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December 2006

  1. Project Management Process + Tools
  2. How to determine which clr version an assembly or executable is using
  3. Tagged!
  4. nunit testing 32-bit apps on 64-bit machine
  5. BizTalk: Anti-Patterns: Business Rule Engine
  6. BizTalk Pattern: Mapping Reference Data
  7. Tech in 5 minutes: the glory of yield return
  8. The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID - MOSS / SharePoint 2007 Server Issues Revisited
  9. BizTalk Messaging Model
  10. ASP.NET AJAX RC1 RSS Reader
  11. Windows XP error: svchost.exe - Application Error
  12. Editing Resource Files after publishing in ASP.NET 2.0
  13. Changing your hosts file in Vista
  14. The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error 2149648394 (0x8021080A).
  15. BizTalk Server 2006: An xpath() Function problem
  16. Encrypting Web.config and App.config
  17. Top 10 Most Influential People in the Microsoft .NET World
  18. Object Oriented Tagging : Adding Power to Web 2.0 Tags!
  19. Howto: Duplicate any Windows installation to a new hard disk using only a Vista DVD (!)
  20. How to Get Enum Values with Reflection in C#
  21. Warren Buffet
  22. Repost - Don't Forget the XPath string() function
  23. BizTalk Server 2006: The Compensation Model

November 2006

  1. BizTalk 2006 Configuration: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Transformation Services (DTS) for BAM Archiving is not installed on the local machine
  2. Helper code to extract embedded resource from project into Assembly
  3. Microsoft Visual Studio is Busy
  4. CPU Temperature Monitor
  5. RTM of Vista keeps the useful trick of hitting SHIFT-F10 during Setup
  6. Update appSettings in App.Config for executable.
  7. HOWTO: Podcasting with a Zune
  8. Using Reflection to Get and Set values of Properties
  9. Error installing .Net 3.0: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 has encountered a problem during setup.
  10. Batch Compilation Asp.Net
  11. Problems installing Office 2007
  12. How to: disable ClearType for 2007 Office System
  13. EasyBCD - A GUI for BCDedit
  14. Powershell scripting contest
  15. Database and web server on the same machine
  16. Association, Aggregation, Composition
  17. WSS 3.0BetaTR PDF search configuration and setup
  18. Changing an install directory dynamically in WiX 2.0
  19. New Windows XP Theme: Zune
  20. Does Your Code Work?
  21. Latest XBOX 360 update could be your last.
  22. Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

October 2006

  1. Cooperative Application Shutdown with the CLR
  2. Find the W3WP process for an Application Pool
  3. Difference between Layers and Tiers (Layers vs Tiers)?
  4. MonoRail vs ASP.Net
  5. ASP.NET event firing twice
  6. DataSet or DTOs (Data Transfer Objects)
  7. Vmware Time Sync
  8. Stored Procedures or SQL Text Queries (Embedded SQL Query)?
  9. aspnet_wp.exe and w3wp.exe
  10. How to delete a windows service
  11. What is the difference between D mode and B mode on the Toyota Camry Hybrid and Toyota Prius?
  12. Fix: Virtual PC Does Not Recognize Wireless NIC With a Vista OS Host
  13. Difference between a Struct and a Class ?
  14. BizTalk 2006 FailedMessage Routing
  15. Command Line Pointers for Windows Explorer
  16. MSDTC on server 'servername' is unavailable

September 2006

  1. Isolating NHibernate Logging
  2. How to use Subversion more effectively with proper Repository Structure and better use of Branching/Tagging/Versioning..
  3. How to Get Exchange Information from ADUC Without Installing ESM
  4. Why instance methods in java are virtual by default and in C# not?
  5. BizTalk Receive Locations Disabling
  6. Driving to South Carolina
  7. Passing Parameters from ASP.NET Application to Crystal Report Application
  8. ASP.NET DropDownList with OptionGroup Support
  9. Web Services - Sending Large SOAP Messages
  10. BT... and their Web 2.0 Questionnaire (One cannot define web 2.0 by O'Reilly alone!)
  11. Free Tools To Magnify Your Screen / Parts of it in Real Time (For Creative Guys / Designers and Guys who want to Magnify stuff during presentations).
  12. Lazy Vs Eager Init Singletons / Double-Check Lock Pattern
  13. Auto-complete in Dos (Hitting Tab to Complete Directory / File Names in CMD.EXE), Does Not Work!
  14. Nullable Types, What does int followed by Question-mark (int?) Mean? What's with the Double Question Marks and Other Syntaxes?
  15. Back To The Basics And Beyond! Generic Methods and Multiple Constraints.
  16. Null Object Pattern
  17. Transactions, Identity Columns and Foreign Key Constraint Errors - The Chicken Egg Situation
  18. The Decorator Pattern
  19. MSBUILD + MAGE.EXE = ClickOnce (Need some help... Experts welcome :-) )
  20. "Last Night, at BarCamp... there were Werewolves...!"
  21. Basic questions for Security Code Review
  22. MS BRE: Using XPath to handling XML in the Microsoft Business Rules Engine

