I was reading an old post that Chuck Jazdzewski wrote. This one is really good, it is not applicable only for new programmers, if you are a seasoned programmer, this article is still a good read. Jump to Chuck’s fatherly advice for new programmers .

One day, I was presented with a problem, that the finalizer was not called during application pool recycle. I was busy, so I did not have chance to respond. Later on, I checked the code, it was modified to inherit from CriticalFinalizerObject class, and...

I am playing around with WCF, and I got that error message above. Searching did not really help in defining what was going on. And yes, it was working on my previous test environment. :) Luckily, I still had one of my test method, which just ping the...

I found a good article about replacing ASMX web wervice with WCF web service here ( ASMX to WCF migration ). Very cool, and my client application do not need to be recompiled. Just one thing that I notice, I believe on step 3, instead of XmlSerializerAttribute...

In my previous post , I explained how you can find out the error description for the error id that is returned by SSIS. Of course, that information is only half helpful, debugging the issue also involve knowing which column caused that error. The Error...

Yes, I work at Microsoft, but I was surprised with what live services can do. I found out about live search video ( http://www.live.com/video ). You type the keywords, and it searches videos that are relevant to your query, it shows the thumbnail preview...

I like Flip3D, but I rarely use it, as I am accustomed switching between applications by pressing alt-tab. Using mouse to click that 'switch between Windows' is too slow. Did you know that you can activate Flip3D by pressing the Win key + tab? Switch...