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The .NET Base Class Library (BCL) has a wide array of collection classes at your disposal which make it easy to manage collections of objects. While it’s…

At the recent Calgary Tech Days event I did a presentation on building composite applications with WPF and Silverlight. One question that I get asked…

I was sad to find out the “codingwithoutcomments” site was taken down. For the sake of a specific post from there, I went to waybackmachine.com and got…

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Here is another early release of the MVVM Light Toolkit V3 (Alpha 2). I decided to release gradually and early as soon as a new part of this new version…

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Sorry for the long blogging hiatus. First it was, of course, the holidays hustle and bustle, then my brother and his wife gave birth to their son, so I’ve…

I had written a pair of posts before about creating a debug-able and self-installing windows service template in C#. This is a template I began creating…

In global.asax: protected void ApplicationBeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { HttpRuntimeSection runTime =…

public static class XDocumentExtensions { /// <summary> /// Saves the contents of an XDocument object into a XmlDocument object /// </summary> /// <param…

By default, when a stand-alone instance of Microsoft SQL Server exists in a cluster environment, the SQL Server-based instance is set to start…

public class Person { private string name; public Person(string name) { this.Name = name; } public string Name { get { return this.name; } set { this.name…

I got this error when I try to create an eventlog source and when I try to write to the new event log (after resorting to manually creating the event log…

Exception handling seems to be a common problem for .NET developers, particularly younger developers. We pretty much all know that you should wrap…

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…

\[Updated\] UI development gets all the attention, but application integration is where the real work is done. When it comes to application integration in…

The MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel ) Design Pattern requires that you create a facade layer between the Model and the View called the ViewModel.

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A little over 2 years ago, I saw my peer’s code that uses the KeyedCollection<TKey, TItem> class. I never seen it before, and it is actually a pretty nice…

Now that Visual Studio 2010 has been released, there are a lot of extensions being written. In fact, as of today (May 1, 2010 at 15:40 UTC) there are 809…

Today´s mainstream object orientation is not what Alan Kay, the inventor of the term, intended: > I invented the term object-oriented, and I can tell you…

There is much simpler and graceful way to shut down a site while doing upgrade to avoid the problem of people accessing site in the middle of a content…

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…

Once again we consider some of the lesser known classes and keywords of C#. In the next few weeks, we will discuss the concurrent collections and how they…

If you are having problems viewing CHM files (like the new WCF documentation CHM files), you might be seeing a blank IE screen when you click on any of…

I wanted to use Ninject 1.0 but I discovered that it didn’t support named binding, and didn’t know how to resolve multiple bindings to an array.

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My somewhat colorful non-spoileriffic review of Aquaman (aka Wet Thor)! TL;DR: It’s fucking wonderful. See it.

As the technical editor for the UK MSDN Flash I get surprisingly free rein to decide what content to place in it. I suspect one day they will notice – but…

Visual Studio has ability to delete empty lines in replace operation using regular expressions. 1.Click Ctrl-H (quick replace) 2\. Tick “Use Regular…

In C#, Visual Basic.NET, C++/CLI, J# – the list goes on – we’re freed from having to worry about our memory management. Objects take care of themselves,…

Yes, all unhandled exceptions will kill the IIS worker process, but in WCF you can tag an IErrorHandler onto your service behavior and all unhandled…

An argument for Interface based design and programming For software to survive in the ever-changing jungle of the production environment, it must have…

The problem I am moving my server and main development system out of a home office into rented office space. As I’m only going to be in the office two of…

I had someone ask today how to format a date in xslt 1.0. I thought it was worth posting the answer I gave. I hope you find it useful. It’s amazing how…

Introduction The compensation model in BizTalk Server 2006 provides a versatile mechanism for addressing an extensive range of business process scenarios.…

Here is the complete code to Export GridView to Excel: using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using…

Click here for a Video version of this Article Most of us who develop Web Applications would have used an IFRAME during some stage of our lives. IFRAME’s…

<table><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2009/11/22/136473.aspx">Automatic Null Checks</a><a…

! It’s been quite some time since I’ve cracked open Visual Studio to create an extension freebie for all my fellow engineers. If you’re keeping up with…

Delegates in .NET are a very handy addition to the language. With the introduction of LINQ they did become mainstream and everyone is using them or is at…

The other day, I posted about a feature request submitted to Microsoft Connect. Well, it ended up getting 21 votes before Microsoft closed it as “Closed…

I received comments to my blog (WCF vs. Remoting (with DataSet)- performance comparison) with some adjustments I could make to improve performance of the…

I seem to be spending a lot of time lately trying to convince clients that a single Team Project for the entire Enterprise is the way to go. To most…

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You may get this error when trying to browse an asp.net application. The debug information shows that “This error can be caused by a virtual directory not…

The Android HelloListView tutorial shows how to bind a ListView to an array of string objects, but you’ll probably outgrow that pretty quickly. This post…

Introduction SignalR is a pretty new and very exciting feature in ASP.NET. It offers a simple and clean API that allows you to create real time web…

So I was reading Peter Kellner’s blog entry on Resharper 5.0 and its LINQ refactoring and thought that was very cool. But that raised a point I had always…

C# is a wonderful language for modern programming. While everything in C# has a reason and a place, occasionally there are things that can be confusing…

The following is the complete anthology of Little Wonders, Pitfalls, and Presentations. Enjoy! A new little puzzler will be coming out this week.