August 2006

  1. Failed to Serialize the Message Part
  2. NHibernate Composite User Type (ICompositeUserType) gets even better
  3. Enterprise Library June 2005 Instrumentation Issue
  4. WMI Script to Terminate Suspended Orchestration Instances
  5. Solving the error "Could not find control 'xxx' in ControlParameter 'xxx'."
  6. How to fix an LCD projector with a washed-out yellowish image (blue LCD gone bad)
  7. VB.NET & C# comparision
  8. Mapping a byte array to a structure in C#
  9. Moving onto new position at Microsoft – MVP Lead for Canada
  10. Adding Pings to Windows Live Writer (Beta)
  11. Samsung Slimfit HDTV Geometry and Power Problems and Service Manual TX-R3079WH
  12. Directory.GetFiles() in Modified Date/Time Order
  13. Using Live Writer Beta on Geekswithblogs.net
  14. Bread Crumbs in ASP.NET 2.0
  15. How to: restore the Windows XP bootloader after dual booting with Windows Vista
  16. Generic ICompositeUserType implementation for NHibernate mapping
  17. When should you use Mocks vs Stubs?
  18. XSD Inference Tool
  19. Money object and NHibernate ICompositeUserType
  20. Selecting a Collection Class
  21. Understanding SQL 2005's new PIVOT clause
  22. Array of DataRecord vs. DataView: A Dramatic Difference in Performance
  23. A Sad Day For Open Source - NDoc is NDone
  24. SQL Server does not allow remote connections::Resolution

July 2006

  1. Using WIA for scanning
  2. DRM! Moving you DRM Protected eBooks to Mobile Devices
  3. Hack your Tungsten-E to improve it's Battery life!
  4. Using Enterprise SSO (Single Sign-On) with the SAP Adapter and in general
  5. Changing to a friendly Team Foundation Server Name
  6. Validating any XML Document within Orchestration
  7. The row value(s) updated or deleted either do not make the row unique or they alter multiple rows.
  8. Iowa Porkbusting Efforts - A Scorecard of Iowa Pork and Congressional Earmarks
  9. Congratulations, Eclipse Aviation!
  10. Using NHibernate with MySQL
  11. Visual Studio 2005 - Documentation Generation Using NDoc 2005
  12. Generate Code-DOMs directly from C# or VB.NET
  13. Model-View-Presenter split into two "new" patterns
  14. IIS Error "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred"
  15. "Enterprise mashup maker"
  16. Exclusive: London Girl Geek Dinner Short Film by Angela Saini of ITN
  17. Now you can read between the lines of obfuscated Javascript
  18. Caveat Emptor - Why you need to wait until Vista ships before purchasing new Notebook
  19. .Net Directory Services Programming - C# - Part 3
  20. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Forms Based Authentication (FBA) - How to remove and use Windows Authenticaion on Internet Presence Web Site template.
  21. Internet Explorer Beta 3 For Windows 2003 Server. Finally!
  22. QTP: Support forums
  23. Unit Testing a Private Method
  24. Generic Function for GridView Sort Images
  25. My StringHelper class
  26. Adding an "On this day" header to your blog.
  27. Weird phone call from 666-666-6666
  28. Using a password protected certificate with HTTPWebRequest
  29. Regular Expression File Renaming Utility
  30. Top 10 reasons to use Windows XP 64bit
  31. Review of King Tut (Tutankhamun) Exhibit in Chicago at the Field Museum- Underwhelming and misadvertised - Where is the death mask?
  32. Geekswithblogs.net
  33. Managed DirectX Tutorial 02: Creating a 2D Sprite
  34. Start experimenting with XAML on your XP machine in under 15 minutes!
  35. Abstract Class vs Interface
  36. Abstract Class vs Interface
  37. Static Variables In ASP.NET - "I Didn't know this" Moment Number 42

June 2006

  1. Socket I/O: Unix, Windows, and .NET
  2. Can't View CHM Files in IE7 - A FIX
  3. Finding calling method using reflection
  4. How Do I Get the Atlas Control Toolkit to Show Up On My Visual Studio.NET 2005 Toolbox?
  5. Get control name in Page_Load event which make the post back
  6. Generic DTO Assembler
  7. Dynamically Calling a Web Service Without Setting Web Reference
  8. How to Deploy an InfoPath 2007 Form Containing Managed Code to a Browser-Enabled WSS v3 Library
  9. Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta on Windows 2003 Server!
  10. Generating XMLA - referencing Objects by name
  11. BizTalk 2004 - sending messages using SMTP
  12. What place does duct tape have at Prom?
  13. Windows PowerShell - Unix comes to Windows
  14. Drawing Custom Borders in Windows Forms,Part Three: Introducing Form Styles
  15. Windows Vista: Kernel Changes - Here boy! Here boy! Fetch!
  16. Disabling buttons on click in ASP.NET
  17. Windows Vista: Kernel Changes
  18. Windows Vista: Kernel Changes - I/O, I/O, It's off to work I go...
  19. Running XMLA Queries the Powershell way
  20. How To: Install the Subversion SVN (HTTP Module/Server/Client) on Windows
  21. Pushing a Geneic List of <T> to View state
  22. Problem storing a Generic list object in Viewstate
  23. Why .NET Tracing is not reliable
  24. Cleaning the lint that collects in your laptop's navel
  25. Importing Permcalc Output into the .NET Framework Configuration Tool (Mscorcfg.msc)
  26. Where did the freaking DotNetNuke Core Module Source Code go!!!???
  27. Uninstall a component during minor upgrade
  28. Go see the brand new tiny Vaio UX50 while at TechEd!
  29. BizTalk 2006 R2
  30. Difference between Mutex and Semaphore
  31. NHibernate Gotchas - Many-to-many duplicate records
  32. DDD3 resources now available on line
  33. this is too cool!
  34. Moleskine Life Hacks

