I could have used the title “Ditching Client Service Proxy” or “Avoiding Add Service Reference”, but that’s not what the meat of the post is about. However, that is essentially the goal of this post. The client service proxy generated when you use “Add Service Reference…” to reference your web servi...

Developing and debugging windows services or daemon processes in .Net can be a really painful and tedious process. Daemoniq takes a stab at this problem by providing another level of a abstraction on top of System.ServiceProcess?. This allows developers to concentrate on writing windows services in ...

This post clearly explains how to create a setup project in visual studio

Explains detailed steps to create a windows service using visual studio

I have an iPhone and I got a lot of songs on it. I don’t particularly love to sing but I got a few bands that have tendencies to say their lyrics in a… obscure way. Since I’m really curious, I’m always on Google searching for the lyrics. I wanted to save some time and avoid unnecessary browsing. The...

Beginners introduction to mocking using the recently released Moq 3 framework.

Recently, in KiGG/DotNetShoutout we have integrated Twitter, nothing complex, very basic thing like when a story is submitted or appears in the front page it will broadcast in Twitter and like our feed it will post the short url of the original story (Cant resist to do some shameless marketing f...

Implementing UnitOfWork Pattern In Linq To SQL Application In my previous post, I have shown how to create Linq to Sql Repository which will have the maximum code coverage, In this post, I will show a simple UnitOfWork class which will flash the changes back to your database. I will be again use...

In this post, I will show you how can you extend Microsoft Patterns & Practices Unity Application Block and use it in ASP.NET MVC in conjunction with Patterns & Practices Common Service Locator. Extending Unity Unity is a dependency injection container from MS Patterns & Practices team. ...

The anti-spam service Waegis, which started with a subscription model, just went free, even for the enterprise license. Why sticking with Akismet any longer?

Debugging a Windows Service Application is a very unpleasant task because such application doesn’t run from within Visual Studio .NET. A Windows Service Application runs in the Services Control Manager context. This article is about how to debug a Windows Service application as a regulat Windows For...

The article details three different approaches to creating a .NET service. Most common is the timer-based service, which simply relies on a timer to invoke the background thread periodically. I also cover two other alternatives: using a single worker thread and using multiple worker threads. While t...

Tired of Spam? Spammers are disturbing our dear web! How do you feel about them? Do you have a site, blog, forum or Wiki? Have you been affected by lots of spam content on your site? How much of time do you spend to remove them everyday? How can they affect the look and feel of your site? How can t...

An open-source project that will detect your current public IP and notify the DNS-O-Matic service which in turn will notify as many as 29 other services of your dynamic IP change (including DynDNS, OpenDNS, NO-IP.com, etc).