](http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx) Update on July 12, 2007 There is a cool utility released by the IE Team called…

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

In a recent email discussion between a few of the Subtext developers and myself, we talked about the need to have the Visual Studio editor settings (like…

What is the difference between a callback and a postback? A callback is a special postback, so a round-trip always occurs; however, unlike the classic…

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Firstly I must note that this could mess things up pretty bad in your code so keep that in mind before getting all to excited. I am talking about custom…

Many of us have probably dabbled in setting up our own domain and forest for development purposes. For me - a domain is a must - I have my development…

This is used to "use list as a table", i.e. take a list of comma-separated values, and run queries on it. Credits due: look at the second post on…

In the last blog I wrote about Windows Communication Foundation performance comparison. The document available here: A Performance Comparison of Windows…

I’ve been interesting in using SSIS ever since I first heard about it. Since I specialize in doing integration work, primarily with BizTalk, I was curious…

Visual Studio has this annoying habit of expanding the solution folder tree, especially when synchronizing with Visual SourceSafe. Even without that…

For almost two years now, I've been intending to write an article about the mysterious 'side effects' flag used in Microsoft Business Rule Engine…

One of the new language features of the C# 3.0 language release is type inference. Wikipedia has an excellent discussion on type inference, including a…

System.IO.FileLoadException exception occur because a managed assembly is found but cannot be loaded. FileLoadException thrown when user and assembly does…

Here is a cool technique on how to identify which control has triggered the UpdatePanel (when dynamic controls are added during runtime). Here we will use…

MS BRE: Fact Identity in the Microsoft Rules Engine, or how the author chased a non-existent bug I recently had reason to revisit the exact mechanisms…

So I realize it seems like I'm posting a bunch of stuff on Oracle and little on .NET, but it's all related to a large Smart Client application we're…

First of all, I'm using IE 6.0.2900.2180, Haven't test on other browsers. I was using ListSearch control to decorate my drop down lists to provide the…

You might receive the "pipeline component load() method failed on IPersisPropertyBag implementation" error message when you try to drag and drop a custom…

I won a in the March 2007 contest:) One of the funny quirks with this prize is I actually suggested it as a prize a few months back – so not only was it…