May 2006

  1. Unit Test???
  2. Win32 XP Key Recovery Utility
  3. When you create a MS CRM 3.0 queue and it does not work, don't forget to ...
  4. More Things Great .NET Developers Should Know
  5. Gotcha! Visual Studio Pre/Post-Build Events
  6. Functional Programming with C#/F#
  7. Accessing Outlook items from C# .NET
  8. Word 2007 Beta 2 Blogging and .Text
  9. Invoke vs BeginInvoke
  10. How to convert special characters to HTML encoded equivalents using C#.NET
  11. Kansas City .net User Group - May 2006
  12. Populating the DropDownList inside the FormView Control
  13. Memory Management in Windows
  14. BizTalk: Questions for interview without answers
  15. Make your exceptions shine with SQL Server Exception Message Box
  16. DotNetNuke Premium Modules - Child Portal Vs Parent Portal and Avilable Vs Assigned
  17. Overriding the ToString() function of an enum.
  18. Programmatically set IIS Authentication for a page.
  19. Exclusive GeeksWithBlogs Member Game Design Contest --Winner to get XBOX 360!
  20. C++/CLI and XML Code Documentation
  21. 640 x 480 Projector from your Mobile/PocketPC/PSP? Digislide - one of the elite "global innovators" for 2006?
  22. JavaScript Virtual Keyboard
  23. What to do when SQL error 605 or 823 strikes
  24. Microsoft Exception MessageBox - Nice little gem
  25. Oblivion Guide : How to become and play a vampire
  26. Train to perform at TechEd 2006
  27. Keeping Moore's law alive: This time the ball is in our court
  28. A PowerShell provider for Analysis Management Objects
  29. Windows Explorer and the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
  30. More interesting discoveries inside the HD-A1
  31. BizTalk Server Adapter for Printing
  32. Adding insert capabilities to the gridview
  33. Indian Cartoons :)
  34. Repository, the Foundation of Domain Driven Design
  35. How to lookup a user name and machine name using an IP address (on windows)
  36. Accessing XML Schema Information During Document Validation
  37. Security Trimming in SiteMaps
  38. Cookieless Forms Authentication and Redirection
  39. BigInteger/BigDecimal

April 2006

  1. Google Earth Network Link for Where's Tim
  2. All you wanted to know about Castle ActiveRecord - Part II
  3. The Literary Ambitions of the ASP.NET 2.0 Site Compiler
  4. All you wanted to know about Castle ActiveRecord - Part I
  5. DotNetNuke error reporting requires improvement
  6. Toshiba HD-DVD player runs on Red Hat
  7. Promoting properties in generic documents
  8. Recover your XP product key from the registry using C#
  9. Performance Quiz: Fastest way to format time
  10. Http Post in C#
  11. text-align: center; not working in Firefox
  12. Store your App.Config inside SQL Server 2005
  13. Geekswithblogs.net
  14. Customizing the Dot Net Nuke Search Input
  15. ASP.NET 2.0 - Enter Key - Default Submit Button
  16. Using msbuild to change App.config and Web.config files
  17. Processing an AS2005 cube from the command line with XMLA
  18. Assembly.LoadFrom demystified
  19. SSL certificates and poor implementations
  20. Upgraded Foodmart 2000 sample database for Analysis Services 2005

March 2006

  1. Mobile Monday: Web 2.0 in the mobile Space - Discuss
  2. Team Smells...Refactoring For A Better Tomorrow (Part Two)
  3. Subversion Conversion
  4. ASP.NET tab doest show up in IIS virtual directory property page after install asp.net 2.0 framework
  5. Strongly Typed DynamicMethods
  6. Sorting with an Object Data Source
  7. ASP.NET 2.0 Treeview Checkboxes - Check All - Javascript
  8. ASP.NET Webservices "The test form is only available for requests from the local machine"
  9. Secure Shell SSH Enabled FTP Adapter for BizTalk
  10. Overview of SFTP, FTPS, SCP and FTP
  11. BizTalk Server 2004 Adapter for Printing 2.0 (supports dynamic send port printing)
  12. Access 2003 Package Wizard - a big step BACK.
  13. Choosing Web Services Publishing Model in BizTalk 2006
  14. How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using GIMP
  15. From IDataReader to DataSet
  16. DotnetNuke Changes to Promote User to SuperUser
  17. WinDbg / SOS Cheat Sheet
  18. What is Threat Analysis and Modeling?
  19. Key Value Pairs in Database design
  20. Changing the obj directory in .NET 2.0
  21. FTP and ASP.NET 2.0
  22. An Interesting Podcast
  23. Missing Security Tab in Windows XP
  24. Set defaultProxy configuration Element for Proxy Server
  25. Giving NHibernate a serious performance boost
  26. System.Web.HttpException: Failed to Execute URL
  27. Dynamic Send Port in BizTalk 2004
  28. Of SharePoint Nightmares and Dreams...
  29. Running DotNetNuke as a file-system Web site- Specify a Port
  30. Changing Computer Science Education- It’s coming!
  31. SAN Islands to have or not to have?

