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A few weeks ago, an article appeared on O'Rielly that showed an example chat application that utilized Amazon's Simple Queue service to store chat messages. IMO, using a middle-ware Queuing system over a Web Service is a great idea (which was...
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Say what you will about User Controls (ASCX controls) versus WebControls (classes inheriting from System.Web.UI.WebControl) but the simple fact is that often a User Control is the easiest and best way to design a piece of re-usable functionality in ASP...
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The other day, I had to copy a file from a Windows Service running on our Web server which is outside of our firewall, and not a trusted member of our domain , to a folder on a share inside of the firewall . Should be easy, right? Well, it turns out it...
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Earlier this week, I went looking for a way to filter Entity Collection classes. I ran across a good article, Sorting the Unsortable Collection by Rocky Lhotka that details a VB wrapper class allowing sorting of strongly-typed collections. I liked the...
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During the past couple of weeks, I've been doing some of my first real dotnet WinForms App development. It's been a fun journey, I'm still learning stuff like crazy. One of the things I wanted to do was enable the app to be self-updating using the ApplicationUpdater...
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Okay, running .BAT files from ASP.NET using the System.Diagnostics.Process object and static methods this should be easy, right? Well, this might work for you, but it certainly won't work on my machines. And after doing lots of reasearh on the issue,...
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A couple of weeks ago, I complained about the KB code here KB316337. What this code is supposed to do is transform a DataSet into ADO Recordset XML format. I ended up porting the VB code to C# and also rewriting some of the code along the way... It's...
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Looking for a BusyBox control? Use this one here.
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In an effort to make our gate camera images visible on a ridiculously small cellphone screen, I spent the past couple of days learning about the process of image Quantization . GDI+ will allow you to take a full-color 32 bpp image and save it as a .gif...
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I spent last couple of days looking into modifying the default templates that come with VS.NET. It ended up being a strange journey into the guts of the VS.NET template architecture. It's kind of messy down there, which was surprising , but I ended up...
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