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How to check email works with no SMTP

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Testing code that sends email has always been a pain. You had to set up a SMTP service just to test that your .NET application sends the e-mail correctly...

Use DebuggerBrowsable attribute to clean up class view in a debugger

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:01:02 GMT

How to exclude extraneous class members from view in the debugger.

Speed up inserting records into database with SqlBulkCopy class

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:31:02 GMT

When you need to insert a great deal of rows into database...

Create elegant code with Action delegate and List.ForEach method

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:46:02 GMT

Small example of how to use Action delegate to perform some action on all elements of a collection.

Handling errors at the method level

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:52:41 GMT

[Use a combination of try.Catch blocks as a retry mechanism for error handling. ] If you were going to retry something ,you better use conventioal error handling and keep the throw...catch for exceptional cases only. Try/catch is known to be slow.

How to call a surrogate for Dispose() on StringBuilder objects

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:57:50 GMT

How to release memory used by StringBuilder without calling System.GC.Collect().

How to determine whether a property or a method is more appropriate

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:31:03 GMT

Guidelines for choosing between implementing a class member as a property or a method.

How to resolve relative url's without ResolveUrl

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:31:02 GMT

string absoluteUrl = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(relativeUrl);

Speed up Visual Studio 2005

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:46:12 GMT

Nice tricks to speed up Visual Studio 2005

Validate integer value before casting it to an Enum type

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:40:34 GMT

There is one thing you should watch out for when using enumerations. You can cast any integer to an Enum type and you will not get an exception message.

The C# ?? Operator

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:31:01 GMT

The C# ?? Operator

How to perform DateTime calculations in a right way

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:01:02 GMT

When coding, be careful if you need to perform DateTime calculations (add/subtract) on values representing time zones that practice daylight savings time.

Use DebuggerDisplay attribute for Easier Debugging

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:31:02 GMT

Did you know that you can appply DebuggerDisplay attribute to a class or member to determine how it is displayed in the watch window. It's quick, it's easy, and it really works!