Hi, After I updated one of my machines to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 I started getting build error when executing builds from the VS UI. When I was doing the build using msbuild from the command line everything worked fine. We struggle a bit to understand...

Hi, here I am again fighting some signed\unsigned assembly issues. This time everything is related to the fact that we are writing a class that needs to be accessed by partners through the public methods but it needs to give some special privileges to...

Hi, it has been a long time since my last post here and that's not because I didn't bump into difficult problems that I wasn't able to solve, but rather due to me being too lazy to write. So I decided to fix this. Also, the issue that I've found took...

Here's another of the nice stories when I try to make somthing work and it's just really hard to find any documentation about it. So I have this installer (a .wxs file) which had some hacky way to install certificates (executing custom actions and...

Hi, Once again I got angry on my poor computer because it didn't want to play nice. I was trying to create a scheduled task to robocopy some files every day to a certain shared folder. But when I started the Task Scheduler ( taskschd.msc /s ) I...

Hi, I was working on this project where I needed to get some HTTP requests intercepted by Fiddler. Everything worked nice and dandy until some of the requests needed to be done over HTTPS. Fiddler knows to decrypt those by having a fake SSL cert. ...

Some days ago I had to format this huge file to remove everything between a "start" marking and an "end" marking and to do some other nifty things while doing the removing (reformat, copy some of the text, move it somewhere Else and such). So a simple...

Here's a thing that haunted me the last few days: I have this 64bit Windows Server 2K8 machine which I'm trying to convince to run 32bit code under IIS7. In the same time I have a 64bit Windows Server 2K3 on which I'm trying to do the same. After...

Thanks to the comment, Peter I've added additional code that will make it avoid possible race conditions Mainly I test for null, lock the code and test for null again to make sure that no change in the state was done during the locking process Here...

Here is a list of the new Windows Live services released : Windows Live Expo - Buy, sell and communicate with the people you trust Windows Live OneCare - All-in-one PC care, automatic and easy to use Windows Live Custom Domains - Free e-mail for your...

This time is about persitent cookies. First... how to find where are the cookies located from C#: Directory .GetFiles( Environment .GetFolderPath( Environment . SpecialFolder .Cookies ) Now you have a list with all the persistent cookie on your hard drive...

Perhaps lots of people bumped thier heads in walls while trying to work with cookies (client side). I know that server side there are a lot of nice classes but what do we do with the poor people writing JavaScript or C# client side? So here are...

Hi, Coming with links again :) Here's some tools that I found very useful if you like creting gadgets or any AJAX based pages. They're also helpful for DHTML. Anything that changes content on the fly client-side and the View Source doesn't show...