Paul Sheriff's Blog for the Real World

This blog is for my ramblings and to share my tips, tricks and advice garnered over 20+ years in the IT industry. I like to focus on topics that affect real-world business application developers.

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I Love the File/Directory Classes in .NET!
I just had a situation where a potential client gave me a zip file of about 200 files. They wanted us to give them an estimate on how long it would take us to recreate each screen in ASP.NET 2.0. I did not relish the thought of typing in all those file...
Posted: Jun 15 2007, 05:53 PM by psheriff | with 4 comment(s)
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Use Close and Finally
In the last 2 weeks I have had two different clients complain that there are "memory leaks" in .NET. I tell them very politely, that most likely it is their code!<g> In both cases it was their code. The first case had to do with the programmers...
Posted: Jan 16 2007, 03:50 PM by psheriff | with 9 comment(s)
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Beware of Encoding Types when saving to a File
I learned something today... I was doing some Encryption of strings using DPAPI and converting them to a Base64 string and everything worked fine when I was encrypting and decrypting. However, when I saved the Base64 string to a file, then re-read the...
Posted: Jan 15 2007, 08:12 PM by psheriff | with 1 comment(s)
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