IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski

Wikis are only as good as the contributors, but the new MSDN wiki is already shaping up to be quite good. There isn't any of the .NET 3.0 docs up there yet, but if you going online to get information about .NET 2.0, I'd go here so that you get both the Read More...

I recently wanted to pass a preprocessor directive (as in affecting /define in csc.exe) to MSBUILD on the commandline instead of using #DEFINE/#UNDEF in the source code or modifying the configuration properties in VS. (After all, isn't that the idea of Read More...

Okay, I'm late to the party on this one, but I just came across the RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit in both the Visual Studio Express SKUs and VS2005. Basically, when opening a new project, there is a "Starter Kit" node inside of which is a "Screen Saver" Read More...

A few people pointed out that my sample for uploading a bunch of images to an FTP site using Whidbey broke with Whidbey Beta 2, so I fixed it. Basically, there were some semantic changes: --the FtpMethods enumeration moved to WebRequestMethods.Ftp.* --the Read More...

I recently needed to upload a bunch of images via FTP. This gave me a perfect reason to write some code using the new FTP classes in Whidbey. Very nice, I must say. Below is the source code for anyone needing to grab a directory and dump a bunch of files Read More...