I realized yesterday that it has been several weeks since I posted anything of real substance to this weblog. I dont want to make excuses, but I figured that I better write something to let people ...

I’m currently working on a project that’s goal will be to provide direction to our team as to what technology we want to use to create a service layer for our applications. I’ve picked up Christia...

I was working on integrating a COM+ application (service) into my .NET application. The goal was to have this service layer on a different machine and the calling application would use the service ...

Stumbled across this chunk of code while tracking down a bug… Although this had nothing to do with the bug, it did leave my scratching my head saying WTF… Variable names have been changed to protec...

Ever added plugin capabilities to your application? Are you tired of writing the same discovery and loading code over and over? I am too, and came up with this fun little class: class PluginLoader...

For a little project Im working on, I wanted to simulate a HyperLink control on a webform. I came up with the following control, which you may find useful. Of course, there can be additional prope...

Earlier tonight, I was trying to setup a new file extension for a web application using IIS. The idea was simple enough. Default Website Home Directory Configuration Application C...

I spent a little time this afternoon delving into Whidbey Beta 2, after finally surfacing from other priorities at work. One of the things that I’ve been really interested in is the Provider patte...

During a recent upgrade to an application Ive been working, all but one of the stored procedures was removed. What?!?! Indeed, data access can happen without stored procedures, and as referenced i...

This came through an an email thread this afternoon and I thought Id share this with the rest of you. Under Virtual Server, there are a lot of annoying beeps that occur as some sounds appear to be...