<>A lot of people are all up in arms over the fact that Microsoft (via Paul Vick and Amanda Silver) patenting something such as the IsNot operator. First, let me say congratulations to them…...
…in other words, which is easier to maintain? chunk = chunk.PadRight(4, " "c).ToLower – Or – chunk = LCase(Left(chunk &amp; Space(4), 4)) I’m converting (or rather resurrecting) some code...
I’m working on some file i/o stuff today and pretty much using FileStream.Read using a Byte array as the buffer. However, there was one portion where I just need to seek and look at one Byte. So, t...
Scott Hanselman wanted me to pass this special promotion offer he scored for us… Got a spare laptop that your not really doing much with just lying around begging to be used for some purpose? How a...
In a recent post, I show an easy way to convert between String and Char arrays. Someone responded with a comment that stated: It actually doesn’t convert, but creates new string object containing ...
Someone asked me if I knew how to convert values between String and Char arrays… I remember needing to do that in the past and just gave up choosing to use Byte arrays instead (which for that purpo...
…when you sit down at your computer around 10pm to work for a little while and the next thing you know your wife comes in around 6am to tell you to go to bed ;-)
I’ve just completed my round one work on XboxFriends.com moving to ASP.NET and bridging the gap between the WinForms world and the WebForms world. I’ve still got a lot of TODO:` items, but at least...
A friend of mine needed a way to store some values in a configuration file that is somewhat sensitive (coming from a web service using WSE2 with encryption). I thought about using DP-API, however, ...
Like every other developer out there that has taken the plunge into Windows XP Media Center Edition, I downloaded the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 a couple of days ago and applied the 2004 ...