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Active Directory Tip #3 - Get DirectoryEntry Property with range fetch

Wed, 05 May 2010 10:26:30 GMT

Tip #2 already dealt with one of the problems while using multi-value properties.But there is another pitfall that got me once - and usually only happens in production environments and is very hard to debug. I am talking about property range fetch a mechanism introduced to allow the active directory server to use certain optimizations. Unfortunatelly the optimization means a harder to understand API and more work for us programmer.

.NET continues to DoS attack me, seriously!

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:45:00 GMT

Yeah, it does! And I don't necessarily mean denial of service - that would mean that I couldn't get any programming done. Nope, far from it - but it sure is denial of sleep attacking me. Come one, I am struggling to keep up with all the new runtimes, features, frameworks and best practices coming out of Redmond. It's awesome and actually fun; no doubt about it - but sometimes it is excruciating as well. And today I am going to talk about the excruciating experience of seeing another reinvented wheel hobble out of Microsoft.

Refactoring Day 3 : Pull Up Method

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:05:30 GMT

A post a day for 31 days on refactoring.

Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Part 2: How (Theory)

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:00:03 GMT

Great high level description of merging in changes from different features as they are being developed.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 is released!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 2 first preview is released to public now and you can download it from Microsoft download site. Here is short overview of technical requirements and main new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1.

My ideal IDE

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:00 GMT

What some of us would like Visual Studio to do for us

A first look at Duck Typing in C# 4.0

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:31:03 GMT

A complete end-to-end C# 4.0 example with source code using IDynamicObject and MetaObject in order to generate a fully dynamic type using a Dictionary as storage. It also shows how a dynamic type can enter the static typed world and act just like a typed class - dynamically. :)

WpfSimpleChart - A WPF Chart Control library - released

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:49:29 GMT

A simple to use WPF Chart library. With demo application.

Seperations of concerns

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:31:03 GMT

This is the 5th and last part in a series on hoow to make a bad application better. Wonderfully explained. There is a lot to learn from this.

Getting started with custom SharePoint Event Receivers

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:16:03 GMT

In this post I describe how to create a custom SharePoint Event Receiver using the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services.

Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

Mon, 26 May 2008 14:01:02 GMT

How to look at the baked in rules or how to write your own set of rules for the newly released Microsoft Source Analysis for C#.

Build visual studio documentation from code comments using Sandcastle

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:31:02 GMT

This article describes how to build help files using Sandcastle and code comment tags and how to integrate the help files into the visual studio help system.

Howto savely move a file using C#

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

If possible this version uses the special File.Replace on NTFS and gracially falls back on Delete+Move on any other filesystem. Nothing else to comment about here. I am just amazed that this kind of save moving is not supported by the framework itself. Instead the framework's move routine throws an exception if there is an file existing at the target location. Weird. ;)

Windows Vista Controls for .NET version 1.3 released

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

The Windows Vista Controls for .NET 2.0 library is an open-source project which was started in January 2007 and has been released on CodePlex, undergoing several updates and changes. Its latest 1.3 release includes several native Vista common controls which can be included in any WinForms application and includes other features like DWM thumbnails, DWM glass and Task Dialogs.

Creating a Simple Site Wide User Notification Pattern

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:46:02 GMT

When creating websites, it seems that one problem I always run into is how to gracefully notify the user of errors or display messages to them. In most of my sites I use master pages, so I thought it would be pretty sweet to integrate a messaging pattern into my master pages.

Immediate Window - A forgotten tool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:16:02 GMT

A little bit about the Immediate Window tool available in Visual Studio.

MSDN Reader!! A Must Have Application!

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

he MSDN Reader allows you to browse through MSDN Magazine articles like never before. Read through articles, view figures and code snippets in an intuitive and easy-to-use experience.

Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:46:02 GMT

I just had to convert a Visual Studio 2008 Solution and Project to Visual Studio 2005. It is actually pretty straight forward. At least in my case...

Creating a transparent Panel in .NET

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Today I wanted to create a transparent Panel-Control in .NET in order to superimpose it on the WebBrowser Control in order to record click events. The goal was to code a simple macro recorder for websites. Unfortunatelly the .NET framework does not allow (in an easy way) to make a control fully transparent. So it was back to the good ol' winuser.h and the extended window styles. Namely 0x00000020L or as it is better known WS_EX_TRANSPARENT.

Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with ISAPI Rewrite

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:20:30 GMT

To redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with ISAPI Rewrite you can use the following rewriting rules in your httpd.ini file ...

Howto: Detect if IIS7 is installed on a Vista Machine

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:40:13 GMT

Howto: Detect if IIS7 is installed on a Vista Machine

Create Windows Live Writer plugin using Visual Basic.NET

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:38:49 GMT

Create Windows Live Writer plugin using Visual Basic.NET

Writing a simple Windows Process Logger in C#

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:46:13 GMT

Here is a quick C# script to log the start and end times of running processes on your machine. The idea is query the currently running processes every x number of seconds utilizing the Process.GetProcesses function in .NET, while maintaining a book for currently running processes each cycle, then if a new process appears (or disappears), you log the result as start and end respectively.

How to find a string between two begin and end strings in C#

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:01:36 GMT

One common requirements especially when doing screen scrapping is to find strings contained between html tags, or other strings. Regular Expressions provide a powerfull way to do so, but are initially intimidating for a beginner programmer.

Click on a tab to close a document window

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:31:02 GMT

How to close a document window in Visual Studio with one click of the mouse.