This open source plugin ships as part of SharpTools 2.0 and is a full-featured RSS / Blog aggregator which integrates into the familiar dockable panes of the Visual Studio.NET IDE.

Features include:

• Support for folders or individual feeds
• Drag-and-drop support for feeds and folders
• Preview a new feed as you add it
• Easy control of all feed properties
• Automatic and on-demand refresh of feeds
• Automatic feed search based on a site URL
• Keyword searching for published feedsusing Synic8
• Keyword search within all subscribed feeds
• Import of feed subscriptions from an OPML file

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There are interesting tutorials by David Hayden

• Enterprise Library - Logging and Instrumentation Application Block - Patterns and Practices
• Data Access Application Block Revealed - Factory Methods and Reflection
• Enterprise Library - Data Access Application Block (DAAB) - Patterns and Practices
• Enterprise Library - Cache and Configuration Application Block - Patterns and Practices
• Enterprise Library - Configuration Application Block - Patterns and Practices

A lot of people have heard about the discussion between log4net and the Enterprise Library Logging Block.

The Enterprise Library Product Manager, Tom Hollander, has posted a write-up .

Go take a look.

This will create an XML file that has your url’s that are refered to, hit count, and the referrer.

try

{

    Type comLogQueryType = 

        Type.GetTypeFromProgID("MSUtil.LogQuery", true);

    object comLogQueryObject = 

        Activator.CreateInstance(comLogQueryType);

    // Get the IIS Input and XML output filters

    Type ws3LogType = 

        Type.GetTypeFromProgID("MSUtil.LogQuery.IISW3CInputFormat", true);

    object ws3LogObject = 

        Activator.CreateInstance(ws3LogType);

    Type xmlLogType = 

        Type.GetTypeFromProgID("MSUtil.LogQuery.XMLOutputFormat", true);

    object xmlLogObject = 

        Activator.CreateInstance(xmlLogType);

    // Setup input and output files

    string inPath = "someIISlog.log";

    string outpath = "temp.xml";

    // Create a SQL query to get the referers, count and uri-to. Order by total hits

    string query = 

        "SELECT cs(Referer) as Referer,cs-uri-stem as To,COUNT(*) as Total from " +

        inPath + " TO " + outpath +

        " WHERE (sc-status=200) AND (Referer LIKE 'http:%') GROUP BY Referer,To ORDER BY Total DESC";

    // Invoke the ExcuteBatch method

    object[] inputArgs = {query, ws3LogObject, xmlLogObject};

    comLogQueryType.InvokeMember("ExecuteBatch", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, 

        null, comLogQueryObject, inputArgs);

}

catch (Exception e)

{

    string errorString = "An exception has occurred: " + e.Message;

    Console.WriteLine(errorString);

}

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Features:

• Can be run by any user (service needs to be installed by an administrator).
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• Defrags NTFS, FAT^** and FAT32^** filesystems on any media (HD, Zip^TM/Jaz^TM, Floppy, etc).
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• 100% safe and interruptable. This program doesn’t actually move the files - the OS does it. Even if you suffer a power failure while it’s working, you run no higher risk of file system corruption than you would if you had happened to be saving a file from any application.
• Boot-time defragmentation.

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