February 2006

  1. ListView Flicker
  2. BizTalk 2004: Schema validation: Error in the "error BEC2004"?
  3. Understanding Composite UI Application Block, Part VII
  4. BUG: Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack.
  5. "default collation" for a SQL Server 2000 database
  6. Comparison of AJAX frameworks for ASP.NET (rev. 4)
  7. ASP.NET Webservices: "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Access Denied." Error
  8. best 404 message... ever!
  9. Getting the IE Webcontrols work in ASP.NET 2.0 while using Visual Studio 2005
  10. IIS 6.0 Health Monitoring and ASP.NET Applications
  11. Visual Studio 2005 Error : Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information
  12. What Is the Value of Algebra?
  13. Using Signed Assemblies for SQLCLR: Doing the Safety Dance.
  14. Programatic Configuraton - Enterprise Library (v2.0) Logging Block
  15. Generic DAO with NHibernate
  16. Yahoo Design Pattern Library
  17. This setup required .net framework version 1.1.4322 but you have .Net framework v2.0
  18. DDD3 dates have changed!
  19. ComfortASP.NET WebParts Demo
  20. New transaction cannot enlist in the specified transaction coordinator
  21. Valentines Trouble!
  22. March London Girl Geek Dinner Announced!
  23. ComfortASP.NET V0.47
  24. Raptor
  25. Borland Bails on Dev Tools
  26. Just finished my first of 3 migration to TFS RC
  27. Debatching a flat file in BizTalk 2006
  28. Understanding Composite UI Application Block, Part VI
  29. Error "Unrecognized attribute 'requirePermission'" after publishing Web Site.
  30. Using IMessageFilter class in C#
  31. Achieve BizTalk Server 2004 high availability by clustering SQL Server, Analysis Services and Enterprise Single Sign-On

January 2006

  1. SQL Server 2005 SQLExpress error: ...provider: Named Pipes Provider, error 40 - Could not open connection to SQL Server
  2. System tray application basics for .NET 2.0
  3. Exchange 2003 SP2 Install Fails because of MSXML
  4. Tools every C# developer should know about
  5. Windows Desktop Search – enabled for the enterprise
  6. Convert your Pocket PC into an iPod in seven easy steps
  7. Location of Biztalk BAM Excel add-in
  8. Understanding Composite UI Application Block, Part V
  9. Flex Profile Kit Version 5 has been released by Jeroen - How to get serious with Roaming Profiles!
  10. How to add DotNetNuke localization for a country.
  11. Quick Facts about Visual Studio 2005 - Did you know?
  12. IE and Firefox compatible javascript to enable or disable an anchor tag
  13. Running ASP.NET 2.0 Webparts over Sharepoint Portal Server 2003
  14. A Minute Saved...
  15. Walkthrough: Windows SharePoint Services SP2 in R2
  16. Finding Downloads on the IBM Site
  17. TryParse for Nullable Types
  18. XmlLogger for MSBuild
  19. Understanding Composite UI Application Block, Part IV
  20. 10 Reasons NOT to date a Geek (unless they don't follow this pattern!)
  21. Gettting Column Value Using Checkbox in GridView Autopostback = true
  22. Linear regression
  23. [Download] CSLMail - SMTP/POP3 email component for .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework
  24. Solving GridView Export Paging Problems
  25. Blurry Images in IE on Wide Screen Dell Notebook
  26. Phooey to fun GUIs!!
  27. Visual Studio 2005 Web Site Project- "Edit and Continue" is too restrictive.
  28. Understanding Composite UI Application Block
  29. ASP.NET 2.0 WebService vs WCF Nov CTP Performance Comparison
  30. Understanding Composite UI Application Block, Part II
  31. A momentary lapse of reason: Crazy blog titles
  32. Exporting the Infragistics UltraChart to Excel
  33. Read/Write App.config with .NET 2.0/Enterprise Library
  34. Billy Hollis says goodbye to the floppy disk...
  35. Request.Browser.Crawler

2005 260

December 2005

  1. Using client certificates with ASP.NET
  2. HDR-HC1's CMOS sensor gives hints about its dynamic range through Exposure settings
  3. Props To HP
  4. SCA or Service Component Architecture
  5. Timewasting Courseware
  6. How to force the Mopar A604 transmission into "limp" mode
  7. VS2005 Another Desinger Issue - Winforms not opening
  8. DirectorySearcher.FindAll() -should have PageSize=1000
  9. Rss Parsing
  10. XSD.EXE Warning: cannot create classes...
  11. Attracting females into computer science
  12. Implementation of UUEncoding in C#
  13. Geekswithblogs.net
  14. MSF 4.0 and Microsoft Team Services
  15. Application Level Events (ALE) In A Nutshell
  16. Geekswithblogs.net
  17. VS2005 Designer Issue - WinForms not opening after migrating
  18. Biztalk Server Interview Questions
  19. Primetime Podcast Receiver
  20. A convenient way to deal with "Unexpected Error 0x8ffe2740"
  21. What??? You deleted "Default Web Site" from IIS?!?!
  22. Chain constructors refactoring in C#
  23. Shelving in Subversion
  24. A good url regular expression ?
  25. Arrays: Copy vs. Clone

