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... is .NET. I know it sounds a bit strange, but I really think that's true. Before the .NET era, the world was divided between two groups: The USA and the USSR. Ok, just joking: The programming world was divided between two groups: The VB group, and...
I couldn't overcome my curiosity, and I donwloaded the source code used by SUN for their comparison of the .NET vs Java web service performance. The first thing that striked me was, that out of 208 files in the ZIP file, only 44 are related to .NET. All...
While reading the VSTO setup instructions, I found the following paragraph under the “Troubleshooting Setup”: Issue: High contrast mode hides text in the Setup wizard. If you have your monitor set to use High Contrast, the text in the Setup...
One of the frequent problems we encounter while developing web applications is how to inform the user about an action that has been performed. Take, for example, the following (quite common) scenario: A user types data in some textboxes on the page, and...
I am now functioning (beside the regular technological activities) as a team leader for two parallel projects in our company - one medium (web based) .NET project, and one huge J2EE project. This has been the reason for lack of writing lately. This is...
We are developing an application which should display map to the user, allowing him to click on a specific regions on it. Problem is - the map is big, the screen is small (relatively, that is...). We didn't want to have a big scroller, because the user...
We have an application which should produce reports in Excel format. The first thing I thought about was to send the client an XML string which conforms to Excel standard, and set the content type to “Application/vnd.excel” (BTW, does anybody...
Now, after the dust has settled after MS announcement of delaying ObjectSpaces until Longhorn release, I think it's time to see what we've learnt from that. For a long time, most of the entries in the BlogSphere discuss features that will be rellevant...
Ashish has posted about his dilemma - whether to throw Exceptions or return Error codes. (His post has disappeared since, for some unknow reason). We encountered this dilemma also, especially from a developers that have strong background in VB6 (The Java...
Sometimes I feel a bit confused about the proper usage of "Try...Catch" blocks. The (healthy?) developer instinct is to put it wherever possible. However, I think that an over-usage of it can lead to an unnecessary cumbersomeness of the code, without...
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