Ashutosh Nilkanth's .NET Blog

Have you tried the beta release of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services yet? If so, please leave a comment on what you think of it. How does it compare to Crystal Reports 9?

Anyone using MySQL as a primary or secondary database system must checkout the MySQL Gotchas (a list of features or functions which work as advertised - but not as expected).

A friend from work sent me this list of Companion Tools for .NET development.

Dino Esposito provides an overview of Longhorn, focusing on the build-once, deploy n-times application model. In addition, he discusses XAML, that's used to create UI elements, then presents some working samples.

Here's an Excel spreadsheet illustrating network ports used by Microsoft products. The spreadsheet shows what network ports are used by the system services utilized by the Microsoft Windows Server System products.

Although not entirely related to .NET, Google Labs has a list of some really interesting whitepapers written by Googlers on stuff like Data Mining, Search Engine Design, Algorithms, File System Design, UI Design, Natural Language Processing and much more.

Jan Gray from the Microsoft CLR Performance Team wrote a while back on Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost. A very nice article to read.