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...

I am currently working with conversion of ASP Classic web application to ASP.Net 2.0 and I have to deal with a lot of client-side script. Before, I used to insert an alert( sampleValue ) to be able to view the current value of a variable until I found out that about “debugger” keyword in JavaScript....

Here are some tips on using Lutz Roeder's Reflector that some of you might not yet know. Enclose search parameters with quotes for exact match. Use AssemblyList for sets of assemblies (I currently have .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, CSLA 1.1, CSLA 2.0, NHibernate, NUnit, MbUnit, Infragistics) Analyzer rocks! I...

I used to use this ConstrolInspector utility from CodeProject utility to know the sequences of events for a control back when i was still a component developer. OT: An ex-officemate of mine, still with my previous employer asked me about this utility through mobile phone. I wondered why she did not email...

My current project uses a double data type for its values and i have raised a suggestion to convert it to decimal data type instead. I remember that it is recommended to use decimal over double for financial applications because decimal data types have greater significant digits compared to floating...

i noticed yesterday that my double quote key is switched with the @ key in visual studio. i tried it in notepad and it seems to be working. i'm glad i found a helpful post in the msdn forums this morning on how to fix this and it turns out that i have two language settings installed, US and UK, i...

we've all seen why some of the keywords back in the DOS days (CON, COM1, COM2, etc.) are not allowed as filenames or folder names (directory names for the oldies hehehe) in the local community thread . do you also know that you can't have the same name for a subfolder or a file in the same folder? logical...

the development machine of my teammate is pretty messed up so i assumed that the hooking up of visual studio ide events on his machine is not working. one of the features i love with visual studio is when it automatically highlights the currently active code sheet in the solution explorer and this feature...

i haven't really abused the power of resharper and since i have been currently shifting most of my mouse activities with keyboard shortcuts, easy navigation on a particular code sheet is a requirement. i finally am using goto next/previous keyboard shortcuts of resharper to browse to the next method...

Strings are reference types and as such, they can have the value null . If you have a method which accepts a string as its parameter, would you check the parameter for null or empty string and throw an ArgumentException instance if you expect a valid string instance to be passed into it? If it's not...