You may receive the following error message while browsing an asp.net application "Server Error in '/application name' Application…

ADO.NET offers two central Data Access Components. In this Article we will discuss about their features and when to use what. ADO.NET provides two central…

Hi, You may get a Page cannot be found message when you browse aspx pages in a Windows Server 2003 environment. That is because in Windows 2003, all the…

Hi, XPath is one of the flexible standard for querying an xml document. Let us consider the following CD xml as example:- <?xml version="1.0"…

I have done a heap of work with Flat Files (mostly csv) in Biztalk 2004 I collected a lot of articles from other Blogs on this which were fab I though I…

For one of our applications we needed to serialize Excel 2003 files as XML documents in the database. And then as and when required by the application we…

Well, it finally happens. After using kbAlertz for so long time we can use official RSS feeds for Microsoft Knowledgebase at…

I love using MSDE as my backend engine for my windows application as a developer i have 3 windows forms applications that use MSDE as their local database…

SQL Server & MSDTC Problem in Windows 2003 Yesterday, my colleague experienced a problem when trying to execute SQL statements through a linked server.…

I blogged a couple weeks ago about a SEHException we were getting in our Public Sub Main due to Application.EnableVisualStyles. Basically the solution was…

Shell integration fixes Programs that add to the Windows Explorer context menu will fail to do so on 64-bit Windows. Here are some workarounds:

Stored Procedure Blah Blah Red-Gate just published an interesting editorial written by called "To SP or not to SP in SQL Server".

With the new.NET framework API providing such wonderful functionality, everybody is programming in C# or VB.NET except setup developers. There was quite…

Dave Donaldson is stewing over an article on Contractor vs. Consultant. My take—the original author doesn’t have the reputation to make it as a…

I’d recently searched around for some good-quality JavaScript snippets to determine the cursor position within an HTML TextArea, but haven’t had any luck.…

Today I've encountered an interesting issue with the SharePoint. I wrote a code to call a couple of SharePoint web services. But it did not work.…

Dana Epp posted interesting article about using Image File Execution options in the Windows registry to redirecting a process loading:

A lot of times I post to this blog from my favorite coffee shop, Uncommon Grounds. They have free WiFi access. It's unsecured, but there's no annoying…

Ok, this is pretty crazy stuff. I admit, I didn’t come anywhere near watching the whole thing, but it was pretty cool to see someone took the time to do…

I am buffing up on ASP.NET Server Controls and a central dilemma seems to be whether to inherit from System.Web.UI.Control or…