So the other day I was adding a “news page” to one of my projects and thought it was a great chance to play with consuming some other RSS feeds that had related information to what I was working on…

One morning when restoring my pc from hibernate - I got this error:

By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don't have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an adm…

The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error 2149648394 (0x8021080A).

I spent a couple of hours today looking at the problem we encountered yesterday with the xpath() function in BizTalk. We were attempting to use an XPath to extract the value of a nested element and…

Recently I got a chance to play around with the Data Protection Application Programming Interface (DPAPI). With .NET 2.0 installed, you can encrypt your Web.config just by using aspnet\regiis.exe o…

I recently bought a bigger 80 gig hard drive for my laptop, and wanted to copy the contents of my existing 30 gig disk with an XP install over to it. I didn't want to go buy any drive copying tools…

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

I have recently installed vs 2005 beta 1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8d702463-674b-4978-9e22-c989130f6553&displaylang=en and just opened up a very small solution and wi…

Updated 12/18/2006 - fixed issue with not listening for Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.SessionEnded event - can't logoff/shutdown issue

There have been complaints about Internet Explorer 7 not respecting the system setting for font smoothing. I have noticed that the 2007 Office System ignores this setting as well. With other words …

Windows PowerShell Scripting Sweepstakes.

Database and web server on the same machine

Somehow this topic seems so common place and yet no where have I been able to find it spelled out clearly and simply. This reminds me of the joke about a helicopter pilot who's lost in the fog near…

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…

Cooperative Application Shutdown with the CLR

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

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).

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…