Category: .NET

  This year, I’ll be at the annual Microsoft DevDays in The Netherlands where you can ask me anything on web development. My base of operation at the conference will be somewhere in the ‘Ask-the-Experts’ area. Though you may also[…]

In ASP.NET Web Forms most times there’s a need to set ASP.NET Server Control properties at runtime. This, for instance: <asp:Button runat="server" id="Button1" visible="true" /> It is pretty straightforward to set the value of the visible-property in a code-behind page,[…]

Trying to find a method to sort a generic list, I found this solution. While this seems like an elegant solution, I found it a bit much code for my purpose. I only wanted to sort a list with objects that[…]

An interesting tool from Google allows you to display the trend of search terms over time. Out of curiosity, I looked at the popularity of the terms “visual basic” and “c#”. It doesn’t look too good for VB. (Red line[…]

Working on a new project, I needed to read some elements from an XML file. As a matter of habit, I used XPath, but later I figured this was a good opportunity to try it out using LINQ. So here[…]

According to the MSDN Subscriptions WebLog we can expect to see Visual Studio 2008 to be downloadable early next week. “Visual Studio 2008 is anticipated out early next week, with availability for Subscribers. Check out the “Top Subscriber Downloads” area[…]

Recently, I started a on a new project as a development coordinator. One of the tasks we face is a migration from Rational ClearCase to Team Foundation Server. A tool that should help in doing this has just been released. What[…]

The new DevTips.NET website allows for people to comment on most content, unlike the old site. Obviously this opened up possibilities to add comment spam on all the places. There is a common technique to counter this, called CAPTCHA or[…]

Here’s something that bit me today. A few days ago, a Windows Service I built was redeployed to another machine. Most operations went on just fine, but some didn’t. And as always: ‘it worked on my machine’. As it had also[…]