One of our developers had a problem where his VS.NET 2003 installed on Windows Server 2003 was greying out all of the options under the Source Control menu - took a little while to find the solution but eventually discovered it here - so if you have this…
This is a really handy little add-in which lets you examine the content of XML bearing variables during debug sessions. I just discovered Ben Lovell's blog , lots of useful stuff over there...
I posted earlier about the MSDN Magazine CHM downloadable, just found a little CHM reader (in .NET yay!) on Codeproject, mobile MSDN magazine! (OK, so technically, always been mobile!)
Basically, Joel covers a whole bunch of ground in this article, including issues like why it's not in Microsoft's best interest to support DHTML and advance Internet Explorer (which actually explains a WHOLE LOT!), and the basic problem around Windows -…
Now there's a post title I never expected to write, anyway, got this in my mail from B3TA - theres lots of wierd stuff on that site, but this movie just rocks! Basically it's squirrels (or tree-rats as the movie calls them)..umm...busking. You can downloads…
Well, the last episode of Friends is about to start...and just been doing my blog trawl before I shut my laptop for the weekend - for which I just bought a new power adaptor; if you need a laptop adaptor, live in the UK and want the best deal, check out…
Really just a wrapper around the really nice native C library, but could be handy when you need to compress stuff in the quickest way possible...here's the SourceForge homepage
Just noticed this link in a post on Kent Sharkeys blog. The article by Scott Mitchellcovers various methods of making ASP.NET 1.1 based sites conform to WAI accessibility guidelines (or US Section 508 if you prefer :-)). It is still stunningly annoying (and…
Should mention I suppose the I lied in yesterdays post on threading using .NET...mea cupla :-). In that post I mentioned using delegates for multi-threading and said that you always had to use EndInvoke to avoid a memory leak...well not quite, what i actually…
This is a common puzzler for people new to .NET (who aren't in the US!), just how do you parse a DateTime to be correct for your culture? Answer, pretty easily...the DateTime.Parse has an overload which accepts an IFormatProvider, so this will let you parse a…