Recently I ran into an issue with the SOAP adapter giving me the error 'Failed to Serialize the Message Part 'Foo'' ever so often. If I sent 20k messages through I was maybe getting about 100 messa…

In a previous post I proposed a Generic class for building custom types using NHibernate. This lets us keep our Domain entities free from requiring hidden fields or other methods to persist Value O…

I started getting the following error in one of the site that I am recently installing ( win 2000,.Net 1.1)

Are you tired of having to go into the BizTalk Admin tool to terminate any suspended Orchestration instance before you want to redeploy? Scripting this task is simple using WMI. Just create a file …

If you have used SqlDataSource control with the GridView, FormView or the DetailsView and updating the data in the database using the UpdateCommand and UpdateParameters of the SqlDataSource control…

This post gives a little info about how to repair an LCD projector that has a washed-out and yellowing image, which results from the blue LCD panel weakening over time. I would have to guess that a…

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Some of the C# code I've been writing recently communicates via TCP/IP with legacy C++ applications. These applications use a raw packet format where C/C++ structures are passed back and forth.

I was so overwhelmed with the news of becoming a new MVP Lead for Canada that I had to be reminded over MSN to do so (Thanks Kate). So, yes, it is official. I will be the new MVP Lead for all Canad…

Once you write a blog post, it is good to have your editor ping a few of your favorite blog post repositories to help drive traffic to you blog. Windows Live Writer (Beta) allows you to setup a lis…

PLEASE NOTE: I will NOT email you the service manual. I get several requests per day to send the manual to people. I tried to make the manual available via the link below. If that works for you, gr…

I’ve been forced in to using vb.net for a windows service project which scans a folder of xml files, they need to be processed in order of the files modified date & time. Directory.GetFiles returns…

Live Writer is another great tool for posting blogs offline. I used to use w.bloggar, but the site is down and who knows what is going on with the writer. Configuring Live Writer is very easy to do…

ASP.NET 2.0 provides a great feature of creating Bread Crumbs. Bread Crumbs appears as links or images and shows the user his current position in the website. This means if you are in horror books …

Assume that you have a dual boot system with Windows XP and Windows Vista and you have gotten sick and tired of Windows Vista (like myself) and you want to restore the Windows XP bootloader. Now th…

Here's an attempt to generalize (sorry Haack) various Value Objects I need to be mapped using NHibernate.

There's been an interesting discussion going on in the TDD mailing list, discussing the benefits (or lack of) of using mock objects and mocking frameworks. The discussion focuses on doing top-down …

As many of you know it's possible to generate a XSD Schema, from a Xml Instance, there are many tools for doing it (XmlSpy, Biztalk Server, Custom Tools,...), but i needed a simple tool for doing i…

Wanting to create an Money object in my application, I first read Fowler's description in his PoEAA book and then looked at JP Boodhoo's implementation here. This post requires at least a look at h…

The System.Collections.Generic namespace contains interfaces and classes that define generic collections, which allow users to create strongly typed collections that provide better type safety and …