A project our team (in my employer) has been working on for a good number of months now makes extensive use of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is nothing really ground-breaking; its significance is that it unifies the various inter-process communication facilities into one common programming...

After using progressive browsers such as Firefox and Safari in my previous employers, imagine my dismay when I realised we were stuck with IE6. One of the things I missed as I had to step back and bear with old IE6 is the absence of the search bar. We're not allowed to upgrade to IE7 nor download...

Hi "Sexy Boy", LOL. I have a guess that C# is case sensitive, why not try; "Write L ine" Ex: System.Console.Write L ine(); Hope it works. :D EDIT: Waaahhhhh! I did not see that Keith has the better answer... oh well. :)

Hi! I'm not actually a VB programmer, but I looked at your questions and just had a couple of ideas on how I would do it. Remember, these are only suggestions. :D 2. Must contain 3 numeric characters You could test each character, then increment a counter if it encounters a number. After all the...

I've gotten this question 3 times in different flavors since last week and I've decided that it's time to post the solution in my blog. I've added comments on the code to explain what every line is doing. The code below will demonstrate how you can read the assembly information in both...

we have a number of batch scripts at work which executes sql-related tasks for each of our project releases. last time, i incorporated errorlevel checks so we know if there was a problem with the execution and in order to abort the rest of the operations if something else has gone wrong. i was surprised...

i purchased my very first pocket pc last week and i have'nt really used it extensively. except for calendar and the gps software bundled which has been very useful travelling in this new country. i'm thinking of installing an rss reader so i can now catch up with my blog feeds during my two hour...

i've been told by one of my officemates that the windows xp search containing text does not work with all file types. of course mr. skeptical always verify it and was surprised that indeed it does not work for all file types, even with C# cs files! just sharing!

we have a document that keeps on repaginating eveytime i open it in winword. i found a post in usenet that you just have to save it as a webpage (html) then resave it as word document and it did solve the problem. just sharing!

for years i thought deltree (deletes a folder and all the files in it) was removed from the DOS days. before it was not included in the default command set but available as a separated executable. i just stumbled in one of our post build events which does the same with the remove directory command with...