This was posted 12 days ago on this very site making the front page http://haacked.com/archive/2007/06/13/the-most-useful-.net-utility-classes-developers-tend-to-reinvent.aspx

DNK really needs a duplicate URL check or users who can be bothered to check.

Not only old but also has been on DotNetKicks more than once including last week.

Duplicate of http://www.dotnetkicks.com/aspnet/HTTP_compression_in_ASP_NET_2_0 submitted over 290 days ago.

Or if you want Visual Studio integration for $0 then try AnkhSVN.

I'm not prepared to pay $50 for the "last mile" of putting icons in my IDE when all the real hard work was done by the TortoiseSVN and SubVersion teams for free.

[)amien

Only worth avoiding if you know the exact format the date will be in. DateTime.Parse is otherwise still the best option for locale-aware date parsing.

The benefits will also probably be too small to measure with most browsers supporting gzip and IIS supporting gzip out-the-box.

[)amien

Alternatively SQL 2005 adds metadata support for tables and columns using the syntax:

SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = N'Products';

Where Products is the table you want.

[)amien

Selecting directly from the system tables is unsupported by Microsoft and is exactly why they created the sp_help stored procedure and it's associates.

[)amien

Alternatively check out the 1.0 RC of <a href="http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/">AnkhSVN </a> - a proper Visual Studio plug-in for using Subversion.

[)amien

This news was published 4 days ago here on DNK

Sorry Subtext messed with the URL when I revised the article slightly and now refuses to put it at the original URL. Thew new URL is;

http://www.damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/07/07/URL_parsing_and_manipulation_in_.NET.aspx

Check out my Envy Code B (or A) at http://www.damieng.com/damieng/Typography/Original/EnvyCodeB.aspx if you like your fonts pixel sharp without ClearType.

Otherwise Monaco, Anonymous and Vera Sans get my votes.

Really don't like the lower case g and a couple of other characters in Consolas.

[)amien