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Live Smooth Streaming: Retrieving the configuration settings via code

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:45:00 GMT

In my previous post, I explained how the Microsoft.Web.Administration API of IIS7 helped us to manage the Live Smooth Streaming Publishing Points programmatically. In this post I'm going to show you how, using the same API, you can retrieve the Live Smooth Streaming configuration settings.

The Technology Post for June 30th, 2009

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:36:47 GMT

I've changed the Technology Post format again a bit in preparation for the new website. Let me know what you think.

Request UAC Elevation for .net Application (Managed Code)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:40:09 GMT

This Article explains, how to request the operating system for UAC elevation for an application that requires administrator priviilege in windows VISTA, or windows 7

ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 1: Adding jQuery Intellisense to VS 2008

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:22:48 GMT

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am starting a series of detailed blog entries that focus on each topic from a recent CodeStock presentation I gave entitled, "Useful jQuery tips, tricks, and plugins with ASP.NET MVC" I've done several talks about jQuery over the last several months and a common question I get is how to get jQuery Intellisense into Visual Studio. The steps to include Intellisense are actually quite straight forward and are actually easier than they were several months ago...

Quick FTP file upload in .NET

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:59:00 GMT

Uploading files using FTP is quick and easy in .NET framework. Below is a simplest possible method to upload a local file to a FTP server. Example is in

How to export delimited (tab, space, comman) file from query analyzer

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:22:30 GMT

Read this tutorial if you want to export delimited file from a select query.

25 Very Important interview tips for anyone

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:40:03 GMT

25 Very Important interview tips for beginners. These are really good tips specially for people who are newly searching for jobs or have not attended an interview from long time.

XAML to PNG converter

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:29:16 GMT

Have you ever wanted to load a Xaml files into your application ? Have you ever wanted to export a control to an image at the size you wanted ? This post will give you the answer !

Remotely Enabling Remote Desktop from the Command Line

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:51:18 GMT

How to enable RDP for a remote machine via the command line.

Windows Installer and Extensibility.dll

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:36:06 GMT

Windows Installer is one of my favorite problem childs - of course, when it has mysteriuos problems. I found a problem when installing Outlook add-in on machine that has no extensibility features installed on it. Something was missing and installer gave me the famous "Unable to get installer types" error. After pointless waste of time tracing installer and checking its logs I checked out what's going on in file system.

Loop through session variables and display the results

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:31:27 GMT

This is a great little utility I created some time ago that looks through all of the current users session variable to and displays them in a list down the page, it is very helpful in determining whether or not a session variable is alive, you could also port it to be used with cookies as well. Just create a page like sessiontest.aspx and paste in the following code save it to your server and run it to see the results...

CSS Tooltips

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:11:16 GMT

Nice little brief on how to achieve tooltips using pure css

Virtual machine software, which do you use?

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:23:52 GMT

I have used many virtual machine applications over the years, VMWare Workstation, VMWare ESX server, and oddly enough only a few months ago Microsoft Virtual Server. Now most recently, a sleeper and a route I would never thought I would take, but since I needed a 64-bit virtual machine on a 32-bit host machine I was referred to SUNS VirtualBox

If blocks and readable code

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:50:09 GMT

Writing readable code is as important as writing high performance working code. One of the things which can easily affect the readability of the code we write is improper structuring of if/else blocks.

WPF: a generic 'server-side' pagination data provider

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:53:32 GMT

A very simple solution to build a generic 'server-side' pagination data provider that you can use in WPF.

Dimecasts.NET plugin for PLEX

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:22:52 GMT

A plugin for viewing dimecasts in Plex media center

I Love Code Generation - Why Don't You?

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:15:00 GMT

I have a passion for code generation. I use it everyday to create thousands upon thousands of lines of boring, routine code. In this article I explore 3 reasons why I love code generation. I hope it causes those who don't use code generation to adopt it.

3 Reasons Not to Use Relative Dates in Web Pages

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:03:39 GMT

Reasons to avoid relative dates in web pages.

How to become a better tester (for developers)

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:45:33 GMT

How do you become better at testing software - both your own and your teammates? The problem is complex - the solution is not... Click here to learn the secret

Refactoring: extract method

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:58:38 GMT

Extract method is one of the most popular refactoring method when dealing with legacy code. In legacy code we can often find methods that are very long. My favorite findings methods about 2000 lines of code. Cool, isn't it? Those methods have usually many responsibilities and they are hard to debug. Having more than one responsibility in one method leads also to duplicated code because some responsibility is required in more than one place in code.

Refactoring: expose static method

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:51:04 GMT

You may discover sometimes that some of your classes have method you would like to use without creating new instance of that class. In this case we have to use expose static method refactoring to make this method static.

Refactoring: delete unneeded code

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:37:14 GMT

It is not a miracle that during coding developers produce code that is later not needed anymore. It is also not a miracle that unneeded code will stay in project files waiting for the day when somebody finds this code useful (again). But this far this code is just sitting there and causing problems to people who look at these modules first time.

Refactoring: introduce constant

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:09:14 GMT

One way to write messy code is to use constant values in code without any explanations about their values or purpose. Sometimes it feels like too small problem to think about, specially when there are only couple of constants, but I am sure that hard coded constants may waste developers valuable time more than one may think at first place. To make this kind of code easier to read and understand we can use refactoring method called introduce constant.

Refactoring: rename method

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:51:30 GMT

One of the simplest refactoring methods is called Rename method. There are many reasons why one may want to change the name of some method. I think that main reason to rename a method is to give it a name that describes better what method is supposed to do.

Refactoring: extract interface

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:38:43 GMT

Extract interface is one of the most common refactoring techniques. Motivation behind extract interface refactoring method is to avoid direct dependencies between classes. Instead of using classes in method calls we use interfaces so we can also use subclasses of those classes we used before. Also we can create brand new classes that use follow these interfaces and we can use these classes instead of current ones.