Back when I was primarily a C++ developer, I loved C++ templates. The power of writing very reusable generic classes brought the art of programming to a…

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…

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…

Here’s a short tutorial on how to use log4net in C# 1\. Get log4net from the apache website. 2\. Open your project with visual studio.

When trying to add a diagram to an SQL Server 2005 db I got the following error: Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this…

I like Code Metrics. They give a certain “objective” evaluation of a piece of code. You can use it for yourself just to make it pinpoint potential trouble…

Entity Framework 4.0 Resources – documentation links, best blog posts and more \[Initual release 22nd Sept 2009\] \[Updated 23rd Sept, with links from…

I was thinking about the level of programming abilities lately, as we are starting to interview for an open position. I thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if…

Finding handle leaks in all processes at once for all handle types without a debugger is no longer impossible. Since Windows 8.1 (0?) each handle creation…

Many times we would like to export our page as an Excel sheet, Word doc or PDF file. This can be simply achieved by changing the ContentType of the…

One of the most common questions I get about FTP has to do with error 425, “Can’t open data connection.” This is indeed a protocol level error that is…

The DLR was introduced in .NET 4 to allow dynamic languages, like Python or Ruby, to run on the CLR. The DLR is also used by C# 4, released at the same…

! 1\. Introduction This posting is a continuation from the previous post on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). If you are a new to MEF you will need…

All of us have probably written code like this: Foo f = new Foo(); And what could be simpler? As long as the logic in the constructor is simple (or better…

Two weeks ago I had had a talk with Wang Tao, a C# MVP in China who is currently running his startup company and product named worktile. He asked me to…

For the last newsletter I wrote a brief article describing what design patterns were and the educational benefits that they can have as they are…

For Issue 900, I wanted to do another “best of” and it’s a little tricky. I can’t do best of from 800 to 900 because it will be heavily weighted to the…

CLR Profiler is a free and incredibly useful tool offered by Microsoft. I’m fairly certain its primary use (at least from Microsoft’s perspective) is to…

Here is something interesting that came up a newsgroup thread a little while ago, that I though merited some more explanation.

Back in February we did our first special edition of the UK MSDN Flash focused on Free Software for developers (Which was our most popular edition for…

You might receive the error ‘Sys’ is undefined when running ASP.NET AJAX Web pages or trying to AJAX enable your exisitng Web Applicaitons.

Team Foundation Server Application Programming Interface, Team Foundation Server SDK, Team Foundation Server Software Development Kit

I’m currently working on broadening the content in the Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide. One of the features I have been looking at over the past…

This is post is meant to be a more straightforward overview of my previous post. The previous post got a little long and turned into a walthrough. If you…

Visual Studio status bar is one of the most important status reporting indicator for any developer working with Visual Studio. In this blog post we will…

Download from VS Gallery In my work I meet many developers, tester and project managers, all using Visual Studio. When I ask them if they have updated it…

The portable libraries are the response to the growing profile fragmentation in.NET frameworks. With help of portable libraries you can share code between…

This is a rant. I don’t have the answer to the question. So, the latest project I’m working on is a kiosk app in WPF that has to interact with hardware.…

All of us have experienced it but very few of us have gone into the details to really find the reasons for it. First of all why should I care? After the…

This article will cover basic implementations of the Splitter and Aggregator patterns using the Windows Azure Service Bus. The content will be included in…

Windows PowerShell (formerly known as “Monad”) is a Microsoft’s answer to the power and flexibility of the Unix command shells. It should finally complete…

Some of you may have come across this helpful blog post recently, discussing when the garbage collector (a/k/a the GC) runs on Windows Phone 7 devices.…

Here’s a trick: When you work a lot with XAML, you’ll be confronted to the dreaded XamlParseException sooner or later. This exception is thrown whenever…

Integrated authentication allows for SQL Server to leverage Windows NT authentication to validate SQL Server logon accounts. This allows the user to…

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…

This was one of the most uncomfortable articles that I read this year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/11/17/stephen-hawkin…

Not sure when this took effect, but a simple public facing web application we wrote using jQuery.ajax for doing our form posts nicely started not working…

This is part 1 of what I intend to be something of a recurring theme: how to avoid the use of dynamic controls in ASP.NET.

