I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to. Besides the common software development tools, like Visual Studio, SQL Server, Ruby, Office...

How to Create Windows Services It's not uncommon for an enterprise application to need some form of background processes to do continuous work. These could be tasks such as Cleanup abandoned shopping carts Delete temporary files left behind by some report or image generation feature Send email notifications...

There are situations sometimes when .NET loads wrong assembly or can't load one at all. Usually we can see TypeLoadException in that case. Assuming we have exception at all. One of my work colleagues had situation today that gave a real world example for post I was thinking about quite long time. There...

Usually object validation requires writing a lot of code that examines properties and returns validation result. With VAB this scenario becomes extremely easy and simple. Let us consider sample class: 1 public class User 2 { 3 public User() 4 { 5 } 6 7 private string _firstName; 8 public string FirstName...