In all my years of doing .Net I have to say that I finally came across the exception message that takes the cake. Today while trying to do some refactoring on the DimeCasts.net code base I received this exception. Operation could destabilize the runtime I received the error while trying to update some...

Today I decided to sit down and upgrade the Dimecasts.net code to run on MVC preview 4. To be honest I did not know exactly what to expect, and I have to say, it was kinda painful but not too bad. Let me first start off by saying this. Anyone that decides to build a production application of any size...

In my last post I talked about how you can share a single config file among multiple project in a solution.  One of the feedback comments I got was how to have a single config file for multiple developers or even multiple environments.  So, today I thought I would chat about the different ways...

This post is another in the recent string of How-to's. But it is just so hard to resist. .Net 3.5 has so many cool features, it is just fun to explore them all. Ok, so here is the issue we are going to solve today. We have a list of entities and we need to sort them. In this post I will show you...

The System.ComponentModel namespace (more information here ) in .Net contains an array of various attributes that every .Net developer should know about.  These attributes provide a way for the developer to implement design-time and run-time behavior on both controls and components.  In addition...

I just thought I would share a little trick I used today to back in Async web service calls into existing code using anonymous delegates. Here was my problem: I have a library that makes use of an existing web service that I do not control (so I cannot change/up the timeout on this). I have been using...

I thought I would post a quick 'Getting-Started' guide for MOSS development. This post comes from my experience learning how to develop for MOSS. This post is a quick listing of what is needed to get your environment up and running. As you may or may not already know, MOSS will only run on Windows...

In my continued learning on SharePoint and how to manipulate the data stored in SharePoint I thought I would post on how to perform updates on existing data inside a document library. When performing an update on data inside of SharePoint there are a few steps that need to happen to make your journey...

Have you ever wanted to or needed to view the actual contents of the GAC? Not just what is in the GAC, but actually grab the assemblies that are there? I know I have. You may be asking WHY did you want to grab an assembly that is in the GAC. 2 reasons: I wanted to move a copy of the assmebly from one...

If you have ever worked with XML, you know that XPath is your friend. Today I working with an XML document that was generated via MSWord and the generated document was well formed and included namespaces. Now, I have worked with namespaces in XML in the past, but it has been a LONG time. I thought I...