November 2005

  1. Serializing A String Within a CDATA Element (.NET 1.1)
  2. HOW TO Enable ClickOnce Compression on IIS
  3. How to install Visual Studio 2005 on XP with just SP1
  4. Debugging a .Net Windows Service the "easy way"
  5. "Prison Break" a joke, "24" coming soon!
  6. Hierarchical Queries in SQL Server 2005
  7. "The test form is only available for requests from the local machine"
  8. DNN and the Lovely "Multiple controls with the same ID" Error
  9. Patterns aren't just for software (ExpertsExchange 20051004)
  10. Nautical Terminology: Dead Horse
  11. Introducing the Infragistics UIElementViewer Utility
  12. Fixing Internal SOAP processing failure
  13. "Geek & Greet" Christmas Dinner
  14. Remove NewLine characters from the data in SQL Server
  15. Installing Windows Update client error 0x8007041d
  16. Creating pdf in .NET from html
  17. SQL Server 2000 and 2005 same machine?
  18. Differences between Visual Basic Trim function and String.Trim() method
  19. Missing an item template in Visual Studio 2005? Try this...
  20. ASP.NET DataGrid Template Columns with Image Button - Master Details View - Part II
  21. SharpZipLib, minor tweak to samples allows opening of ZIP files in Windows XP SP2
  22. ASP.NET DataGrid Template Columns with Image Button - Master Details View - Part I
  23. Uninstalling SQL Server 2005 CTP.....fun!
  24. Calling __doPostBack in javascript
  25. VSTF install and Error 28905
  26. How to determine whether a file is a .NET Assembly or not?

October 2005

  1. PHPMyAdmin - Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client
  2. The XPS file format
  3. Random Notes on Halloween
  4. How to validate SA Identity Numbers
  5. Auto-refreshing ASP.NET web pages
  6. Hyperlink Columns in GridView Control
  7. Electric Shocks from my laptop
  8. Support Forms and Windows authentication on the same ASP.NET Application.
  9. Writing a virtual audio driver
  10. asp:BoundField DataFormatString problem
  11. Connection String generation Visual Studio macro
  12. Visual Studio 2005 Reference Types for multiple build configurations and multiple assembly locations
  13. My Developer Day 2
  14. Yahoo Customer Service Sucks
  15. Idiot's Guide to Replacing SourceSafe with SubVersion
  16. DDD Day II Geek Dinner
  17. UK DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! is back on 22 October 2005
  18. Can you create a folder named "con", "prn", "nul" in windows
  19. How to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ?
  20. More on MSI Deployments - Launch Conditions....
  21. Programmatically changing Yahoo Messenger's status
  22. BizTalk Server 2004/2006 and Windows Workflow Foundation
  23. WF: Comparing WF rules and the Microsoft Business Rule Engine
  24. 'System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.' when writing to event log
  25. People hate quicktime
  26. .Net Directory Services Programming - C# - Part 2 - DirectoryEntry Binding and AD Properties
  27. How to View Subscriptions in Biztalk 2006
  28. VB's mojo is back!
  29. VBScript to backup and timestamp an Analysis Services Database

September 2005

  1. C# versus VB.NET
  2. Export Registry in C#
  3. Error E138 with VI Editor - E138: Can't write viminfo file /root/.viminfo!
  4. Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) - Shelving
  5. MetaWeblog and Blogger 1.0 Components Released
  6. Highlights from Today's C# Language Enhancements Chat
  7. footprints in the internet
  8. can anyone tell me why?
  9. Paul Vick Introduces Linq in VB - Just Plain COOL!
  10. Uninstall IE 7
  11. Biztalk is dead !! Long live WWF (No, not the wrestling...)
  12. WebProject References in Whidbey
  13. PDC 2005 Keynote
  14. Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. The project is not configured to be debugged.
  15. First Morning @ PDC
  16. Debug ASP.NET Without IIS in Visual Studio.NET 2003
  17. London Geek Dinner with Robert Scoble 10/12/05
  18. How to be a PM at MS (and how to deal with PMs)
  19. Unable to open Web Project '...'. The file path '...' does not correspond to the URL '...'. The two need to map to the same server location. HTTP Error 403: Access Forbidden
  20. Newsgator Listens!
  21. Unable to connect to registry on the server (machineName), or you are not a member of the OLAP Administrators group on this server
  22. ASP.NET DevConnections, Las Vegas
  23. .NET 2.0 Resources
  24. IBM is reaching out
  25. Ruby/Rake and Python Decorators

August 2005

  1. Windows Authentication with Subversion on Windows
  2. Auditing: The difference between audit account logon event and audit logon event.
  3. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 under Virtual PC
  4. You may receive the error: "The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server." while consuming a Webservice
  5. Adding an insert row to GridView
  6. Mono vs. .NET Performance Test
  7. FTP SSL through a NAT Firewall
  8. New and Changed SQL Server 2005 commands: Part1
  9. LDAP Authentication and Password Management
  10. Optimizing Virtual PC 2004 Hard Disks
  11. iPowerWeb Sucks
  12. Round up from the Girly Geek Dinner
  13. System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
  14. Solution Folders
  15. Why You Should Use Diskpar
  16. Error: MMC cannot open the file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN\SQL Server Enterprise Manager.MSC.
  17. Int32 notation vs. int
  18. Visual Studio 2.0 and Signing with Strong name keys
  19. VMware Virtual Machine Importer - What a great idea!
  20. Creating pdf in .NET without crystal reports

