Visual Studio has a nifty feature called Pre-Build and Post-Build events. These are used to include extra DOS commands before or after the build.

After all this hype around C# 3.0 where we will get, lambda expressions and many other thing I thought that it would be useful to have a deeper look at functional programming languages like F#. At …

The following demostrates how to retreive data from items within an Outlook folder (called "MySubFolderName" under the Inbox folder) using .NET:

Several people have tried out blogging from Word 2007 (as I am now) and are having problems with.Text. This issue is in the CookComputing.XmlRpc.dll and a dateTime error they fixed. This is used in…

Now that 2.0 (with its detection of accessing control properties from an incorrect thread) has become main stream there are numerous people realizing that they had many bugs in their 1.1 code.

public string HTMLEncodeSpecialChars(string text) { System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder(); foreach (char c in text){ if(c>127) // special chars sb.Append(String.Format("&#{…

Jeff Julian and John Alexander were nice enough to let me speak about the last night at the meeting. I've never spoken in front of that many people before, and it was quite an experience. I didn't …

FormView control is a template control and hence it allows other controls to be embedded inside it. You can also place a DropDownList control inside the FormView control. The code below populates t…

Alright, if you need to get down to the nitty gritty of Windows memory management like I have to right now, then you don't want to miss these four articles (one of which I posted earlier but will i…

This article is a Part 1 of the Interview Questions series.

If you've been using the SQL Server Management Studio that comes with SQL Server 2005 for a while, you might noticed this nice message box that shows all exception messages. Not only it shows the e…

It's feels a little Awkward to be writing something as simple as this but then again, maybe this is why no one has written it and Google couldn't help me find an answer:)

I like enums, but sometimes I wish I could provide a better mechanism for getting the descriptive name for the enum.

To use Mixed Windows Authentication one of the step is to set set authentication on one page only to be Windows Integrated, but not “allow anonymous”.(see instructions here and here). I wanted to d…

Ever wanted to try your hand at Game Development? Been itching to play with.NET 2.0 but needed motivation to get started? Then you need to take the Exclusive GeeksWithBlogs Game Design Challenge!!!

Finally, in Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft now supports XML Code Documentation. Visual Studio now ships with XDCMake.exe which creates XML Documentation files that we so enjoyed back in C#. Let's ta…

I came across this article after it was syndicated in newspaper.

Here’s a great JavaScript virtual keyboard on CodeProject. Helps in making your websites more accessible. Pretty simple to use too.

Below is a question that was posted to AZGroups earlier this afternoon. I removed the database and table names because I'm downright anal about security :)

If you're developing WinForm applications, generally at some point in the project you develop an Exception Dialog box that provides a user friendly interface for error messages. Usually, it's a gen…