My First experiment with Asp.net ListView control was awesome. I downloaded few templates from and able to apply it only in few minutes. Checkout the…

Well, I’m posting this because during the last week three different people in three completly different environments asked me why is Bluetooth called…

\The concepts in this article apply to .NET 1.1 and 3.0 as well, but my links below are for 2.0. From what I found recently, there are lots of sites that…

I’ve been thinking a lot about extension methods lately, and I must admit I both love them and hate them. They are a lot like sugar, they taste so nice…

Once again we delve into the world of C# Fundamentals. Those hints and gotchas that tend to bite folks newer to the language. Today I take another look…

C# is a wonderful language for modern programming. While everything in C# has a reason and a place, occasionally, there are things that can be confusing…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This example shows how to create a very simple registration form in ASP.NET WebForms. ! STEP1: Creating the Database.

Martin Hinshelwood wrote an excellent post recently (https://geekswithblogs.net/hinshelm/archive/2010/09/16/team-foundation-server-2010-event-handling-with…

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,…

Many a times we find a need to download a file on doing a AJAX POST request. Normally we would just use the Response.Write to write the fileStream to the…

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…

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

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Logging is essential to the support of any piece of code. In this post I will cover two approaches to logging in Azure Functions: TraceWriter and log4net.

SQL Server has a built-in data type that automatically marks changes to rows. This data type is “rowversion”. Formerly this data type was named…

Most people – even the overwhelming majority of programmers – would say that the main activity of a software developer is “writing source code“. But this…

For the past year or so, Martin Fowler has included the pattern Model-View-Presenter, or MVP, in his upcoming addendum to Patterns of Enterprise…

In the previous post I had described the steps to secure your Windows Azure tokens and get the necessary Visual Studio templates as well as making your…

It has been a few months since I installed Windows Live OneCare and results are mixed. For the most part it runs quietly in the background providing, at…

The Toilet Example (c) Copyright 2005, Niclas Winquist 😉 Mutex: Is a key to a toilet. One person can have the key – occupy the toilet – at the time. When…

Following the , there has been a whole host of announcements about the new features we’ll be seeing in.NET 4.0. I’d like to take a moment to look at some…

When you think of augmented reality, one of the key elements to consider is object recognition technology, also known as object detection. This term…

| | | I wanted to create a series of blog post that gets right to the point and is aimed specifically at Silverlight Developers. The most important things…

I wanted to use String.Format with parameters that can be null. Firstly i decided to put some conditional code like if(arg1!=null) but then desided to…

Here are the links from my May 12, 2008 presentation at the St. Louis C# User Group: <table><tbody><tr><td>1.</td><td>VS 2008 Product…

Over the past few months I’ve had 2 customers that have run into an scenario where the SharePoint 2013 web analytics usage reports have no data (all…

Problem Redirect the user to login page after a period of inactivity or when the session expires. Investigation A quick search on Google will find many…

It’s been over 2 months since I last updated my blog. I have been busy; we got a new VP of IT and he made some changes and there are a bunch of stuff…

A plea out to all those who are using ASP.NET AJAX with sites on IIS7, either under Vista or Longhorn Server: I’ve been battling a strange issue with…

I finally decided to nose dive into the blogging arena. I couldn’t find a better time to start writing my first post, the Christmas Holidays. During the…

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 has been released yesterday, you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&Famil…

Today I spent some time reviewing my Formal Logic course for my up coming exam. I came across a section that I have never really explored in any proper…

While SQL Server security features continue to improve, hashing in SQL Server using native functions is simple, but not necessarily up to speed on the…

You may see this error – more than once – when working with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 deployment. This animal / error generally…

I was thinking a little ‘tongue in cheek’ when I came up with the title for this one. To add to the growing number of “Seven Habits” resources, I’ll add…

UPDATE (12/17/2007): My blog has moved. This post is now located at: I do not know how I missed this, but just today I found out that you can expose an…

Media Type Formatters in the WCF Web API provide a way for the consumer of your service to not only specify the format they want for their response, but…

I decided to write this example because this has been asked many times at the forums. In my previous article I have shown on how to Upload and Save the…

You would know from your ops-teams that ‘One Click Installers’ make them happy & smile. Microsoft pulled support for Installer projects from Visual Studio…

I’ve been involved in a lengthy discussion recently at work involving the IDisposable implementation in WCF clients.

Recently one of our customers had an issue when migrating from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0. The issue came up particularly in the deployment server where…

IntroductionI’ve been asked a few times how the performance of WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) Rules compares with that of the Microsoft Business Rules…

Some applications are just bent on seeing what appears to be the pristine original Default Web Site that is created when IIS is first installed. For…

One morning when restoring my pc from hibernate – I got this error: svchost.exe — application error the instruction at “0x745f2780” reference memory at…

\[Original Post Date: 9th October 2005\]I just finished implementing WIVisualizer, a WindowsIdentity debugger visualizer for Visual Studio 2005. It…

One of the most common questions I’ve seen regarding the TabControl in Windows Forms was how to add a close button to each tab (similar to seen on tabs in…

This is a series of articles that cover the concept of writing a simple 2D game in C# using the Managed DirectX libraries provided in the DirectX 9.0 SDK.

In May 2004, Microsoft published a whitepaper entitled ‘Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Performance Characteristics’…