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02 juni 2009
Developer Days 2009
Last week Microsoft The Netherlands held another great edition of the Developer Days. With a fantastic line-up of speakers and a smooth organization I guess everyone must have enjoyed it. I know I had a good time and hope you did as well. Thanks to those of you who attended any of my sessions. I have... Read More...
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30 augustus 2008
Golden Oldie: Dynamically generated thumbnails article
Related to my previous post on dynamic images , a long way back I wrote a two-part article for the now deceased (paid) website ASPToday . It was about a HttpHandler implementation that would generate a thumbnail image from an existing image. The handler was accompanied by a server control that would... Read More...
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29 augustus 2008
Trivia fact: ASP.NET dynamic images retro
You can find a nice release of the ASP.NET team for dynamically generated images for web applications on the Codeplex website. Others have already blogged about this, such as Scott Hanselman and David Hayden , so I'm not going to repeat that. I do want to add some information to this though. It's... Read More...
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24 december 2007
Command-line argument parser
This post has been in my Drafts folder for quite some time. Read on if you are interested in command-line argument/parameter parsing. I've blogged a couple of times on the Ventrilo (now on version 3.0) proxy and status port that Divinity and myself wrote. The console application that works both as a... Read More...
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10 februari 2007
The importance of releasing COM objects
Over the weekend I have been working on a project that involves a file processor service. The purpose of the service is to watch one or more folders and dispatch the incoming files to a corresponding file processor. One of the processors uses Captaris Alchemy , a document management repository, to store... Read More...
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31 december 2006
Prepping for exam 70-551
Apparently the boyscout motto is to "always be prepared". This certainly holds true for Microsoft Certificied Professional (MCP) exams. Last week I took the exam 70–551: UPGRADE: MCAD Skills to MCPD: Web Developer by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework . Here is how you can be prepared. Know this: The... Read More...
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20 december 2006
Never-ending story of Close versus Dispose
Erno de Weerd recently posted a blog entry on how SqlConnection.Dispose removes the connection from the connection pool. He concluded this after looking in Reflector and seeing this: 1 protected override void Dispose( bool disposing) 2 { 3 if (disposing) 4 { 5 this ._userConnectionOptions = null ; 6... Read More...
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29 maart 2006
RAD Race 2006 results: Class-A finishes 4th
A while ago I blogged about Class-A participating in the RAD Race 2006 . The team that spent two days in a too small room with about 25 other people consisted of Dennis van der Stelt and myself. We had to wait quite a while to get the results, but they were announced today at the Database Systems 2006... Read More...
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21 januari 2006
Releases for VS2005RTM
Just a set of links to stuff that has been released for the VS2005 RTM: Enterprise Library 2.0 Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2 (from Marc van de Wert 's log) Now you know as well. Read More...
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18 januari 2006
Array casting weirdness
The .NET runtime is type-safe. Sometimes compilers perform magic for us, that make us think that one type is substitutable for another. VB.NET is such an example. The VB compiler will cast and convert for you automatically if possible. You can turn this behavior off by specifying Option Strict On. A... Read More...
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