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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...