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The Importance of Pet Projects

photo by Stephane Mahe, Reuters

Pet projects are important.  Really important.  There is no way to keep your technical edge in the workplace, without researching and practicing in other areas of the .NET Framework, based on day to day work exposure, alone.

Extract Files From ISO Images Without Additional Software

I decided to write reports for SQL Reporting Services.  They are fast, look great, and are oh-so-easy to access via the Web interface.  However, I discovered that Visual Studio versions must be paired to the SQL Server version.  I needed to install Visual Studio 2005, but had only the .ISO CD-ROM image available, and was unable to install software to extract the files.