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
SYSK 373: How to Impersonate the Original Caller When Calling the WCF Service in ASP.NET by Configuration Only
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
SYSK 365: How to get your unit tests (test project in Visual Studio 2008, a.k.a. MSTest) run multithreaded
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
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Not all my SYSK (something you should know) posts are software development technology related, but I...
Date: 07/15/2007
SYSK 354: How To Determine If The Page_Load Event Is Triggered by a Standard Page Postback or by the UpdatePanel?
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