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Tue, Nov 15 2011 16:59

Creating an IE plug-in

I was recently approached by a customer about an intriguing project, unfortunately I can’t tell you too much about it since I’m under an NDA, but it involved creating an add-in for Internet Explorer and a custom Windows Service which would act as the...
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Fri, Aug 6 2010 16:45

When OOP stinks and when you instead should leave a smell behind…

I just saw an interesting video blog post by the CTO of Devexpress entitled Pac-Man and Object-Oriented Programming , in which Julian talks about how we’ve been doing object-oriented programming for 20 years now (or even more than that if you come...
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Wed, Aug 4 2010 17:04

Microsoft is switching the light but will it turn on or off?

During the VSLive! keynote in Redmond, Microsoft yesterday announced a new Visual Studio product called LightSwitch . LightSwitch is a new SKU for Visual Studio that will allow people to create line of business (LOB) applications for the desktop and the...
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Wed, Sep 16 2009 17:55

At your service (part II) – ASMX Web Service vs WCF

Introduction Last time I demonstrated how to develop a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. This time we’re going to look at the differences between a ASP.Net WebService and a WCF service. The biggest difference between them is probably...
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Mon, Aug 31 2009 7:18

GetType and TypeOf confusion

Both VB and C# have an operator called TypeOf (or typeof in C#) but they perform two completely different things. In VB there are also two kind of GetType () calls, the object .GetType() method which is part of the .Net framework and the VB language specific...
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Mon, Aug 31 2009 3:41

Boxing and Unboxing in .Net

In this article I will try to explain the concepts of Boxing and Unboxing. There are two types of objects within the .Net framework, value types and reference types . Value types are stored on the stack while reference types are always stored on the heap...
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