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What Gives? DEBUG, RELEASE & Inline

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:40:40 GMT

What is the different between DEBUG and RELEASE? Why should you care about it? How to ignore JIT optimization? Read this post to find more...

Silverlight 2 : Playing Multiple Videos with One Media Element

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:10:38 GMT

Playing Multiple Videos with one media element making use of Media_Ended( ) event

Virtual file.... from IStream

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:16:07 GMT

The blogpost shows how to create a virtual file if you have implementation of IStream. The article includes a C# implemenation of IStream and a few samples. So you can create a virtual file with any behavior! Hope it can be interesting for .net developers :)

Create Portable Applications With Ease

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:16:15 GMT

BoxedApp SDK 2.0, a DLL library from Softanics enables developers to take advantage of the next generation technology - application virtualization to create a portable application with zero installation that relies on the virtual environment to run.

Microsoft Embracing the Cloud

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:02:35 GMT

Microsoft has a number of solutions that appear to form a very strong offering for enterprise class web 2.0 applications: (including new projects : Red Dog / Velocity / Zermatt)

Managed C++: Embedding Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:16:11 GMT

If you use a DLL written in Managed C++, you should a few DLLs from the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package installed. There are no usual ways to link these libraries statically (due to C++ / CLI restrictions). But there a way to include these DLLs into your application, see how in this article.

Classes that show up in every project

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Jeremy Miller lists classes that show up in also every project is works with.

How To Grab Frames From A Flash Movie

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:46:02 GMT

A small article with code sample of how to grab frames of a flash movie in realtime.

Use ActiveX components without registration

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:31:02 GMT

The article describes how to use ActiveXs without registration. The method is also usable for .net applications, many of them still use many Activexs ;) The concept is interesting: all changes made by ActiveX's registration saves in virtual registry only.

10 ways to keep employees happy (IT employees)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:56:25 GMT

10 ways to keep employees happy

Clean your HTML inputs or the dog-eaters will get to you

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:02:36 GMT

Google sent quite a few people looking for underground Korean adult movies to my blog. I guess that you can find anything on Internet these days, but why were they looking for it on my web site? The answer to that question turned out to be another great example of why inputs should be cleaned up no matter how unimportant.

Flash Component for .NET

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Sometime ago I had a task: to create a flash projector (something like Zinc or mProjector) with C#. This program should convert input SWF files and other resources into single EXE file that should work in semitransparent or window mode. Optionally, flash.ocx / flash9.ocx can be included into final exe file. After surfing over Internet, I've found this interesting product. I hope we will create a good flash projector with it :)

myHealth

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:18:30 GMT

myHealth is a new WPF based application I recently released on codeplex. This article discusses some of the things I learned while writting myHealt (Like DependencyObject vs INotifyPropertyChanged, etc)

.NET Runtime Embedding

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:01:08 GMT

Hi all, One interesting product, BoxedApp, can be used to pack .NET runtime with .NET application into a single exe. Instead of other solutions (Salamander), you will see which files are embbeded and how does it work at all, you will see the whole picture. BTW, I've tested it under my Win2k3 machine and it really works well...

lessthandot - Regular Pentagon Puzzle

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:00:48 GMT

We've decided to do a recurring feature at LessThanDot and have a "Programmer Puzzles" section with interesting puzzles published. This week the challenge is to identify the outer points in a regular pentagon (or n-sided polygon for extra credit), given the center point and the radius. You can use any programming language you like, just please let people know which one you have decided to use!

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

ASP.NET MVC: Strongly typing form methods with input values

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Description of how you can use LINQ to implement a missing feature of the HtmlHelper class

A Job Interview Challenge - A Needle in a Haystack

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:46:17 GMT

You are writing a software component that receives a binary record every 20 millisecond. Your component function as a pipe, meaning it can't store the binary records, it should do whatever needed on the current record and than pass it to the next component in the pipeline

NCache Stays Superior to Velocity

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:46:30 GMT

Well I have seen all these solutions but found NCache as the best one becuase no other solution is available for Object Caching. I was comparing the CTP1 of Microsoft's Velocity and to my surprise they almost copied the wordings of NCache's description. I had also compared the detailed features so far discussed by Velocity at TechEd with all these solutions and again found NCache a step ahead. The pricing is not that complex. Its only the way you understand it. I have bought it for 15 CPUs and so far have been getting excellent support from this company. I had a comprehensive demo and testing as well where they showed 100%. The big plus of NCache is that they have always been bringing new topologies which are still missing with other solutions. I am not sure what will be Licensing structure of Microsoft for this as Microsoft has always been very clever in their Licensing structures. I had bought some Licenses of Microsoft GP for my organization few months ago. The actual cost was way different from the one initially told. The basic structure has so many features missing. When I asked for some common features I was heavily charged. I am worried that they may repeat the same here as well.