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Server-side Automation of MS Office Applications
I usually don't talk too much about or discuss things that are commonly known to everyone. Why add noise unnecessarily when something has already been discussed overwhelmingly by the internet community and all it takes is an internet search to find...
Posted: Mar 22 2009, 05:35 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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XML Utility Method in .NET BCL
XML has a set of special characters that cannot appear in element/attribute names and values: &, <, >, " and '. For example, <entityText>Mark & Spencer's</entityText> is not valid. The valid equivalent is <companyName>Mark...
Posted: Aug 06 2008, 04:23 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.0 - Here Comes!
The latest version of Microsoft Enterprise Library, v4.0, is finally here for download ! The most important additions in this release for me are VS 2008 support and integration of Unity dependency injection container (Unity Application Block). Go grab...
.NET Training Kits - Free Download
Couple of training kits available for download from Microsoft: .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit
Posted: Apr 22 2008, 08:12 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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.NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster
Came across this recently: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7b645f3a-6d22-4548-a0d8-c2a27e1917f8&displaylang=en&tm Available in both XPS and PDF forms, each with one large size and split/tiled format.
Posted: Mar 14 2008, 12:49 PM by Siva M | with no comments
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Sending Emails with Delivery Receipt Notification
Of late, I was getting few queries on how to get email delivery notification and email read notifications when sending emails programmatically using the .NET Framework classes ( System.Net.Mail ). Getting email read notification option is done by adding...
Posted: Mar 14 2008, 06:33 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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Enumerating Computers in a Domain
I saw a question in a forum asking how to enumerate computers available in a domain. Though it might seem little difficult, it can be accomplished in less than 10 line of code. Thought would make it as a post for everyone's benefit. Here we go: using...
Posted: Jan 25 2008, 12:43 AM by Siva M | with 1 comment(s)
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.NET Framework Source Code for Debugging Support
As announced earlier by Scott Gu , the source code for most of the namespaces in the .NET framework is available . This means that you can now step into the framework source code while debugging your applications and see its actual implementation. I had...
Posted: Jan 18 2008, 03:28 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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Visual Studio 2008 Beta-2 Out
Get the VS 2008 Team Suite beta-2 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428c076f-e3ef-4290-9ff4-f6fd8f180b7d&DisplayLang=en
Posted: Jul 27 2007, 01:31 PM by Siva M | with no comments
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Getting the IP Address of the DNS Server(s)
Yesterday, I came across a question in one of the .NET newsgroups asking how to get the IP address of the DNS servers available in the network. Though there is no direct way of getting this information (yet, at least to my knowledge) via .NET 2.0 class...
Posted: Jun 18 2007, 05:39 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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Storing Application-wide Data in WPF
It is very common in Windows applications to store application-wide data such as database connection strings, application title and folder path,etc that should be available for the duration of the application instance. The general strategy for storing...
Posted: May 11 2007, 12:29 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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Changing Log On Credentials of Windows Services
There was a question from an internal group asking for a way to programmatically change the log on name (and of course password) of a Windows service - this is the user account, local or domain, under which the service process runs when started. Unfortunately...
Posted: Apr 19 2007, 05:19 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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Peformance Comparison: WCF Vs. The Rest
Excellent article comparing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework with other Microsoft distributed technologies (ASP.NET Web Services, .NET Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310550.aspx
Posted: Apr 04 2007, 01:42 AM by Siva M
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Impersonating Network Share (UNC) Path Access
One of the features of the ASP.NET application that I am currently working on requires copying dynamically generated files to a network share path. As guessed(!), the user identity of the ASP.NET worker process (IIS application pool, in case of Windows...
Posted: Mar 01 2007, 06:22 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Available
If you too are interested in looking at the internals of ASP.NET AJAX (Atlas), download the source code at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ef2c1acc-051a-4fe6-ad72-f3bed8623b43&DisplayLang=en Great material if you want to see...
Posted: Jan 31 2007, 12:38 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Available
The much awaited and the first service pack for VS 2005 Team is here at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx SP1 is available for Visual Studio 2005 Express and TFS is also available. However, the SP1 for Vista still seems...
Posted: Dec 15 2006, 10:27 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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.NET 3.0 RTM'd
The much awaited .NET 3.0 (aka, WinFX) is now available for download in RTM mode! This also means Windows WPF, WCF, WWF & CardSpace all available in RTM too! :-) Go get them: .net 3.0 Runtime alone: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx...
Posted: Nov 07 2006, 03:08 AM by Siva M | with no comments
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Profiling .NET Code with StopWatch
One of the new diagnostics tools introduced in .NET 2.0 is the System.Diagnostics.StopWatch class. It lets you time your code with simplest profiling code possible! And I use this class very regularly during my development/desting. I use it especially...
Posted: Oct 09 2006, 05:15 PM by Siva M | with no comments
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Switch Internet Explorer to Offline Mode
I saw a newsgroup post today asking about programmatically (.NET way) switching Internet Explorer to offline mode (checking IE's File | Work Offline menu item). I posted a small C# code that accomplishes this to the newsgroup. Thought would make a blog...
Posted: Oct 04 2006, 09:48 PM by Siva M | with 1 comment(s)
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Getting Windows Process Owner Name
The System.Diagnostics.Process class gives almost every data about a running process. But, the most-wanted information it doesn't give about a process is the process owner name. And I ran across a situation recently that asked for the same thing - here...
Posted: Oct 02 2006, 11:24 PM by Siva M | with 8 comment(s)
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