There may be times when you encounter an issue that only manifests itself in an SSL environment. We just had one of these recently. When this happens, it helps to have a certificate that you can in...

For an ASP.NET project that I’ve been working on for quite a while, we wanted to have a pluggable module type of page architecture. We would have one main page (default.aspx) which would have a pan...

I’m sure that by now everyone has heard that Edit and Continue will be a part of Visual C# 2005. It’s taken me a while to get my thoughts in order regarding this major announcement. First off, let...

I got a note today from a very good friend of mine. Steve and I have known each other for almost 14 years now. Several years back, Steve joined the Army and last November, he got called on by our c...

This has been driving me absolutely up the wall. I’m trying to calculate the fiscal year quarter for a specific date… I can get the calendar quarter using this formula… quarter = (month + 2) / 3 ...

One of the things that I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately is what type of deployment model best fits into an n-tier architecture. There are obviously several ways we can deploy a business...

Command is a very powerful design pattern, whose intent is to encapsulate a request as an object, thereby letting you parameterize clients with different requests, queue or log requests, and suppor...

I think we’ve finally uncovered the root cause of an issue that has been bugging us (no pun intended) for a long time. In a nutshell, the problem was that sometimes, but not always, the session st...

A lot of people (me included) use the configuration API in the .NET framework (System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings) to store configuration settings for their applications. One t...

Three years ago today, the United States of America experienced the single worst act of terrorism against itself. I remember that day as if it were yesterday. I woke up that morning, and just like...