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September 2004 Entries

Dispose Do's and Don'ts

Chris Lyon continues to give advice on the Dispose method.

posted @ Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:09 AM | Feedback (0) |

RSS Doesn't Scale

Jon Galloway has some insightful commentary on the scalability of RSS.

posted @ Saturday, September 25, 2004 5:31 AM | Feedback (0) |

Reporting Progress From SQL Server

Nat Luengnaruemitchai demonstrates how to send a progress report to the InfoMessage event.

posted @ Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:20 AM | Feedback (0) |

.NET Service Pack Setup Issues

Aaron Stebner has some tips if your service pack setup is failing.

posted @ Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:17 AM | Feedback (0) |

Demystifying Dispose

Chris Lyon outlines what does and does not happen when you call Dispose.

posted @ Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:04 AM | Feedback (0) |

FormsAuthentication.UserData

Scott Stewart describes a sneaky problem caused by a limit in the size of the UserData property.

posted @ Sunday, September 19, 2004 4:52 PM | Feedback (0) |

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.

posted @ Sunday, September 19, 2004 4:43 PM | Feedback (0) |

IsNewSession

Bil Simser has some information on using this little known property of the Session object.

posted @ Friday, September 17, 2004 6:02 AM | Feedback (0) |

Introduction To MSIL

Kenny Kerr continues his introduction to MSIL.

posted @ Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:33 PM | Feedback (0) |

Login Problems With Crystal Reports.NET

Richard Dudley takes a look at causes and solutions to the “Login Failed” error message with Crystal Reports.

posted @ Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:22 PM | Feedback (3) |

Software Development Considered Harmful

Read about 8 mistakes in software development on the Tea Leaves blog.

posted @ Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:11 PM | Feedback (0) |

Thread.CurrentPrincipal versus HttpContext.Current.User

Scott Hanselman uncovers a tricky scenario where these two security principals are not in sync.

posted @ Thursday, September 09, 2004 3:54 AM | Feedback (1) |

MissingMethodException

Teemu Keiski describes how he had to debug this exception, and the VB code behind it.

posted @ Friday, September 03, 2004 7:06 PM | Feedback (0) |

.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.

posted @ Friday, September 03, 2004 7:04 PM | Feedback (0) |

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. 

posted @ Friday, September 03, 2004 7:02 PM | Feedback (0) |

The DataSet Debate

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

posted @ Friday, September 03, 2004 7:00 PM | Feedback (0) |

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