July 2005

  1. Windows Vista Beta 1 - Sound support with VMware v5 build 13124 without VMtools
  2. Top 10 PC Games sold in June 2005
  3. Removing Files and Directories Windows Installer Does Not Install
  4. Portland Code Camp Day 2
  5. Messing with IBM xSeries 336 1U and IBM in general, my experiences so far...
  6. GridView Export to Excel Problems
  7. Let the wars begin! Personalized Google vs. Microsoft prototype project start.com
  8. Biztalk 2006 Beta Now Available
  9. Winsock error 10053: Part 2
  10. Women only Geek dinner Update
  11. Recoverable Interchange Processing in Biztalk 2006
  12. Mike Roberts survived London Bombing
  13. System Administrator Appreciation Day
  14. How to setup IIS, PostToSpaces and Blogjet to post to MSN Spaces
  15. Using Chainsaw Log Viewer with Log4Net
  16. ObjectDataSource: could not find a non-generic method '...'
  17. Envelope Debatching and XPath Debatching Inside an Orchestration Biztalk Lab
  18. Re-re-re-refactoring...
  19. In the beginning....
  20. To Incorporate a .Net User Group?
  21. Drawing Custom Borders in Windows Forms

June 2005

  1. Of names..
  2. RSS and Attention Metadata
  3. Toshiba R15 In The House!
  4. Jon Udell: Collaborative filtering with del.icio.us (and other ideas)
  5. How to Bind Enum Types to the Dropdown or any other bindable Control in ASP.Net .....
  6. RCCEWebPart
  7. BizTalk 2004 Install Problems with Windows 2003 SP1 Pre-Installed
  8. Calling A Receive Pipeline Inside an Orchestration in BizTalk 2006
  9. Great site!
  10. Downtime: Star Wars: A Musical Tribute
  11. Interact with SIP server via TCP
  12. London Geek Dinner Précis
  13. Geek Dinner Round Up
  14. Avalon and XAML
  15. Messaging-Database Aggregator Pattern
  16. Indigo for Television
  17. Looking forward to the London Geek Dinner
  18. Windows Mobile for Mobile Phones?!
  19. Tips for ASP.NET Application Performance Enhancement
  20. What’s new in BizTalk Server 2006 aka Rolling Thunder
  21. Excel and Biztalk

May 2005

  1. Google Print
  2. Mobile Development made easy
  3. Creating Publisher Certificates For ClickOnce
  4. String concatenation the fast way...maybe not what you think
  5. You may receive the error "Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection" - Part I
  6. You may receive the error "Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection" - Part II
  7. cnpack - Free Delphi IDE Enhancement
  8. How to validate a valid GUID Value in C#
  9. Getting, Setting , Deleting and Updating Cookie Data as Collection in ASP.Net
  10. Geekswithblogs.net
  11. How to Remove Visual Source Safe 6.0d from your .net projects.
  12. CodeSmith, Consistency and Elegance
  13. Atlanta Code Camp
  14. Enabling Enter Key on a Text Box to auto click a Button ....
  15. 1st Developer Days UK
  16. May 12th GC.NUG meeting notes
  17. You may receive the error "BC30138: Unable to create temp file in path 'C:\Windows\TEMP\:' Access is denied"
  18. Comparison: UML Tools
  19. WMA, MP3 and my struggle to do the right thing...any ideas?
  20. Beware Virtual PC Differencing Disks!
  21. Problem installing SQL 2005 Express April CTP on non English OS
  22. ZAM 3D - 3D XAML Tool
  23. EnGraph Datebox .NET Control
  24. SQL Server Reporting Services and rsAccessDenied
  25. The name or security ID (SID) of the domain specified is inconsistent with the trust information for that domain
  26. Clustered Enterprise Single Sign-On Deployment
  27. Deploy BizTalk Server 2004 Complete - Stand-Alone Server

April 2005

  1. Funky VB Crutches
  2. Best Practice: Frames Vs MasterPages Vs ICallBackEventHandler Vs DataIslands and the dreaded page refresh
  3. Launching VPN at startup
  4. Changing a VPC Computer Name with BizTalk
  5. Orchestration Mapping and Message Context in BizTalk 2004
  6. You may receive the error "It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level" in asp.net
  7. You may receive the error "Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'WebApplication1.Global'." when browsing an asp.net page
  8. Securing PDFs, DOCs, in Forms Authentication
  9. You may receive the Error Message "Server Error in '/application name' Application" while browsing an asp.net application
  10. DataReader, DataAdapter & DataSet - When to use?
  11. "Page cannot be found" when browsing aspx pages in Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0
  12. Selecting Distinct Values using XPath Expression
  13. Managing Flat Files in BizTalk 2004
  14. Reading binary data from SQL Server and then De-Serializing it
  15. Microsoft Knowledgebase is now RSS-enabled
  16. Installing MSDE with your .NET application
  17. SQL Server & MSDTC Problem in Windows 2003
  18. More on SEHException
  19. Shell integration and Program Installations on 64-bit Windows (XP and 2003 x64 Editions).

March 2005

  1. Stored Procedure Blah Blah
  2. Writing managed code custom actions
  3. Contractor vs. Consultant
  4. TextArea Cursor Position with JavaScript
  5. Exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException was thrown
  6. Image File Execution options key as an Attack Vector on Windows
  7. At Panera, Not using WiFi
  8. ASCII version of Star Wars via Telnet...
  9. Server Control Development Tip #1: Determining Whether to Inherit from Control or WebControl in a Server Control
  10. VB.NET Coding Guidelines
  11. How to Understate an Airbus Accident
  12. ITT: The clocks on the client and server machines are skewed (solved)
  13. HOWTO: Print to a USB Printer from DOS in Windows XP
  14. Developers Petition Microsoft To Continue Support For VB6
  15. WinForms Z-Order
  16. IBF… Are We Seeing the Future of Microsoft SOA Client Architecture?
  17. An ADO.NET Provider for NNTP

