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Getting The List Of All Pages In The Application

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:46:02 GMT

A short snippet of code that demonstrates how you can get and display a list of all pages in the ASP.NET web application. Such a list can be used during developement to ease navigation.

What Is DBNull Needed For Anyway?

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:31:01 GMT

My point of view on the ever popular quesstion: What is DBNull needed for?

Semantical Difference Between "as" Operator And Casting

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:31:01 GMT

Bried article on how using "as" operator changes the semantical meaing of the code and what my be the outcome.

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio - Remember Password

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:31:02 GMT

Big company, lots of money, lots of time, one small window and so many bugs.

Visual Studio SP1 - Windows 2003 Adventure

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:01:01 GMT

Ironic article describing my adventure with SP1 for Visual Studio 2005. How I have searched for and problems I had during installation.

Wonders of Immediate Window

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:31:02 GMT

An article showing how far you can go with the Immediate Window

Common Pattern For Working With IComparer

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:01:02 GMT

A common pattern that I use when working with IComparer interface that makes the code more usable and intelisense friendly.

IComparable vs IComparer - what and when

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:01:02 GMT

An article shortly describes what is the purpose of both interfaces and provides guidelines as to when to use which.

Exception In Event Handler

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:31:01 GMT

What happens if an event handler throws an exception and what should be done about it. An overview of possible solutions.

Remember To Unhook The Event Handlers

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:31:02 GMT

Article that describes how events are implemented and what happens if you forget to unhook the handlers.

Event Properties - Memory Efficient Events

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:01:01 GMT

Description of how to define events in a more memory efficient way.

IE7 Pain

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:31:02 GMT

The story of me and IE7 and how it messes up with my life and my computer

XmlIncludeAttribute on a Method

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:31:01 GMT

How to handle inheritance in web services using XmlIncludeAttribute.

Friend Assembly

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:31:02 GMT

How to make your internal types visible to other assemblies.

Measuring Time More Accurately

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:01:02 GMT

How to accurately measure how much time has passed while performing some operation? Use the Stopwatch class. Here is how.

Google Code Search - Fun With Comments

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:31:02 GMT

There is more to Google Code Search then just a code! Try searching for comments!

Google Code Search

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:31:02 GMT

Is it the end of the problem with lack of examples in the documentation?

Moving Data Between Tiers

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:31:01 GMT

An article and sample code demonstrating how you can move data between tiers in a strongly typed way.

My Blogger A-List - a good start feed for .net Developers

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:31:02 GMT

Everyone reads blogs, right? So why not read the good ones?

Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:01:02 GMT

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 has many features to help you design and build Web sites that are compliant with XHTML and accessibility standards. This article looks at how and why you should be building these standards-compliant sites.

Visual SourceSafe Unexpected Error

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:31:01 GMT

The common problem when working with Visual SourceSafe that prevents you from using it and a possible solution.

Common Pattern For Working With DataReader

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:01:01 GMT

A description of a common pattern for working with DataReader object which as described here: http://vaultofthoughts.net/WhatYouShouldDisposeWhenUsingADONET.aspx Is IDisposable and should be disposed!

What You Should Dispose When Using ADO.NET

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:31:02 GMT

An article pointing out what should be disposed while working with ADO.NET but often is not!

NUnit Xml Documentation

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:31:02 GMT

NUnit comes without Xml Documentation by default. Here I provide the missing files in a meanwhile before NUnit team includes them in the release sometime in the future.

Lazy Load Property Snippet

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:31:01 GMT

Description of what Lazy Load property is and a code snippet that provides an implementation for it.