A British Geek in Texas Pontificates

Increasing my Productivity With Virtual Server R2 on Windows XP

I learned recently that not only was Virtual Server now free, but that it worked on Windows XP. Given that so many people now have access to this technology, it;'s the latest and greatest in terms of Microsoft Virtualization, and that I make such heavy Read More...

Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 4:26 PM by adamhems | 3 Comments

ASP.NET: Exporting a report to Excel, with HTTP Compression

I often find myself asked to code a page to display data from a database in a format users of a ASP.NET web site can view in Excel. This is not a hard thing to do and I thought I'd explain how to do it here, with a couple of enhancements: Offer the option Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:38 PM by adamhems | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): ReportExampleWithCompression.zip

How to determine if a .NET Assembly was compiled in Debug Mode

A colleague asked this question in an email and as often happens I didn't know the answer. However Mark Rees did, and as I couldn't find the answer on the web just thought I would post it here as I thought it was rather a gem: The best way to do this Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:09 PM by adamhems | 1 Comments