Well I've seen so many 10 reasons to date a geek that I thought I would go with the opposite, having dated a few in the past! Share the knowledge so to speak! Bear in mind that I am also a geek so …

I have a solution with Start ASP.NET project and several VB and C# library projects. When I stopped in Visual Studio 2005 debugger in the library class code, the file is shown with small “lock”. It…

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I often complain, berate, and otherwise just trash technology companies for the never ending line of glitchy products they produce and I buy. It dawned on me today that I don't give enough props wh…

When companies such as BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Siebel Systems, IONA and Sybase comes together it is for an important reason.

Recently needed to work on a friend's 12 year old minivan that for some reason still runs. It's ugly, gets crappy mileage, and has 180,000 miles on it, but still went from point A to point B. That …

If you build services the way I do, you create the XSD and then generate the classes using xsd.exe (instead of the other way around). I like this approach because the service's consumers will need …

The Boston Globe website has an article entitled In computer science, a growing gender gap Women shunning a field once seen as welcoming. As a computer science educator and father of two daughters …

"Uuencode is a set of algorithms for converting files into a series of 7-bit ASCII characters that can be transmitted over the Internet. Originally, uuencode stood for Unix-to-Unix encode, but it h…

The forthcoming release of Visual Studio Foundation Server will include two methodology templates for the next version of MSF (the Microsoft Solution Framework). These are MSF for Agile Software De…

Recently in my project we migrated from VS2003 to VS2005. The application I am working on is a smart client application so it has lot many Win Forms. After migration, when the solution was opened u…

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Ever had the annoying problem of IIS not wanting to start, coughing up the message "Unexpected Error 0x8ffe2740 Occurred."? The reason is that some other application has grabbed port 80. The most c…

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This post has moved and a new better version of the regex is there: http://flanders.co.nz/2009/11/08/a-good-url-regular-expression-repost/

Occasionally when working with an array is may be useful to make a copy of that array. What might not be apparent is that by making a copy of an an array there are implications that can cause unint…

Where I work there's a firewall application required in some parts of the network that doesn't play nicely with XP SP2. So we're still on SP1 while the vendor sorts out the problem. Meanwhile I sti…

Mark Pearce describes how to debug a .Net Windows service from Visual Studio:

If you simply open the web config file and add the following, you will be able to access the test form outside of the localhost:

After having this problem several times and continually forgetting the fix, I figured I'd go ahead and make a post about it. Hopefully, it'll save someone time in the future. Let me know if you hav…