AppDev: Something You Should Know by Irena Kennedy

After installing Adobe Acrobat, I, like many others, started getting “A program is trying to access your Address Book…” message every time I created a new mail item. Luckily, many people prior to me have come across same issue and provided recommendations...

If you need to write a large number of data items (e.g. records with many fields) to a stream, do you think it’s faster to use multiple stream.Write statements or “batch it” via string.Format and use one stream.Write statement per record? My tests...

If you’re concerned about unauthorized users looking at the business logic implemented in SQL stored procs (e.g. deploying database to client computers or using a shared SQL server), this blog is for you. SQL Server can encrypt the following components...

ProfileModule class is a new class available for ASP.NET 2.0 developers to create and manage user specific settings (profile). ProfileModule is an ASP.NET HttpRuntime Module (i.e. class that implements IHttpModule interface). As such, it will be called...

Except for ThreadAbortException and AppDomainUnloadedException exceptions, all other unhandled exceptions in .NET 2.0 lead to process termination. Note : this was not the case in earlier version of .NET – e.g. unhandled exceptions that happen on a thread...

This is one of those examples when not being able to see the publication timestamp can lead you to make false conclusions... So, “trust but verify”… Say, you want to secure your application and disallow users from opening network files (or think...

As many of you may know, SQL Server 2005 provides a way to update statistics asynchronous ly. To my surprise, searching for “ AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC pros cons” on www.live.com and www.google.com resulted in “ We could not find any results…” message...

If you’re writing an application that displays sensitive data (i.e. must be very secure), or you’re working on an application run by multiple users sharing a windows login (yes, it still happens), you may want to implement a “Session Expiration” concept...

ClickOnce installed apps are hidden deep under \Document and Settings\UserName\ \Local Settings\Application Data\CompanyName\ApplicationName_StrongName\ApplicationVersion\... If you want to remove a ClickOnce application, you should use Add/Remove...

Both compare objects of types T… So, which should your objects implement? IComparable<T> specifies ordering, e.g. less than, equals, greater than. String class implements IComparable<T> interface with its int CompareTo(T objectToCompare...

One of the less known features in .NET is conditional methods, which allow developers to create methods whose calls are included or excluded during compilations based on a preprocessing symbol. Say, you want to execute a certain method only under...

Those of you who have developed smart client applications using Composite User Interface Application Block ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/cab.asp ) will likely agree that the biggest downside to CAB...

If you’re familiar with Enterprise Templates in earlier versions of Visual Studio, GAX may sound familiar… GAX stands for Guidance Automation Extensions in Visual Studio 2005. GAX toolkit allows architects and developers to create frameworks, components...

There is plethora of articles describing how cool is the class diagramming functionality, available in most (Standard and up) editions of Visual Studio 2005. “The Visual Studio Class Designer lets you visualize the structure of classes and other types...

When you need to submit multiple values to a SQL stored procedure to execution queries like this – return xyz info for all products that match these product ids, many of us would use a delimited string, shred it using a custom function, insert the values...

There are several ways to yield processing time. One common method used is to call Application.DoEvents(); This method processes all Windows messages currently in the message queue. Another frequently used method is to invoke Thread.Sleep(milliseconds...

There are times when SQL Server may be so busy processing requests that it can no longer allocate memory or processor resources to even allow an administrator to connect. This was a big issue with SQL Server 2000 but SQL Server 2005 solves this problem...

The other day I needed to display an RTF text stored in a database in a SQL Reporting Services report… After doing some research, the team came to a conclusion that there is no easy way to do that, especially given the time we had left on the project...

In the “old days”, if you wanted to expose a way for users of a custom collection class to enumerate through the elements of the collection, you had to implement a custom enumerator (e.g. foreach (Car car in cars) { … } ) In .NET 2.0 (C#), there...