AppDev: Something You Should Know by Irena Kennedy

Everything that is related to application development, and other cool stuff...

Here is a quick-and-dirty (i.e. clean-up and optimize to your liking) way of doing it: Import-Module...

Date: 12/01/2016

If you downloaded XLabs open source controls from https://github.com/XLabs/Xamarin-Forms-Labs and...

Date: 01/13/2016

There are a few well known basic naming rules providing a consistent, understandable REST API...

Date: 08/24/2015

Back in 2010, Jeff Hanley published a sample of a ConditionallyRequiredAttribute that used a name of...

Date: 01/19/2015

I wanted to find out the overhead of getting the stack trace and finding a specific method in the...

Date: 09/27/2014

Not all error messages are created equal, and some of them are less helpful than others. Here is one...

Date: 09/01/2014

Check out a good post by one of my coworkers --...

Date: 09/01/2014

There may be instances when using data transfer objects (DTO) is appropriate. For example, if you...

Date: 07/20/2014

Since .NET 1.0, we’ve all been told – strings are immutable, so for best performance,...

Date: 07/06/2014

I’m working on a project where a service hosted elsewhere requires Windows authentication. As...

Date: 09/30/2012

Doing a web search for a difference between basicHttpBinding and wsHttpBinding, I find just generic...

Date: 09/20/2012

Consider the following line of code: AttendeeAvailability attendeeAvailability; . . .if...

Date: 03/01/2012

Let’s say you need to quickly find some reference/lookup data and you decide to use...

Date: 01/26/2012

John Manaloto, one of the architects I’ve worked with recently, has been kind enough to allow...

Date: 01/26/2012

Once in a while, I post non-technical gems I come across… This one was one of those hard to...

Date: 04/06/2011

Last weekend I wrote a utility that does file synchronization (yes, I know there many such tools),...

Date: 03/28/2011

Last weekend I wrote a utility that does file synchronization (yes, I know there many such tools),...

Date: 03/28/2011

My current project uses Silverlight 4.0 and RIA services, and I quickly came to realize the benefits...

Date: 10/05/2010

Special thanks to David Petersen who has submitted this post! If you ASP.NET page that contains the...

Date: 09/26/2010

This is an update to...

Date: 08/19/2010

All the credit for the information in this post goes to Marc DeAntoni, and other Internet...

Date: 08/17/2010

I like to view photo images (.jpg files) using Large or Extra Large Icons view in Windows Explorer....

Date: 12/31/2009

One of common customer questions/requests I get is about industry best practices and recommendations...

Date: 12/16/2009

Traditionally, to implement role based authorization in .NET you would use PrincipalPermission...

Date: 12/02/2009

If your WCF services use role based authorization, and you need to pass the identity of the end user...

Date: 12/02/2009

As many web sites point out, TFS uses policies to implement a requirement that developers provide...

Date: 11/15/2009

Sometimes it’s necessary to test application performance in low available resource situations… I’ve...

Date: 09/16/2009

First, for those who may not be familiar with this feature, .NET 3.5 allows developers to add...

Date: 06/25/2009

If, from time to time, you delete some files & folders from your hard disk, either because it’s...

Date: 06/16/2009

First, I must start with the following disclaimer – this was my first SharePoint 2007 project, so, I...

Date: 04/08/2009

Do you wish there was an easier way to save individual messages to your hard disk in Outlook 2007?...

Date: 12/16/2008

As a consultant, I frequently work at my customer sites, and at my home office. Needless to say,...

Date: 12/16/2008

If you want to test code that requires an MTA threading model (e.g. the code being tested uses...

Date: 02/22/2008

Did you know that AJAX Extensions source code and debugging symbols are available to everybody at...

Date: 10/16/2007

I recently came across this gem http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/08/bricks.html -- strongly...

Date: 10/16/2007

Since I’m still coming across a lot of conflicting recommendations on the “best practices for...

Date: 10/12/2007

As much as I love writing the SYSK posts, the reality is that it takes a lot of time... For the last...

Date: 09/17/2007

There are many reasons for signing your assemblies (security being at the top of my list), but in...

Date: 08/10/2007

It was first used by the British in India in 1845, when soldiers turned their highly visible white...

Date: 08/09/2007

So, you’ve updated usage stats on your database by running EXEC sp_spaceused @updateusage = N'TRUE'...

Date: 08/07/2007

To my great surprise, after doing a search for a script that would delete the events logged by the...

Date: 08/05/2007

Answer: Magenta. It was named for the Battle of Magenta, which was fought in 1859 near the town of...

Date: 08/05/2007

Imagine this: you’re writing a custom user control and you’d like to execute a WWF ruleset when a...

Date: 08/05/2007

I just installed SQL Server 2008 CTP (Katmai) and all the patches on my Vista laptop… However,...

Date: 08/05/2007

Consider the following code snippet frequently found in sample applications, code snippets and...

Date: 07/20/2007

If you’re developing the front end, the user tier of applications, you may be interested in the...

Date: 07/17/2007

Not all my SYSK (something you should know) posts are software development technology related, but I...

Date: 07/15/2007

Ok, so you’re in a Page_Load code block, and the this.Page.IsPostBack returns true. How do you know...

Date: 07/12/2007

This is first in the series of small posts about new features in Orcas… 1. Orcas can be installed...

Date: 07/10/2007

The Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” calendar of 2007 states, and I quote: Elbert Hubbard’s book “An...

Date: 06/26/2007

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