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Firstly I must note that this could mess things up pretty bad in your code so keep that in mind before getting all to excited. I am talking about custom operators for classes and structures, that i…

Many of us have probably dabbled in setting up our own domain and forest for development purposes. For me - a domain is a must - I have my development environment that is heavily used to model deve…

This is used to "use list as a table", i.e. take a list of comma-separated values, and run queries on it.

In the last blog I wrote about Windows Communication Foundation performance comparison. The document available here: A Performance Comparison of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) with Existing…

I’ve been interesting in using SSIS ever since I first heard about it. Since I specialize in doing integration work, primarily with BizTalk, I was curious about this new “Integration Services” comp…

Visual Studio has this annoying habit of expanding the solution folder tree, especially when synchronizing with Visual SourceSafe. Even without that problem I sometimes find myself with many expand…

For almost two years now, I've been intending to write an article about the mysterious 'side effects' flag used in Microsoft Business Rule Engine policies. Microsoft documents this feature (see htt…

One of the new language features of the C# 3.0 language release is type inference. Wikipedia has an excellent discussion on type inference, including a non-technical and technical explanation.

System.IO.FileLoadException exception occur because a managed assembly is found but cannot be loaded. FileLoadException thrown when user and assembly does not have necessary permission for the load…

Here is a cool technique on how to identify which control has triggered the UpdatePanel (when dynamic controls are added during runtime). Here we will use the Request Object to identify this.

MS BRE: Fact Identity in the Microsoft Rules Engine, or how the author chased a non-existent bug

So I realize it seems like I'm posting a bunch of stuff on Oracle and little on .NET, but it's all related to a large Smart Client application we're developing for our client, using Oracle 10g; thu…

First of all, I'm using IE 6.0.2900.2180, Haven't test on other browsers.

You might receive the "pipeline component load() method failed on IPersisPropertyBag implementation" error message when you try to drag and drop a custom pipeline component into a pipeline stage. T…

One of the funny quirks with this prize is I actually suggested it as a prize a few months back – so not only was it accepted as a “stupid prize” but then I turn around and get it as the 5th place …

I was looking for something simple to get the file name for the selected file of an OpenFileDialog in C# today. Of course you can parse the string looking for backslash, etc. It annoyed me that the…

A plea out to all those who are using ASP.NET AJAX with sites on IIS7, either under Vista or Longhorn Server:

I was getting irritated this morning with some of the limitations of my Zune device and came across this great blog. I found it very helpful for moving and backing up my media files. What I'm refer…