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Re-installing .Net Framework 2.0, 3.5 broke it!

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:59:04 GMT

Who knew that installing 3.5 will bring me down to my knees. I can't do anything 2.0 anymore since I installed 3.5, it seems it installed SP1 for 2.0 and that broke everything that has to do with 2.0 and check out the icon, found out the icon was different after an hour of research trying to figure out what was wrong with my .NET applications.

Properties or Public variables - The debate must end!

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:42:55 GMT

Ok, seriously, this debate must end! I strongly believe that changing a variable to a property is breaking a change! However, others feel otherwise.

Programmatically add META tags to your page header

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:03:25 GMT

At some point in time, especially when you are doing some serious SEO optimization, you may want to use separate titles, keywords, description and etc. for each page. Thanks, to .NET we can quickly create HtmlMeta controls programmatically and add them to the page header. Here is a quick and dirty snippet.

My favorite interview questions

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:31:03 GMT

These are some of the questions that I ask when I'm interviewing a new applicant for a developer position.

The uncommon features of C#.

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:16:02 GMT

A quick and dirty post about the few keywords & statements that developers rarely use.

Building a custom ASP.NET paging control

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:05:57 GMT

As an IT Consultant with numerous number of projects that has to do with a lot of data which at the end of the day requires paging - I'm really tired of writing paging methods for every project. Therefore, on this nice beautiful Saturday I've decided that I'll knock out a paging control which I'll gladly call the Data Pager Control.

Downloading a file using pure .Net Socket

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:47:09 GMT

Ok, so sometimes HttpWebRequest and WebClient does not really cut it, so you have no choice but to perform a raw download - socket is the way to go. Here is a quick and dirty way of downloading a file using socket. .Net sockets are not limited to http, you can use it to download files from different protocols.

Sending email via GMail smtp server

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:45:40 GMT

If for some reason you need to send mail via the Google GMail SMTP server, here is how you do it. Keep in mind that the connection has to be secured and it's using an unusual port. If you have a firewall, you may want to do some re-configuration.

C# - check for internet connection

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:42:51 GMT

A better and cleaner way for checking for an active internet connection.

What is .Net Generics - A Beginners Guide?

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:43:15 GMT

As famous as the word generics is among .Net developers, I was amazed when I found out that a huge percentage of .Net developers have only heard of it but have never actually used it or know of any reason why they should use it. If you have read my past articles, you would know that my philosophy is to code simple and efficiently, there is no need to write complex code that could have been done with simple techniques.