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Upgrading all projects to .NET 3.5
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 checked). Works fine for regular C# projects, as well as...

Posted Sunday, May 25, 2008 11:56 AM by Avner Kashtan | 2 comment(s)

System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry and the non-equal Equals.
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 if they're not the same instance. However, contrary...

Posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 8:12 PM by Avner Kashtan | 3 comment(s)

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Displaying live log file contents
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 some of my code is running out-of-process, I can't really...

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 4:12 PM by Avner Kashtan | 3 comment(s)

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Dynamically creating a Sharepoint Web-Service proxy instance
In my current code, I find myself accessing many Sharepoint web services. In one run of code I can access 5-6 different web services on dozens of different sites, not necessarily even on the same server. Given that I find myself writing a lot of boilerplate...

Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 7:55 PM by Avner Kashtan | 5 comment(s)

Allowing timeout on long-running operations - possible bug
A while ago, I wrote about a simple pattern to allow us to put a timeout limitation on a long running operations. Simply put, it allows us to replace this: public MyObject GetData() { try { MyObject data = BigComponent.LongRunningOperation(); return data;...

Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 10:18 AM by Avner Kashtan | 1 comment(s)

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Retrieving all properties for a Sharepoint list
When we call the GetListItems or GetListItemChanges methods in Sharepoint's Lists Web Service, we pass an XmlNode parameter specifying which fields we want to return, in this format: <ViewFields> <FieldRef Name="ows_ID"/> </ViewFields>...

Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007 10:33 PM by Avner Kashtan | 4 comment(s)

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Granting User Rights in C#
As a follow-up to my previous post about changing a Windows Service's user account - there was one think I forgot. In order for a user to run a service, that user must be granted the "Run as Service" right by the operating system. Usually it's not a problem...

Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:36 PM by Avner Kashtan | with no comments

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Setting Windows Service Account - C# and WMI
I've been busting my brains for over two hours trying to accomplish a relatively simple task - changing the username and password of a currently running Windows Service. Should be trivial enough, but the managed ServiceController class doesn't give me...

Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:54 AM by Avner Kashtan | 10 comment(s)

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Preventing Outlook from closing with Alt-F4
I have come to the realization, at some point, that I never want to close Outlook. Really, there's no reason for me to shut it down except when doing something special, like freeing every available byte of memory, or when developing add-ins to it...

Posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:39 PM by Avner Kashtan | 4 comment(s)

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Reflecting over an Event
A coworker (Hey, Evgeny!) came to me with a puzzler today. He has an object that exposes an event, and he wants to know whether he's already subscribed to that event. Two things immediately came to mind - the first was that he really shouldn't...

Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:03 PM by Avner Kashtan | 4 comment(s)

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