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Building a Desktop Feed Reader Part Three: Downloading Feeds

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:10:39 GMT

The third part in a series of building a desktop RSS reader on the .NET Framework platform. In this installment, in addition to reviewing the progress so far, we take a look at the first of the challenges: how do we download and interpret RSS feeds?

Building a Desktop Feed Reader Part Two: Understanding The Problem

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:34:27 GMT

The second part in a series of buidling a desktop RSS reader on the .NET Framework platform. In this installment, in addition to reviewing the progress so far, we take a look at the rationale and make some architectural and design decisions

Building a Desktop Feed Reader Part One

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:04:03 GMT

First part on a series of building a desktop RSS Feed Reader on the .NET platform, with screen shots articulating the rationale, architectural and design choices made and the challenges faced and how they were overcome

Profiling .NET Applications

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:31:02 GMT

A guide with screen shots illustrating how to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in a .NET application using a profiler

Excel 2007's Multiplication Bug: Food for thought

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:06:03 GMT

Excel 2007 has an interesting (though embarrassing) multiplication bug that ought to give developers quite some food for thought for some of the things that they take for granted ...

Rolling Back Truncates

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:28:59 GMT

Contrary to popular belief, it is in fact possible to roll back truncate table statements in SQL Server. A step by step illustration with code and screenshots

Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

Sat, 05 May 2007 13:24:33 GMT

There must be a very good reason why Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals, one that leads Microsoft to snatch defeat from the jaws of victrory

Shot In Foot

Fri, 04 May 2007 16:02:12 GMT

SQL Management Studio can merrily let you shoot yourself in the foot if you're not careful ...

J# - Taken out of its misery

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:01:03 GMT

Few have caught Microsoft's announcement with regards to the fate of Visual J#

Unzipping At Server Side : Installing Community Server

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:18:49 GMT

A small ASP.NET utility (with code) that extracts a zip file containing a CommunityServer installation folder structure and files . The article also illustrates subtle gotchas with unzipping folder structures in general and in particular using ASP.NET

Automatic Properties C# 3 Reploaded

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:31:01 GMT

Automatic properties are around the corner and will soon be amongst us. It's about time! Though they could have been some interesting alternative implementations ....

Quote Unquote

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:36:21 GMT

One of our industry's acronyms, used injudiciously, can sow the seeds of destruction ...

Ethics (Or Lack Thereof)

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:27:13 GMT

It speaks volumes of the industry when software companies that ought to best appreciate intellectual property propagate dubious practices like plagiarizing websites

Virtual PC 2007 RC released

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:31:02 GMT

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Grey Matter: Code Generation On A Budget

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:31:02 GMT

What do you do when you have the specs for a 500 column table and are required to create the table, an update stored procedure and data bound code? You get smart. Real smart.

ASP.NET Project Source Code Removal

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:54:56 GMT

Every needed to quickly remove all your source code (intellectual property) from an asp.net project prior to deployment? This utility (with fully documented source code) is just the thing for you!

Customizing Windows PowerShell

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:01:02 GMT

The Windows PowerShell is very powerful. And it is all the more powerful by the fact that it can be customized. For instance, it can be customized to display things much much better than default ....