Generic Conversion for DBNull and Nullable types

I recently learned about a very cool option in Visual Studio, the ability to extract an Interface from an existing class. This has made me much more comfortable in trying to adhere to a principle o…

When you get an email from a yahoo group list, for example, it might say it was sent from yourgroup@yahoogroups.com on behalf of the person who actually sent it. Both addresses will be included in …

I've finally moved my main development environment on my desktop to Vista, and had the issue that I still do quite a bit of work for one client in Visual Studio 2003 which is not supported. No prob…

Update: Fixed code changed from CTP and More in the series:

Lee Thé recenctly posted an article on SOA Governance based on coverage from the Enterprise Architecture Practioners Conference held last month in San Francisco. The article is an interesting conve…

While I'm waiting to find out if I'll be able to go to Tech·Ed again this year I am still keeping an eye on what's going on with the conference. For last year's Tech·Ed, Microsoft created a "Tips f…

Today, I was playing around with ASP.NET MVC Framework when I came to an interesting situation. I was displaying Categories from the Northwind database as ActionLinks. When clicked on the link it w…

Drag and drop support in a web application always get some attention. I used drag and drop support in one of my applications and I have to admit that it involved a lot of JavaScript code. You can c…

I was trying to host a small DNN application in one of our Server and I was facing couple of issues.

Have you ever been debugging code and examined the properties of an object? You get both the public properties and the private member variables! Why is that? Can this be avoided?

Note this article is primarily based on Microsoft/.Net technologies, although the principle apply to any technology.

Well if you've ever had the thought that you might want to actually jump out of a serviceable aircraft for kicks then this is a great location to do it?

All of us have probably written code like this:

I was working with log4net recently and had put a lot of the configuration information in the web.config file for an ASP.NET 2.0 web site. Ideally, this was not what I wanted because I want to be a…

Grrr... Just wasted lots of time on a stupid mistake due to misleading error message. I hate it when that happens.

The post Creating different CSS style selector definitions for different browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and IE 6.0) with subsequent comments describes that

I can only wonder about the stick this Pilot must have got once he landed back at base? As someone who was in the RAAF I've always had a certain affection for F18 as it looks like a serious "bird o…

I had an error that was been driving me up the wall, CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Pkcs' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Security.Cryptography'. This always happened while developing …

I have been working on getting around the concurrency issues that LINQ has while working with disconnected DataContext's in an nTier environment. I currently have a Timestamp field in all of my tab…