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If you can find the control panel for DEP, you will find there is not an option to turn it off. This is not a terrible thing unless you are trying to troubleshoot a problem. Then you want to elimin…

This week is my final entry in my Little Wonders series (posts one and two are here and here). These are those little tips and tricks in .NET (and in particular C#) that may not seem like much, but…

We all have those little wonders in our .NET code, those small tips and tricks that make code just that much more concise, maintainable, or performant. Many of you probably already know of some of …

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…

Ok, so I needed to convert .docx files to .pdf files on the fly, but none of the free php libraries that were available let me do it on my server (a webservice was not good enough).

If you visit Asp.net Ajax Forum, you will find hundreds of request on File Upload Control that it does not give Ajax version of the page when it is placed in an UpdatePanel. Certainly, it is not po…

Here’s a list of sources of information for the different elements that comprise the 70-480 exam:

One of the common queries I get across my sessions is that, the File Upload control doesnt work inside an Update panel. All of us would like to implement a Gmail File Upload kind of interface and w…

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The Joel test is intended to gauge the quality of a software development organization. Ten years later, it is in need of an update. Below is a possible “New Joel Test”, updated for 2010.

I’m in the process of evaluating how my team will upgrade our product from .NET 3.5 SP1 to .NET 4. I expected the upgrade to be pretty smooth with very few, if any, upgrade issues. To my delight, t…

Yes, this is possibly the simplest app ever written and was cooked up as a lunch bet between myself (@sundriedcoder) and David Justice (@davidjustice) while waiting on our TFS server to be rebuilt.…

I was looking through my groups’ C# coding standards the other day and there were a couple of legacy items in there that caught my eye. They had been passed down from committee to committee so many…

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…

Moved to http://www.michaelflanakin.com/articles/CompareWebTrackers.aspx

I thought I would post about this because I find myself putting notes about this in comments here and there. One of our team members bought the rabies plush doll from ThinkGeek a little over a mont…

The IODA Architecture to me is fundamental. But as many fundamental notions it might be a bit abstract. That’s why I want to provide an example of how to design and implement software based on it. …

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This is my second lot of Gradients they are few more but that is for some other day, here are about 14 new gradients for you, I need some patience and inspiration to make few so I might come back w…