + ':S',@Fields,0)
IF @fieldNameStart = 0 RETURN NULL
SET @fieldNameStart = @fieldNameStart + LEN(@fieldName) + 3
-- Get the field token which I've defined as the start of the
-- field offset to the end of the length
SET @fieldNameToken = SUBSTRING(@Fields,@fieldNameStart,LEN(@Fields)-@fieldNameStart)
SET @valueStart = dbo.fn_getelement(1,@fieldNameToken,':')
SET @valueLength = dbo.fn_getelement(2,@fieldNameToken,':')
IF @valueLength = 0 RETURN ''
RETURN SUBSTRING(@values, @valueStart+1, @valueLength)
END

Download details: Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Posters.

My personal reference point:

VS-KB-Brochure-CSharp-Letter

Those rest posts:

http://developer.yahoo.com/dotnet/howto-rest_cs.html

http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2009/02/14/posting-data-to-a-rest-service-using-c.aspx

InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails.

The first item on my list was to implement compression on the site. The web server hasn’t been upgraded to IIS7 yet and I’ve long forgotten how to use compression with IIS6. The best resource I found was Scott Forsyth’s post on it (IIS Compression in IIS6.0 – Scott Forsyth’s Blog – thanks Scott). One item I didn’t do on the first implementation was add js and css files into the static file list so I’ll be doing that as well.

Up next is introducing URL rerouting to deal with dynamic content. I just have a hunch that using domain.com/artist/beyonce will be better than domain.com/artist.aspx?artistguid=dkfjdsfkjf. That obviously relates to SEO and after the URL rerouting is in place we’ll go through the results of a IIS SEO Toolkit examination as well as combing through the YSlow results.

A redesign is coming as well and I wish I there was a reason to convert it to a MVC app but it just doesn’t seem prudent.