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In case you haven't heard, Microsoft has formally announced plans to provide a service pack (SP1) for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 by the end of the year. There is a long list of items that will be included, but the most notable one to...
Between work and stuff going on in my personal life, there hasn't been a lot of spare time for blogging and developer community things over the last few weeks. Hopefully, that will be changing in the near future. In the meantime, I wanted to squeeze...
In .NET 3.0, WCF did not have any built-in support for syndication feeds, such as RSS and ATOM. As a result, it was necessary to roll your own solution anytime you wanted to render a syndication feed from your service. While this wasn't an incredibly...
ITAC Solutions has organized an upcoming lunch and learn event. The topic will be "The Future of .NET Development", and I have been asked to deliver the presentation. This will be a bit different from my typical in-depth technical sessions....
I have been trying to avoid reposting content that is already circulating the blogosphere, but this is a particularly useful announcement that is deserving of maximum exposure. Late last night, Lutz Roeder released the latest version of Reflector . He...
I meant to blog a reminder about the event last week, but I am a little late now. Today was the local launch event for .NET Framework 3.0. Unfortunately, I missed it. It has been one of those weeks where there literally just aren't enough hours in each...
Last week, I made a brief post about easily using some of the cryptographic hash algorithms available in the .NET Framework for the purpose of generating a file checksum. After giving it some thought, I decided to do a follow-up post and compare the general...
It seems there are a number of people out there who attempt to write their own checksum algorithms for validating the integrity of a file. However, these type of algorithms need to be incredibly reliable. Unfortunately, the "home-grown" version is often...
It is pratically old news at this point, but the RTM version of .NET Framework 3.0 (WinFX) has been released for download. I took the plunge and installed the runtime on my VPS that is used to host this site. This will finally allow me to start hosting...
I recently took a closer look to compare the performance variations among some of the possible ways to interact with a SqlDataReader object (ordinal position, column name, etc). Before you start telling me that I wasn't thorough, I never intended...
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