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The “1-2-3 Click !!!” test …

Monday, November 28th, 2005

These past couple of weeks have been really hectic at work. We’ve been working 60-hour weeks, chasing after new features that we needed … yesterday (sic), bug fixes etc, etc.
Well, anyway, the point is that we started looking at the peformance of our application here, and delved a little deeper on concurrency and load […]

Internet Explorer Toolbars how-to

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Have you ever tried to create an IE Toolbar? Recently, my friends at www.globalscore.com asked how difficult it would be to create an IE Toolbar with a live scores ticker.
Well, at first I thought “oh shit, I bet I’ll have to play with the Shell Extentions again, possibly with VB (bliah), or even worse […]

DataUtils Sample Project

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Well, someone suggested that a sample little project would be much better than just the DataUtils Dll’s & a couple of sample xml files, so I’ve made a quick sample to get you started.
You can find the project here.
Note: You must create a DSN called “DataUtilsSample” that uses the Access DB file included […]

XmlSerialization in .NET part 3 (arrays & lists)

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Well, it’s been a while, but here we are again, in our third episode of our adventures in Xml Serialization in .NET.
Today, I’m gonna be dealing with how to serialize nested object trees, in arrays & lists. I’m gonna be using the last example, where we deserialized / serialized a class of type […]

ASP.NET 2.0 Seminar Day 3

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Weyhey !!! .. what a day ! Since today, I’m an official, Microsoft Certified … attendee !
Seriously now, this has been perhaps the most interesting day in this 3-day seminar. We got a closer look at Web Parts, talked briefly about a few changes in the ASp.NET Cache, and took a closer look […]