At the blog #region /* mads's thoughts */ an important article is found called "COM objects need tight leash". It gives an example of increasing memory usage when working with the SharePoint object model and th Office interop components.

In that case it seems that the Garbage Collector was cleaning up the managed references which were wrappers around COM objects and these COM objects were not cleaned up.

I have had a similair problem in the past writing wrapper classes in C# around C++ unmanaged code. The unmanaged code was not cleaned up by the garbage collector ofcourse and you had to do that yourself.

USysWare has created a free collection of Visual Studio tools called DPack which provides a lot of extra functionality to the developer:

"DPack is a FREE collection of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005 tools. DPack is designed to greatly increase developer's productivity, automate repetitive processes and expand upon some of the Microsoft Visual Studio features.

DPack is a FREE collection of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005 tools. DPack includes various browser tools that allow the developer to quickly narrow the search down to a particular class, method or assembly type. DPack includes greatly enhanced numbered bookmarks feature, various code navigation tools as well streamlined surround with feature, and much more. New version introduces Solution Backup feature. "

http://www.usysware.com/dpack/

Patrick Tisseghem was going to speak about SharePoint site definitions and templates on the TechEd 2005 in Amsterdam, but his session agenda has changed. He will be speaking about another very interesting session:

Creating Dynamic Web Sites with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts
"Drill down on the new Web Parts infrastructure in ASP.NET 2.0. Learn how you can use Web Parts to build rich Web sites-enabling end users to dynamically control the layout of pages-and customize the properties of server controls."

We already had a session internally about this subject given by Mart. I will certainly be there as SharePoint Geek! :)

http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/archive/2005/06/09/4311.aspx

On the blog of Eric Javri we can read that November 7th is going to be the official launch date of Team System. The rest of the products like SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006 will be launched during the week of November 7th according to Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Server Applications at Microsoft.

MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/launch2005/

Presspass:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/TechEd2005Day2PR.mspx

FTPOnline:
http://www.ftponline.com/weblogger/forum.aspx?ID=1&DATE=06/07/2005&blog=#385

http://blogs.msdn.com/ejarvi/archive/2005/06/07/426490.aspx

Its very cool when you debug T-SQL in Visual Studio .NET. Just step from your code into a stored procedure in the SQL Server database. I found some articles at Microsoft about T-SQL Debugging in Visual Studio .NET which could be helpfull to setup your environment.

Setting Up SQL Debugging
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vxlrfsettingupsqldebugging.asp

Enabling SQL Debugging
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vxlrfsettingupsqldebuggingenablingsqldebugging.asp

Troubleshooting tips for T-SQL Debugger in Visual Studio .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817178&Product=sql

SQL Debugging: Unable to Start SQL Debug Session
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vxtbstroubleshootingsqldebuggingsetu
perrormessageunabletostartsqldebugsession.asp

If you know any other articles about T-SQL Debugging please don't hesitate to give a comment on this post. I will put it into the list. :)

At Rob Howard's blog we can read that CodeSmith 3.0 has been released since Monday May 16th. I agree with him that using code generation tools can save enormous time and prevents common mistakes by writing the same code over and over again.

"Code generation tools represent one of the most interesting areas where a tremendous amount of innovation opportunity still exists for improving the software development process. By automating the process of creating framework, database access, or other common/repeated code patters developers can save time, companies can save money, and users of the end product will get better solutions. Why? Instead of spending hours repeating the same logic flows, data access layers, or implementation frameworks just write it once as a CodeSmith template. That's right -- using .NET code you can write a template for how you want your code to be generated. It's still your code with your formatting your comments and your style -- CodeSmith just helps you write it faster. In fact, you could say it's like hiring your own personal army of developers!"

You can download a free 30 day trial version.

http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/archive/2005/05/17/407197.aspx

I like to write all my code in C# and therefore i sometimes have to rewrite some examples written in VB.NET. This website is a quick reference guide to highlight some key syntactical differences between VB.NET and C#. Thanks to Tom Shelton, Fergus Cooney and others.

http://www.harding.edu/USER/fmccown/WWW/vbnet_csharp_comparison.html