Code Complete by Steve McConnellis, in my opinion (and many others), the best book ever about the art and discipline of coding. Basically, it's just the bible of how to design and build quality...
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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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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I've posted about this topic a few times, it's really nice to see that someone has finally given a practical, free method of doing this. This implementation uses WS-E to do this, meaning that you add...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Now, I don't mean to be mean here; but on occasion (not mentioning any names for fear of being butchered), there's people who basically demand that I help them do their job.
Let me explain; I hang out...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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There's an odd issue when you try to use Passport on Windows Server 2003 - basically, the default 'Secure Level' of Passport is 10, unfortunately if you don't use SSL this means Passport won't work...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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This looks to be very useful indeed. Found it on the Devhawk blog. Here's some blurb from the page:
Summary: If you are involved in designing and developing applications, you probably need to control...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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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...
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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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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Just noticed this in my User Agents....NET CLR 2.0.31022 - now the version I have from the Alpha is .NET CLR 1.2.30703 - is this new string the PDC build?
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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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With all the hype about the distribution of the Whidbey Alpha at the PDC, I can't help but worry that people will get their hopes up a bit much...just remember it's an Alpha, whilst phenomenally cool...
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...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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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!...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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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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