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…

To promote it's upcoming device Microsoft has released a new theme for Windows XP. ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/20719915@N00/287205479/ "ZuneTheme")…

two basic questions It seems silly and awfully fundamental, but ask any professional software developer this question:

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…

Okay, this one took me a while to figure out, but nonetheless I found it and will share it. In order to turn off or disable the MySite or MyLinks…

Cooperative Application Shutdown with the CLR All good things have to end even your perfectly working managed executable. But do you know in what…

When debugging WebParts not knowing which w3wp process to attatch to has always bugged me. Thankfully ASPalliance has this article to show you how to…

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

Lately I have been having a crisis of faith about MonoRail and have been looking at ASP.Net again. All of the neat controls, and IDE support are sooooo…

This seems to be a very common problem where by your event handler method gets run twice. It is caused by VS.NET inserting 2 wireup of the event handler:

In three tier architecture when BL class calls DAL to retrieve data from the DB we are having two options to get these data one is DataSet/DataTable and…

If you want to completely disable time synchronization in the guest, open the virtual machine's configuration file (.vmx) in a text editor and set the…

While designing DAL layer we normally stuck with one debate, Stored Procedures or Embedded SQL Query? I also faced the same problem. I searched on the…

aspnet\wp.exe and w3wp.exe 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…

Recently, I was trying to delete a windows service. Normally it should not be necessary to manually delete a service. Uninstalling an application should…

A reader Shawn asks : > Hi, My mother just bought a new Camry '07 as well and we both had a question and we cant seem to find an answer anywhere. We were…

Brian, who runs the excellent Blogcast Repository, recently shared with me how he could not use a host computer's wireless NIC with a guest OS when…

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…

There is no sample for this, but if I get enough requests (say five or so) I'll create one and post it. I decided to whip up a quick prototype of…

Here are some pointers on how to use Windows Explorer, in Microsoft Windows XP Professional from the Command Line.