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Better Transactions with Delegates in C#
This article was first published in the ACCU magazine CVu in August 2005. Reproduced here with permission. Source code for this article (in C#/.NET 1.1) is at...
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Microsoft Application Blocks
Microsoft Application Blocks form a collection of ready-built ‘clumps’ of code which solve common problems such as security management, data access, logging, etc. They are the tangible result of the...
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Grey Matter Workout
I spent part of today scratching my head and dredging up long-forgotten details of the .Net Framework and C# over at BrainBench.com – to my relief, I didn’t disgrace myself: a test score average of...
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Simple CMS Frameworks
I have some experience with using DotNetNuke as a CMS. It’s free, open-source, and has pretty good engineering. There are plenty of add-on modules available from sites like Snowcovered. Some of the UI...
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Calling Javascript from C#
Call JavaScript from C# code, passing parameters and returning results. I came across a need to call JavaScript methods on HTML code inside a web page from a C# WinForms application. How could that...
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Work around limitations of VS 2005 Deployment Projects with Windows Services
I needed to deploy a Windows Service using an MSI. The project was built in VS 2005 using .Net 2.0; so far, so good. The problem arose when I wanted to have the Service write to its own Event Log,...
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CLR Contexts
[This is a very old article I wrote back in 2002 when I worked for a company which built MRI scanners and was subsequently bought by Oxford Instruments. With COM being once again relevant with the...
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Advanced Call Processing in the CLR
[This is a very old article I wrote back in 2002 when I worked for a company which built MRI scanners and was subsequently bought by Oxford Instruments. With COM being once again relevant with the...
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CLR-COM Interop
[This is a very old article I wrote back in 2002 when I worked for a company which built MRI scanners and was subsequently bought by Oxford Instruments. With COM being once again relevant with the...
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New eBook on Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET
Back in 2010 when Jez Humble and Dave Farley wrote their ground-breaking book Continuous Delivery, the Windows and .NET platforms lagged behind the Linux/Mac world in terms of automation capability....
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