I do have a tendency to get involved in pointless arguments in the ASP.NET Forums...a good example is this one, arguing about the performance of 'foreach' versus 'for'...any opinions from here - the...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Very useful...http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/
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Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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ASP.NET has a problem with file downloads...basically if you use Response.WriteFile(fileName),
the entire file is buffered in memory before its' downloaded - this is NOT good for
scalability. To get...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Hmm...got a new swish 3G mobile phone, the NEC
e606, got a pretty good deal - works out cheaper than my old phone with a GPRS
package - but with 10 times tha bandwidth and no restrictions on VPN ports...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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This discussion on Slashdothas
finally made my mind up. I have been a reader of Slashdot for a number of years,
I believe I started reading it in the first month it existed. I'm even one of...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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More changes, you've probably noticed the feed taken from http://weblogs.asp.net on the right hand column...this is done using a slightly modified version of the RSS Feed control I posted earlier - no...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Noticed a post on Robert McLaws' weblog about Hard-links...go and read the post it'll all make sense... Now, I've recently been working on a project where a requirement existed for an 'uploads'...
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Nice article on CodeProject on generating fractal snow...and a nice screensaver (which now works on multiple monitors) by Thomas Petricek who has also written a couple of other pretty nice articles...
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One of the most common problems with using CDOSYS (which is the underlying class used by System.Web.Mail) is the lack of authentication for sending mail via SMTP, Darren Jefford posted a method to do...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I left a comment on Rob Chartier's blog about adding confirmation prompts to buttons, now I do use Andy Smith's Confirmed Buttons controls where I can, but if I need to add a simple confirmation to a...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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A comment from Rob Howard (I'll dig out a link later) go me thinking about problems with most blogs. Now, in my every day job I develop community applications, forums and all sorts of similar 'social...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I'm getting increasingly involved in the world of Asynchrony and have been doing a bit of digging about into some of the pitfalls of multi-threading.
I came across an interesting one today involving...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I posted a little while ago about an odd 'Memory Leak' I was having...well, after several days of trawling (and annoying Data Wantawho's excellent email component I was mistakenly blaming - sorry!), I...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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OK, can anyone explain why I can't check explicitly if I can lock a file before reading from it (i.e., check that no-one else is locking the file before trying to read from it). I'm using the...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Now it's after the 26th, the NDA is lifted on the Whidbey alpha...which is nice :-) Anyway, thought I'd provide a look at the new ASP.NET toolbar for Whidbey here.
There's lots of really nice new...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Been reading my recent posts and blog comments...umm...sorry, in a bit of a moaning mood of late. I really have to get down to it and contribute a bit more - I have some changes to make to this site...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Today the Design Preview of new versions of ASP.NET happens in London...but I have a prior engagement and can't go...wahhhh!!!
If anyone from the ASP.NET design team is reading this - I love travel -...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Though I'd provide an update of stuff I'm working on for this site; which will be finished eventually finding time to do it is pretty tricky. Anyway, I've been delving deep into the core of .TEXT and...
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The saga continues, I can recieve mail OK, but I can't send it from my server; now, it works from the smtp local server on my main machine so I don't think it's a Firewall thing - I'm very confused!...
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This one drove me nuts for a while, I have an smtp server running on my server, but occasionally, the SMTP administration snapin would disappear for no particular reason. This is needless to say VERY...
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