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Create Portable Applications With Ease

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:16:15 GMT

BoxedApp SDK 2.0, a DLL library from Softanics enables developers to take advantage of the next generation technology - application virtualization to create a portable application with zero installation that relies on the virtual environment to run.

Adding a zip file utility to SQL server as a CLR Function

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:34:07 GMT

How to zip files using a CLR function for SQL Server.

WPF Binding Converter Best Practices

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

As you all remember in my article about Custom WPF Context Menu I mentioned that my WPF Binding Converter was a singleton, and I promised to tell you why, so here comes the 3 ways I know of using WPF Binding Converters. We will start from the worst (in my opinion) and move on the the best.

volatile and MemoryBarrier()...

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:16:40 GMT

That part I knew. what we news to me is there is a better way to do volatile, and that is with an explicitly memory barrier before accessing the data member.. We have a an API for that: System.Threading.Thread.MemoryBarrier(). This is more efficient than using volatile because a volatile field requires all accesses to be barriers and this effects some performance optimizations.

Updated version of Postback Ritalin - ASP.NET AJAX Server Control

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:01:02 GMT

PostBack Ritalin is an ASP.NET AJAX server control to help simplify the common task of disabling buttons and imagebuttons during partial postbacks.

Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 1

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:31:06 GMT

Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee sat down with the hosts Keith and Woody to discuss this growing design practice and also discuss how it could be used with the .NET platform.

Managed C++: Embedding Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:16:11 GMT

If you use a DLL written in Managed C++, you should a few DLLs from the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package installed. There are no usual ways to link these libraries statically (due to C++ / CLI restrictions). But there a way to include these DLLs into your application, see how in this article.

Use ActiveX components without registration

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:31:02 GMT

The article describes how to use ActiveXs without registration. The method is also usable for .net applications, many of them still use many Activexs ;) The concept is interesting: all changes made by ActiveX's registration saves in virtual registry only.

LINQ & Lambda, Part 3: Html Agility Pack to "LINQ to XML" Converter

Mon, 26 May 2008 06:09:13 GMT

In this part of the LINQ & Lambda series a pseudo LINQ to HTML parser is created with the HTML Agility Pack and extension method magic.