I've been using Vista since the official release (skipped the betas) and I've been trying to convince myself that some of the changes were made for the better. In particular, I've made some effort to get used to the new file explorer but somethings have been harder to put up with. Anyway...

So we've been working on a web project for a friend's startup company (I don't like doing work for my friends, but that's a different matter). Since he has no technological preference and since we are such bleeding edge kinda guys ( the Achilles' Heel of ALT.NET? ), we decided to...

No bug in Windows (XP and 2003) has annoyed me more than the one I just learned how to get rid of. For no discernible reason, while using the Windows Explorer the treeview on the left would just go bananas and display multiple Desktop icons. As seen in the following image. The additional Desktop icons...

A friend of mine was telling me about a bug he found in one of his applications caused by a simple lack of escaping quotes when producing CSV files. It immediately reminded me of an old trick in .NET. If you really want, you can create CSV files using ADO.NET and OLE-DB (or ODBC.) I wouldn't necessarily...

By default IIS binds (listens) to all IP addresses assigned to the server it's running on. This is problematic when you'd like one or more of the IP addresses to be used by another application, such as a Ruby on Rails app running on Apache or, in my case, Mingle . In these instances, it is desirable...

I was trying to write that post for so long that I've started worry that there will be new version of the Visual Studio before I will even start. Finally, I found some time and here it is. What I'm going to write about here is how to use the latest IDE to work with a .NET 1.1 applications. Before...

[Post publish note - 8/19/08: Frank Laub has provided a tip, in the comments below, for alternatively configuring your router for port forwarding rather than setting up a new listener port for each computer. This is exactly why I like to blog...for others to tell me an easier way to do things!] I often...

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...

I know, this is probably not news to anyone. TimeSpan is the native .NET type to represent time intervals. But answer quickly, SqlCommand.CommandTimeout represents the interval in milliseconds, seconds, or minutes? What about System.Timers.Timer.Interval ? To circumvent this situation we see all sorts...

In my posts, I'll distinguish shortcuts with square brackets, the name of the app, colon, then the actual shortcut. So for R#'s Extract Method: [R#:Ctrl+Alt+M] or Visual Studio's display the Solution Explorer: [VS:Ctrl+Alt+L] ReSharper I'm currently using ReSharper 4.0 and frequently...