February 2005

  1. CLR related reading..
  2. HOWTO: Programmatically Accessing Web Content using Basic Authentication
  3. The Broadcast Flag... and the PAY-PER-SHOW Model
  4. Download CERapi - the managed Windows CE Remote API
  5. Geekswithblogs.net
  6. http://www.itquestionbank.com/
  7. My 2 cents about SOAP Vs. REST
  8. 'Go To' Menu - Sig's Style
  9. Managed CreateProcessWithLogonW
  10. Three Tips for Your First Presentation
  11. Mapping Many Messages to One Inside the Mapper in BizTalk 2004

January 2005

  1. Exception Handling Application Block in Enterprise Library
  2. MDC - Pre-pre-day :-D
  3. Testable Designs (Answering Earl's Questions)
  4. CamlCheck
  5. My Response to Scott Dockendorf's Response to Me in Response to his Article
  6. Hear your Google search results on Speegle
  7. TechEd 2005 Registration is open
  8. word wrap in Console app
  9. Microsoft Interview
  10. Confused about TDD Article in DNDJ
  11. No SharePoint Tabstrips? but then there is the DataView
  12. Home Depot Self-checkout Fails To Impress
  13. BizTalk Server 2004: Direct Binding models in BizTalk
  14. Jobs, they are a-changin'
  15. AntiSpyware Alert
  16. Generics CLS-Compliant in Nov CTP
  17. Is Client-Side Scripting the Next Big Thing?
  18. ToolHelpCE and CETaskManager - Working with processes in Windows CE using .NET Compact Framework
  19. Adobe Reader 7.0 - In a Word - Fast

2004 170

December 2004

  1. DTVisualizer - Image Visualizer for VS 2005
  2. A Non SQL thought - Tsunami
  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls...
  4. Tallow, where art thou
  5. ByVal Behavior With Reference Vs. Value Types (Who Drank My Beer?)
  6. Scoble says "Can't we think creatively?" in competing with the iPod
  7. Geekswithblogs.net
  8. Podcasting hits mainstream media in Netherlands
  9. Applications for the INETA Speaker Bureau are Closed for 2005 Calendar Year
  10. Media Player 10 on Windows 2003
  11. Seattle's BUZZ 100.7 attacks Child's Play
  12. Debatching Options and Performance Considerations in BizTalk 2004
  13. Mapping to an Envelope Schema
  14. Bill Evjen's Learn ASP.NET Page
  15. Dutch computer security awareness campaign - They're out to get you!
  16. ITT: Restoring Outlook Web Access (OWA) (Solved)
  17. Dell Inspiron 8600 Issues
  18. Comparison: Web-based Tracker
  19. Windows Server 2003 as a Workstation OS
  20. ITT: Hung on "applying computer settings" - Exchange System Attendant was the culprit (Solved, kinda)
  21. Microsoft Book Club Webcast - Bill Evjen
  22. Test Driven Development proves useful at Google
  23. Wow, bad timing on MSDN TV

November 2004

  1. Origin of OK
  2. Books for professionals
  3. The BizTalk SQL Server Adapter isolation level
  4. .NET Deep dive (Microsoft Israel Dev Convention) Impressions
  5. SLT ADSL Details
  6. Implementing a Custom Forms Designer in .NET
  7. Comparison: Subversion Web Access Apps
  8. XLANGs.BTEngine.BTXTimerMessages Delivered, Not Consumed in BizTalk 2004
  9. Subversion
  10. How to use a checkbox in a datagrid template column.
  11. Pictures from .NET Franconia User Group Meeting
  12. The Professional Life of a Game Developer?
  13. More on deployment...
  14. Concurrent Receive Convoys (Parallel Convoys) in BizTalk 2004
  15. Code Brew!
  16. Bloggers Guide To BizTalk November Edition

October 2004

  1. BizTalk Server 2004: The ten commandments of pipeline stream processing
  2. Creating Nodes from Flat Data in BizTalk 2004 Maps
  3. Podcasts and my Pocket PC
  4. Dodned Friendly
  5. XPath Inside Orchestrations in BizTalk 2004
  6. XML Namespaces, Prefixes, and elementFormDefault
  7. On Enlistment in BizTalk 2004 the WMI process is using more than the default memory quota of 128MB...
  8. RuleSetTranslationComplexityException - Scenario...
  9. Resources and Data
  10. .NET User Group Franken
  11. Shared Config Files........
  12. MSN Maps and Directions

September 2004

  1. Single Sign On for the Web
  2. A Simple SMTP Server Mock for .NET
  3. Detecting Process Exit From Console Application in C#
  4. BizTalk Server 2004: Receive Pipeline woes
  5. BizTalk Server 2004: Receive pipeline woes
  6. Intercepting the .NET
  7. Das Entwurfsmuster Proxy
  8. Report progress from SQL Server
  9. UTC datetime values in SQL Server 2000
  10. MVP in Action - Unit Test
  11. Welcome to the Hurricane Blog
  12. How DirectX discriminates VB.net developers .... or not ?!?
  13. Windows Embedded Cookbook - Tutorial
  14. Google IM
  15. Montreal Geek Dinner Recap
  16. MCSD.Net Certification Trail
  17. Gotta give myself some Kudos!!!!

