Kirk Evans Blog

Learn to specify the HTML string for a Windows Forms Web Browser control....

For the complete thread that led to this post, see the entire thread in the XML forum on ASP.NET. I have played around with the Page.ParseControls method to add dynamically created controls to the page processing model before, but only...

Use the HasMethod checkbox to mark a method Abstract in Visio for Enterprise Architects' UML Sequence Diagrams....

I was disappointed with this title, and posted a full review on www.asp.net . I am elated that the writing and editing was far superior to the book described in my Chapter One diatribe , yet the content of this Wrox book did not seem to match the title...

When answering posts on XML in the microsoft.public* newsgroups, I see a lot of questions on using XML without a file. I typically give an answer related to using the System.IO.MemoryStream and setting its .Position property to 0 to "rewind" the stream...

"Microsoft is having released .NET to developrs [sic]." (The [sic] here indicates an intentional misspelling). A manila folder stuffed with roughly 300 pages of 8 1/2 x 11 paper printed single-side containing the manuscript for this book arrived at...

This snippet incorporates part of a post from microsoft.public.dotnet.framework . It shows how to allow multiple threads to write to the same file at once, using a mutex to provide concurrency. This example is integrated with the Exception...

Joel.net's copyright notice has an interesting link on copyright definitions. It's nice to know that some people still understand the meaning of intellectual property. Today, I read an article on an ASP.NET site (links withheld to protect the guilty...

Ran into an odd problem, spurred by a post on both ASP.NET and GotDotNet.com , where the poster was having problems with validating an XHTML document. I created a test page to validate a document with the same contents, and received the same error. Consider...

I have been having problems with some of my woodworking projects recently. I was beginning to think I was just getting sloppy with measurements: mitre joints just not quite lining up properly, trim pieces being just a tad short. I was beginning to question...

Learn how to use the System.IO.StringReader class to load the XSLT source for a transformation....

Find out the shortcut keys for Visual Studio .NET....

A notorious e-mail scam has resulted in the murder of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic. Fifty-year-old Michael Lekara Wayid, Nigeria's consul in the Czech Republic, was shot dead by an unidentified 72-year-old Czech at the Nigerian Embassy...

I notice on many other blogs, the poster tends to include link categories such as "blogs I read". How can you constrain yourself to a fixed list? Part of the interest, for me at least, is following the meanderings to see where they lead to next. I...

Doug Purdy inspired the crowd just to test (if there were such a possible setting) what would happen if you do this here in an application which uses XmlSerializer. Very cool! If you do not want to try it out by yourself then I would recommend to download...

The ThreeDegrees Beta is now online. http://www.threedegrees.com/