Creative Spam

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths to which Spammers go to get you to read their dumb emails... Some however are just deeply dumb and to be gullible enough to read them would put you into a category of stupidity which would automatically (or should)…

Part IV of the interview with Anders Hejlisberg

Linked to the other 3, here's part 4 , very interesting stuff about Virtual methods in C# This is really interesting stuff (well, I think it is!)...here's a section on 'contracts' and virtual methods...the Java bit is SO true! Bill Venners: What do you mean by…

Catching all errors in an ASP.NET application

Okay, I realise that probably everyone and his / her mother knows this already, but if you want to log ALL errors in an ASP.NET application, the simplest way I've found to do it is in the Global.asax.cs (or whatever codebehind)...simply do this: protected void…

Pretty useful C# Projects

Just discovered this, a collection of links to amazingly interesting C# projects. I love the idea of SourceFTP which essentially gives you 'SourceSafe - like' access to FTP - so you can share stuff stored on an FTP server with a form of versioning (and looking…

Excellent post by Roland Weigelt on Visual Inheritence in WinForms

I Just thought this was a great article for anyone interested in developing WinForms in C# (or indeed and .NET language)

Decent Review of .NET Perfomance versus Java and Rotor / Mono

Found here: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/vogels/Papers/CLI-sc2003-final.pdf for those who hate PDF (I am not a fan..) here's clever little Google's HTML copy...the HTML version loses the pretty graphs though...:-(

New Blog on Graphic Apps Development (and 'other') in Managed Code

Cool new Blog - http://xplsv.com/blogs/devdiary/ by David Notario

Dumb little thing...class which outputs an Excel compatible table from a DataSet

Very simple and based on the one I blogged about previously (well not based on the code but based on the same idea). Anyway, hook this up to a link button, pass in a dataset and it'll provide a downloadable Excel compatible file... public class GetExcel {…

Brain Shutdown...oh and some semi-useful links...

Well, it's 1am, I have at least 8 hours work ahead of me but my Cerebral Cortex has unfortunately decided to cease functioning. I'm also listening to the .NET Rocks showwhere Chris Sells and Rory Blythinterview Carl Franklin...hmm...Carl si currently going on…

Very nice free bits and pieces from Lumisoft

I was hunting for some POP3 stuff in .NET when I happened across this thing, basically a fully-featured POP3 / IMAP/ SMTP / WebMail client written in C# with Source code for free! It's really nice and basically provides all the bits I need for my POP3 mail toy…