If you're a modder, and maybe even if you aren't, you could be in danger of turning your 360 into a brick, courtesy of Microsoft's latest firmware update on the 360. Tread with caution and read the…

Okay, this one took me a while to figure out, but nonetheless I found it and will share it.

Cooperative Application Shutdown with the CLR

When debugging WebParts not knowing which w3wp process to attatch to has always bugged me. Thankfully ASPalliance has this article to show you how to identify the w3wp process for an app pool.

Tiers are physically separation of tiers means in different projects, dll or exe. When we talk about Layers means logical separation of tiers.

Lately I have been having a crisis of faith about MonoRail and have been looking at ASP.Net again. All of the neat controls, and IDE support are sooooo tempting. So late last night I happened to ca…

This seems to be a very common problem where by your event handler method gets run twice.

In three tier architecture when BL class calls DAL to retrieve data from the DB we are having two options to get these data one is DataSet/DataTable and another one is DTOs (Data Transfer Objects).…

If you want to completely disable time synchronization in the guest, open the virtual machine's configuration file (.vmx) in a text editor and set the following options to FALSE.

While designing DAL layer we normally stuck with one debate, Stored Procedures or Embedded SQL Query? I also faced the same problem. I searched on the internet, read some books and discussed with s…

The way an ASP.NET request is handled by IIS is quite different in IIS 6.0 when compared with 5.0. In 5.0, the ASP.NET worker process is handed off control by the aspnet\isapi extension in IIS. The…

Recently, I was trying to delete a windows service. Normally it should not be necessary to manually delete a service. Uninstalling an application should remove its associated service (if any).

> Hi, My mother just bought a new Camry '07 as well and we both had a question and we cant seem to find an answer anywhere. We were wondering what the differnce is in the gears on the shifter, like…

Brian, who runs the excellent Blogcast Repository, recently shared with me how he could not use a host computer's wireless NIC with a guest OS when running Virtual PC when Windows Vista is the host…

The struct type is suitable for representing lightweight objects such as Point, Rectangle, and Color. Although it is possible to represent a point as a class, a struct is more efficient in some sce…

There is no sample for this, but if I get enough requests (say five or so) I'll create one and post it.

Here are some pointers on how to use Windows Explorer, in Microsoft Windows XP Professional from the Command Line.

By default, when a stand-alone instance of Microsoft SQL Server exists in a cluster environment, the SQL Server-based instance is set to start automatically. If the host node is rebooted, you may r…

I am sure everyone else has already figured this out but thought I'd jot it down here.

In this article, I have assumed that the reader is aware of the basic functionality of Subversion. This article has been written to make the usage of Subversion more efficient and more effective, a…