August 2004

  1. What's Written vs. What's Meant!
  2. Log4Net is Crap4Crap
  3. Install BizTalk Server 2013 beta on Windows 8 (with Visual Studio 2012, SQL Server 2012 & ESB Toolkit 2.2)
  4. Bug Triage Meeting – Severity & Priority
  5. BizTalk Server 2004: FTP guaranteed delivery
  6. Simple and interesting solution for hidden root kit files
  7. Selection and Use of the ISO 9000:2000 family of standards
  8. Implementing HTTP Handlers in ASP.NET
  9. BizTalk 2004 Delivery Notification and NACK Sample

July 2004

  1. Reporting Services Report Parameters
  2. Node Name and Root Node Type Name
  3. Blogs.INETA.org!
  4. XP Sp2 limiting the number of connection/sec
  5. ASP.NET 2.0: Consuming the Reuters RSS Feeds using the XmlDataSource Control
  6. PasssWord Encryption in SQL 2000
  7. Clippy to be apart of Visual Studio 2005
  8. Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE)
  9. Quick Tip: How to control XML encoding in BizTalk Server 2004
  10. We're Here!!!
  11. ASP.NET 2.0, SharePoint, and IIS

June 2004

  1. Cell Phone Tracking
  2. Step-by-Step into the cloud - Apple Mac OS X
  3. How to remove duplicate rows from a DataTable....
  4. Imagine Cup Brazil 2004
  5. How subscription works - Part1
  6. Writing and testing code for the Space Shuttle.
  7. Data Access Application Block 3.1
  8. ASP.NET Community/Portal Starter Kit vs. DotNetNuke
  9. Tech Support Pricing
  10. Scott Dorman - Code Styles & Standards
  11. New Presentation: Microsoft Services Oriented Architecture
  12. Refactoring in Whidbey for VB.NET
  13. Outsourcing Trust And The Failure of PKIs
  14. DevEssentials is over, good show
  15. Application.Exit vs. Environment.Exit
  16. forget Gmail, now there is 2 GB email service
  17. Scott Kuhl - SubSonic

May 2004

  1. HTTP GET Idempotence and ASP.NET
  2. Nautical Terminology: Three Sheets to the Wind
  3. New INETA Program -- Industry-Academic Alliance
  4. Introduction to ASP.NET HTTP Modules and Handlers
  5. .NET DateTime and Timezone: It Seems Simple, but It's Not
  6. Web-Based SQL Server Enterprise Manager
  7. What you need to pack for TechEd 2004
  8. Two approaches to check functions parameters
  9. Atom vs. RSS
  10. InfoPath: Passing Command Line parameters to a new form
  11. Ymmn, now Masala Chocolate
  12. Calling All Superheroes!
  13. Wrox's Professional C# 3rd Edition Coming Out at TechEd!
  14. Abhishek Kant says Blogging is not his cup of tea
  15. How messages work in BizTalk Server 2004 Orchestrations
  16. George Clingerman - GWB Game Design Challenge
  17. C#: Properties versus getter methods

April 2004

  1. Brazil here we come
  2. Difference between Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Testing?
  3. BTS 2004 Tip of the day
  4. Internet service on the airplane getting closer and closer
  5. Transaction in BizTalk Server 2004 Orchestrations
  6. Transactions in BizTalk Server 2004 Orchestrations
  7. Nautical Terminology: The Devil to Pay
  8. Going In!
  9. Nautical Folklore: Superstition of Friday
  10. Unable to start debugging on the server....
  11. Comparing XLANG/s and C#
  12. Get the full package and not just free 1 GB email space
  13. Nautical Terminology: Mind Your P's and Q's

March 2004

  1. Glass is Half full or Glass is Half Empty!!!!
  2. Whidbey + Command Line = Good
  3. NEWS: Stephen Walther Named a Software Legend
  4. Unload the problamatic profiles
  5. Microsoft Gives New Presentation on Prog. Languages to User Groups
  6. 30.96647% - Total Geek
  7. Bill Gates proposes us to buy stamps to send email
  8. Table Data Gateway vs. Data Access Object
  9. My Experiences on day 1 of VNR VJIET ....
  10. Sharepoint Modify Page Button

February 2004

  1. Ants
  2. XML version 2.0
  3. Calling all volunteers!
  4. Final sample finished, well maybe not final :D
  5. Visual Studio Styler - Ready for Download
  6. WebPart versioning
  7. HAPPY BIRTHDAY INETA!
  8. What happened to associative learning?
  9. Apologies to Secret Geek a.k.a Leon Bambrick
  10. GOTCHA: Com Interop
  11. Connection String C# - VB.NET
  12. Implementing the Front Controller Pattern (1.0)

January 2004

  1. Open Source UML Tools
  2. Open letter to Scott McNealy
  3. Look what I found
  4. Sams Sponsoring Connections
  5. .NET Hobbyist Programmer - Hurricane
  6. Service Oriented Data Access or SODA
  7. MVPed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  8. New Interviews
  9. Serve InfoPath Documents Dynamically
  10. InfoPath Custom Task Pane
  11. Log Parser v2.1
  12. Dottext.Web.HttpCompression is ready, download here
  13. Black and White M&Ms?

2003 10

December 2003

  1. Getting mugged is no fun

October 2003

  1. Disposable email, for a single usage
  2. Manual or Automated?
  3. Reviews, Inspections, and Walkthroughs
  4. Learn how to write a Regular Expression:
  5. Henk Devos - Politics
  6. Extending RichTextBox - Part II
  7. Extending RichTextBox - Part III
  8. Extending RichTextBox
  9. .net Dll Hell?

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