Stories kicked by shiny http://www.dotnetkicks.com/ en-us Atweb Publishing Ltd. http://backend.userland.com/rss DotNetKicks.com - .NET links, community driven 30 Jon Galloway offers his advice on creating your own zip library. SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can't use it due to the GPL license? I'll look at a few options, ending with my favorite - System.IO.Packaging. <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/kick/?url=http%3a%2f%2fweblogs.asp.net%2fjgalloway%2farchive%2f2007%2f10%2f25%2fcreating-zip-archives-in-net-without-an-external-library-like-sharpziplib.aspx"><img src="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http%3a%2f%2fweblogs.asp.net%2fjgalloway%2farchive%2f2007%2f10%2f25%2fcreating-zip-archives-in-net-without-an-external-library-like-sharpziplib.aspx" border="0" alt="kick it on DotNetKicks.com" /></a> http://www.dotnetkicks.com/tipsandtricks/Creating_Zip_Archives_In_Net_Without_An_External_Library http://www.dotnetkicks.com/tipsandtricks/Creating_Zip_Archives_In_Net_Without_An_External_Library Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:16:03 GMT This introductory level post covers a new LINQ feature in C# 3.0 called anonymous types. I'll focus on explaining when you might want to use an anonymous type, and when it might be more useful to use a specific type instead of an anonymous type. <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/kick/?url=http%3a%2f%2fblogs.msdn.com%2fcharlie%2farchive%2f2007%2f09%2f26%2fchoosing-not-to-use-anonymous-types-in-query-expressions.aspx"><img src="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http%3a%2f%2fblogs.msdn.com%2fcharlie%2farchive%2f2007%2f09%2f26%2fchoosing-not-to-use-anonymous-types-in-query-expressions.aspx" border="0" alt="kick it on DotNetKicks.com" /></a> http://www.dotnetkicks.com/csharp/Anonymous_Types_and_Query_Expressions http://www.dotnetkicks.com/csharp/Anonymous_Types_and_Query_Expressions Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT Some tips how to optimize Web Service performance <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/kick/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.codeproject.com%2fuseritems%2fwebserviceoptimization.asp"><img src="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.codeproject.com%2fuseritems%2fwebserviceoptimization.asp" border="0" alt="kick it on DotNetKicks.com" /></a> http://www.dotnetkicks.com/webservices/Web_Service_Optimization http://www.dotnetkicks.com/webservices/Web_Service_Optimization Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:21:00 GMT