Activities are the blocks with which a workflow is build. Every activity developed for the ready-made workflows used in SharePoint, Office Designer, and those which are self-developed, are all done…

While working with Visual Studio 2008, I would constantly get exceptions thrown at me while working with any ASP.NET AJAX page. I also had no Intellisense when working with JavaScript which was a p…

One of my favorite utilities is Notepad2. I had a script to replace the original Notepad with Notepad2 on Windows, but as of Windows XP Service Pack 3, that no longer works.

I was writing some WPF testing code today. It was extremely simple code which just programmatically creates a Rectangle and adds it to a canvas. The code this something like this:

Everyone knows the benefits of using enums in code. However, when you use NHibernate to store those enums to a database, all you get are the numeric values those enums represent. I wanted a way to …

Sometime in the past, a friend asked me how to update a control to show status while his code is doing a loop of stuff. Essentially changing the text of a label (or sophisticatedly we can say a tex…

With SQL 2008 shipping late last week it was time to try my hands at this scenario. It worked great but with a few things to remember. Here is the lowdown.

Invoking web methods from client scripts is fun. But before you roll out your cool applications into the production, please don't forget to reconfigure the max JSON string length, represented by ei…

Lately I've been doing some interesting work that I've alluded to elsewhere dealing with the binary communications protocol hosted Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net game service. It's kind of wha…

I was hoping to get this out earlier in the week, but real life, work and that annoying sleep habit I can't seem to kick all got in the way. Randy is a fellow VB MVP and "Carl & Gary's" alumni, but…

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OK, here is a nice chunk of code for a web part that will display the accounts within a Forms Based Authentication database. The code is complete all the bells and whistles including a context menu…

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) is one of widely accepted way to do financial transaction between financial institutions. It has over 8,300 banking organizations…

If you're a 3D kinda guy, which I'm not (well, I'm getting there, but it's a slow journey) then you might be interested in this. Apparently, Caligari is giving away their trueSpace 7.6 product for …

I have an existing C# file, generated a long time ago from XSD definition.

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If you count the number of pages linking to a Wikipedia page, there may be none but it still appears on the first page of the search results. Google seems to rank pages from Wikipedia higher up in …

The latest release of the MVC framework provides the JsonResult for Controller actions. I was surprised that I did not find a weatlh of examples for usage so I figured it shouldn't be too hard to g…

Currently I'm working on a data synchronization tool in which I have finally had the need to use reflection. I'll admit that I'm not an expert when it comes to reflection, but it isn't that hard to…