Custom configuration section handlers
I read Keith Ballinger’s excellent Web Services: Architecture and Implementation with .NET a few months ago, and it gave a fascinating approach to using XML ...
Missing compiler features from VB.NET
Having spent probably more time in the last couple of months on a project using VB.NET than I might otherwise have chosen, it seems to me that the same probl...
Wikis, Grafitti, and Process
Clay Shirky: Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity. When I was CTO of a web design firm, I noticed in staff meetings that we only ever talked ab...
Handling Errors in ASP.NET II
Brad describes using the Application Error event to catch application-wide exceptions and handle them gracefully. This is pretty much what I’ve been doing, ...
Updated RSS feed
Apologies to those people seeing a string of old posts from me in their RSS readers. I’ve updated my RSS generating code to (hopefully) correctly handle ETag...
POPFile and Outclass for spam
After reading Simon’s recommendation for POPFile a week or so ago, I decided that I would give it a go after all. I’d looked at it previously but decided not...
AndAlso OrElse
Paul Vick provides a bit of history about where the short circuiting logical operators got their names. One of the projects I’m working on currently is bein...
Handling Errors in ASP.NET
CraigBlog: This is where it pays to be friends with Fritz Onion. :) I pinged him, and he suggested a clever little hack (in the good sense of that word) to ...
Designing with a Wiki
Scott Watermasysk: In part 1 of the interview, Anders mentions an internal wiki that is used for the design process. I would love to read that some day.
MSBlaster and help written “by nerds for nerds”
The last week or so has been a depressing one for advocates of the Windows platform with lots of publicity surrounding the W32.Blaster.Worm that spread like...
ASP.NET Web Services documentation and derived classes
This is another gotcha that I ran into this week. The documentation pages generated by the ASMX engine don’t seem to handle derived/base class types correctl...
Automating signcode
Rob MacFadyen writes:
minOccurs=”1” and ASP.NET web services
One of the projects that I’m working on involves putting together a web service interface to a booking system so that business partners can integrate our inv...
iText JAVA-PDF library for .NET
Alan Flaherty: Try iTextSharp, I’ve been using it for creating rtf documents and it’s a really nice piece of work, (and its free :)). It’s a c# implementati...
Switching Source Code Control Providers
Scott Watermasysk: Anyone who needs to switch between Source Code Providers can not be without Harry’s latest utility: SccSwitch. VSS to GotDotNet to Vault …...
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 contains core Data Access components such as the Microsoft SQL Server OLE DB provider and ODBC driver. [ Microsof...
Webalizer Win32
Jeff Smith: There is a webalizer port for Win32. Works great. Make sure you turn off the built in reverse DNS lookup or it will take days to analyze any dec...