One of the task that a developer needs to accomplish is to code a module for logging, and creating it from scratch will take some of your precious time. So to be a little more productive, we can use a tested library like Log4Net. I have browsed for some pages and found a lot of variations. So putting...

I have been learning a lot lately from the .NET community. Being active in the community surely pays off nicely. So to go straight into the subject matter, why are websites better for business solutions than windows forms, WPF, and/or other client platforms. This blog or article has been written from...

I usually code my own authentication module in my Windows Application but since i have been playing with Web Applications lately, I thought, maybe there's a way to use the Membership API inside System.Web on my Windows Applications. So after playing and Googling around i have made it worked. Below...

I have been using log4net for a year and a half now and there are scenarios where I'm expecting it to log some data only to find out that it's not logging. I know two possible reasons of log4net not logging: 1. It is not yet configured to log. I am configuring log4net through the XML configuration...

I was very busy the past weeks, I cannot imagine I could make it not to code for several days, been a carpenter, janitor, messenger and everything hehe. But I'm here again now. Let me start this out with this stupid sample I just given to one of my junior developer. BackgroundWorker is a special...

Its been weeks since my last post since I've been very busy here with some projects. I tried using VB.Net on one of my project since my Project Manager told me so because there are a few C# guys in here. I used the My.Settings feature and found out that its not getting the values from the Config file...

I have encoutered this very strange error when Im trying to modify one of my user controls on a winddows forms module. It's the first happened to me so I assume I can fix this just by cleaning up the bin folder, update references, reload or restart the project. To no avail, I have googled around and...

Lately, I was wondering why the Autosize property of label on windows forms is set to true, this is annoying and tiring if you love using windows forms designer(yucks! kidding ), because you often want a properly aligned controls and fixed with labels on data entry textboxes.But not until i want to loicalize...

I was playing with user controls this week end and I noticed that the Constructor of my control is called everytime I try to drag one of my user controls into my form. So i tried googling around to find if there's a way to by pass some codes on the constructor and I found this System.ComponentModel.UsageMode...

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...