Stuff I've never done...in .NET at least

Thought I'd make a quick list of stuff I want to do but never have in .NET - yet.... Reflection - haven't yet had ANY call to use reflection for anything, lucky me! Direct X 9.0 - I probably am going to play with this pretty soon, especially with this just…

Very cool tip, get rid of the hideous (and IMHO pretty useless) search thing in windows XP

Look here...the evil pooch will go away!

Oooh free stuff...I'm there...

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Brilliant CSS Tutorial - so somple even a simple coder like me can understand it!

It's always a thing I've been fairly weak at - partly because in the past it was of limited use due to stupid browser incompatabilities - but now there's really no excuse for not being a CSS devotee, particularly when trying to design lightweight yet…

Oh, in case you're wondering...I will be posting more regularly pretty soon!

I'm planning (fingers crossed) to update this whole thing with the latest version (heavily modified by me) of .TEXT this weekend coming - I currently have a new snazzy skin (for the blog, my skin currently sports a nasty burn) and some other 'interesting'…

Update of the previous post...had to tag strip for syndication...

I'm trying to simulate the .NET 2.0 Database Cache Dependency stuff (well kind of, WAY simpler obviously). What I'm doing is running a little timer class as a static property of my global.asax.cs file...like so: public static TimerClass timr = new…

One more...PINVOKE addin for Visual Studio

Wish I had this the other week when I was doing my HTML image grabber thing...took me ages to find this stuff. Anyway, nice tool found here which lets you easily use some of the cool Win32 PIIVOKE stuff a bit less painfully...

Getting back to it...

Sorry, had a bit of an unplanned hiatus over the past couple of weeks...a cold and a week away from computers being the main culprits. So, well, I'm back now feeling mentally reinvigorated and ready to play with some new stuff. Had an exellent break - one of…

And now a poem...to mark Poem in your pocket day...

First post in a while...illness and other stuff I'll blog about later...but to mark Poem in your pocket day...a bit early, here's one from one of my homies - Robert Burns (born just down the read from where I was - we all speak like this you know!). To A Louse…

For Future Reference: Creating Templated Emails...very nice method using UserControls

I've done this in a few ways in the past, ranging from custom XML templates with XSLT / Regular Expressions to screen scraping - this is just the simplest and cleanest way I've seen to do this (also a very nice example of using the RenderControl method...).…