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This is an update to my zip library and utility. You can read previous entries on this here . [Update 30 October 2007]: I moved this library to a CodePlex project. See www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip It has been steadily improved since the time of this...

What are the interop options for connecting .NET applications to IBM's registry product, the IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository ? I just saw a piece by Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group , saying that IBM has taken a risk by releasing...

Want to learn about Open XML from the source? There's an opportunity coming up March 13-15 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. It's called the Open XML Deep Dive developer workshop . If you’re adopting Open XML, and need deep technical training...

Someone asked me about this and I wasn't sure. So I looked around and didn't see a definitive answer. I asked the VB Team and got it. VB.NET does not have language support for iterators. There's nothing in VB.NET like the yield return or yield break stuff...

The MQ Engineers at IBM’s Hursley Lab (near Winchester, England) now have a blog . (By the way, the Hursley campus is just gorgeous .) The blog is pretty new, started only last month, as far as I can tell, but it is already chock-full of interesting...

I did not know about this. With WebSphere MQ v6, IBM introduced something called the " .NET Monitor " feature. The .NET Monitor, in MQ, is similar to a WebSphere MQ "trigger monitor." The doc says, developers can create .NET components and register...

Today, someone asked on an internal mailing list, what does LINQ offer, than I cannot do with DataSet.Select()? Luca Bolognese, my compadre from the old country, provided a clear and insightful response. Just for some background - LINQ is a codename...

I upgraded my work machine, back in October. My old standby IBM Thinkpad T30, after years of loyal service, was starting to fall apart. Random pieces were coming loose from the case and the keyboard was no longer delivering "Five 9's reliability". Sometimes...

While trying to build a task-manager type tool, I noticed that the idle task on my machine sometime consumed over 100% of the CPU! 160%, even 180%. What's going on? I asked the base-class framework team and they've clued me in: Process and Processor...