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• COM+ registration and permission errors

  If you are using EnterpriseServices (COM+) from a web application you need to make sure that you manually register your components with COM+ when deploying your app. If you don't register your services with COM+ then, when you run your application for... Posted Nov 10 2004, 02:36 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: C#, VB.NET, Web Forms

• How to study for an MS certification exam

  Today the question was asked about techniques used when studying for MS certification exams. I've passed a few of them so, here's my secret ;-) When studying for MS Exams I... First read the books: Web Exam Windows Exam Services Exam The books are great... Posted Nov 09 2004, 09:24 AM by digory with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: C#, VB.NET, Web Forms, Windows Forms, Community

• Visual Web Developer Express Edition FAQ

  Visual Web Developer Express (VWD) is a lightweight tool for building ASP.NET applications and WebServices. What is VWD? http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=11639 Where can I get VWD? http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/default.aspx What... Posted Jun 30 2004, 11:22 AM by digory with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: C#, VB.NET, Web Forms, Whidbey, Windows Forms, Community

• NullReferenceException = LoadFromFile( ... ) ;

  The other day I was trying to fix a problem on a website. The problem was that, whenever I tried to load a file from the filesystem, I received a NullReferenceException being thrown from "GdipLoadImageFromFile"! Anyways, I got straight onto Justin Rogers... Posted May 17 2004, 08:26 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: C#, VB.NET, Web Forms

• ReThrowing exceptions

  Here's some good pointers for re-throwing exceptions: http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/archives/004118.shtml Posted May 15 2004, 10:23 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: Bookmarks, C#, VB.NET, Web Forms, Windows Forms

• ViewState size, File Upload Memory Leak, Enums passed as Args and CancelEventArgs

  A bookmark of interesting posts which I've seen in the past couple of days... An interesting post about Serialization of objects and how their sizes in ViewState can be coerced by altering the TypeConverter used in the serialization process: http://weblogs... Posted May 12 2004, 10:03 AM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: Bookmarks, C#, VB.NET, Web Forms, Windows Forms

• Mixing Server and Client-side - is it hard to be elegant?

  I had to write some functionality for a friend tonight based on the following request : When double-clicking on a textbox, toggle the enabled/disabled state of the textbox and, if it's disabled set it's background to red. Also, make sure that the settings... Posted May 03 2004, 12:01 AM by digory with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Code Snippets, Web Forms

• SqlDataReader.Dispose( [I think]true ) ;

  I've finally started doing some application development again (it's been a while), and had to construct a bunch of DataTier methods and classes. I did lots of data access but, one of the things that I noticed was that I didn't use a single data reader... Posted Dec 06 2003, 02:07 PM by digory with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: C#, VB.NET, Web Forms, Windows Forms

• Am I at the PDC? ... Virtually I am!

  Kirk Allen Evans has provided an excellent dump of features from Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET Whidbey session: http://weblogs.asp.net/kaevans/posts/33914.aspx I know that it's an impressive list but, one of my personal favourites is this: VS.NET no longer... Posted Oct 28 2003, 12:58 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: C#, VB.NET, Web Forms

• MarkItUp.Web.Utilities.Personalization

  One of the projects that I'm currently working on requires a fair amount of "personalization" data to be stored in Cookies on the client so, this afternoon I decided to create a wrapper around the HttpCookies collection class to abstract some of the tasks... Posted Oct 10 2003, 06:25 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: C#, Code Snippets, Tools, Web Forms