September 2004 - Posts

Monday, September 27, 2004 10:09 PM

Dispose Do's and Don'ts

Chris Lyon continues to give advice on the Dispose method.
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Friday, September 24, 2004 10:31 PM

RSS Doesn't Scale

Jon Galloway has some insightful commentary on the scalability of RSS.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:20 PM

Reporting Progress From SQL Server

Nat Luengnaruemitchai demonstrates how to send a progress report to the InfoMessage event.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:17 PM

.NET Service Pack Setup Issues

Aaron Stebner has some tips if your service pack setup is failing.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:04 PM

Demystifying Dispose

Chris Lyon outlines what does and does not happen when you call Dispose.
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Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:52 AM

FormsAuthentication.UserData

Scott Stewart describes a sneaky problem caused by a limit in the size of the UserData property.
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Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:43 AM

XP SP2 And Virtual PC Performance

Steve Muench has an inside scoop on SP1 for Virtual PC, and why you'll need it with XP SP2.
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Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:02 PM

IsNewSession

Bil Simser has some information on using this little known property of the Session object.
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:33 AM

Introduction To MSIL

Kenny Kerr continues his introduction to MSIL.
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:22 AM

Login Problems With Crystal Reports.NET

Richard Dudley takes a look at causes and solutions to the “Login Failed” error message with Crystal Reports.
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:11 AM

Software Development Considered Harmful

Read about 8 mistakes in software development on the Tea Leaves blog.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:54 PM

Thread.CurrentPrincipal versus HttpContext.Current.User

Scott Hanselman uncovers a tricky scenario where these two security principals are not in sync.
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Friday, September 03, 2004 12:06 PM

MissingMethodException

Teemu Keiski describes how he had to debug this exception, and the VB code behind it.
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Friday, September 03, 2004 12:04 PM

.NET SP1 And The ASPNET account

If you explicitly set the ASPNET account's password instead of using AutoGenerate in the machine.config file, SP1 has a nasty little suprise in store. J. Ambrose Little describes what happens.
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Friday, September 03, 2004 12:02 PM

Virtual PC Default Folder

I like to keep my Virtual PC configurations outside of the My Documents folder. Peter Provost found a Microsoft knowledge base article to set a new default home folder. 
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Friday, September 03, 2004 12:00 PM

The DataSet Debate

Nick Wienholt has a few good arguments in favor of using the DataSet.
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