So I gave a talk at the Jeff City.NET Users Group on Wednesday, November 10th based on my “Little Wonders” series of posts. I spent most of my free time this week getting this presentation together…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the.NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pas…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the.NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pas…

XAML being XML-based, it needs to be parsed and processed when the code is loaded in the application. WPF allows multiple scenarios, for example pre-compiling the XAML to BAML (binary application m…

This example shows how to create a very simple registration form in ASP.NET WebForms.

Martin Hinshelwood wrote an excellent post recently (https://geekswithblogs.net/hinshelm/archive/2010/09/16/team-foundation-server-2010-event-handling-with-subscribers.aspx) about a new type of int…

When you are calling DirectorySearcher.FindAll() and there is a chance to have more than 1000 records back, you must set PageSize to non-zero value, preferably 1000. Otherwise only the first 1000 r…

Many a times we find a need to download a file on doing a AJAX POST request.

Ran into a problem that needed solving that was kind of fun. I’m not a XAML guru, and I’m sure there are better solutions, but I thought I’d share mine.

There’s been some about an old debate between Feature Branches vs Feature Toggles. I used to be firmly in the Feature Branches camp, but about a year ago (at the ALM Summit) I became convinced that…

\[16th Dec 2009 – have spotted a small final missing } in the Office XML sample code. Will get that updated with any other changes \]

While working on a Data Form in an ASP.Net application you might want to get a value from the user that corresponds to the Enum you created in your Business Layer. Since Enum types are not strings …

If you are developing ASP.NET you can easily use the Application\Error event within the Global.asax Syntax file for your global exception handling needs.

1\. Click Start, and then click Run. 2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK. 3. Locate, and then click the following registry key: HKEY\LOCAL\MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Servic…

Recently I was working with data from a generic List<T> and one of my objectives is to get the distinct values that is found in the List. Consider that we have this simple class that holds the foll…

Top Bar, Ribbon, Quick Launch are come up with Application Pages by default. If you want to open the page in Dialog Framework then those elements will take more space and make the layout cluttered.…

I came across this by accident the other day and thought it was really neat. So I wanted to share it to help karma balance my last post (more on that at the end). As I’m sure you know, Silverlight …

If your website uses the AppPoolIdentity and requires access to the private key of an x509Certficate, you’ll need to grant the read permissions to the iis application pool.

One of the first things you will want to do after installing visual studio is to set it up to automatically pull down the correct symbols for system components when debugging. You do this by config…