A while ago, I posted an entry about marshalling a managed System.String into an unmanaged C string, specifically a plain char*. The solution I suggested, back in 2007, involved calling Marshal:: … more

Here’s a little gotcha I ran into today – if you have code in a class’s static constructor that throws an exception, we will get a TypeInitializationException with the original exception as the … more

A simple macro to change the Target Framework for a project from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5, hacked together in a few minutes. This will fail for C++/CLI projects, and possibly VB.NET projects (haven't … more

I'm writing a piece of code that regularly polls a MOSS server and checks several files. This can happen quite a few times a day, and this totally skews my Usage Reports for my sites. Does anyone … more

Has anything been released - or, in fact, talked about - since August's release of the v1.1 CTP? Haven't done any web-part development in a while and wanted to get back in the game. I last used the … more

I'll use my blog for a bit of fishing for advice and guidance on an issue that's been bugging me. We've been moving towards using strong names on all of our assemblies. The benefits are obvious, and … more

Just a quick heads-up in case you're stumped with this problem, or just passing by: The System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry class implements the Equals method to check if two entries are identical, even … more

I'm writing some benchmarking code, which involves a Console application calling a COM+ hosted process and measuring performance. I want to constantly display results on my active console, but since … more