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SqlDependency aka Query Notification

From a question the other day I dug up an example I whipped up for a class back in Swindon, England. A BizTalk class of all things. The question: Is there an alternative to polling databases for changes to keep a user interface up to date? Yes: Query

Delegates & Events

The topic of Delegates and Events came up on Thursday and I made up an example on the spot which I thought rather appropriate and fun besides. We started with "What is a Delegate" by declaring a delegate and invoking a method through it. The Array.FindAll
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Language Wars Won & Lost & ...

Pooya mentioned some choices in terms of programming languages thanks to the Software+Services approach, and then I ran across the Lang.NET Symposium . Great content to further that discussion, especially when considering a language not for the sake of

What's New in .NET 3.5

Someone asked me something like this during our road show but never emailed me their exact question, so here's a link to What's new in .NET 3.5 . Look at the table of content on the left and you can get the same list of entries for 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1.
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NTFS Sparse Files with C#

Sparse files in NTFS has been a pet interest for a while now, but I just never had the combination of time and patience to deal with DeviceIoControl and get a C# wrapper in place. Well, with our offices closed over Eid here in Dubai I had the time and,
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