Handling very large numbers in .Net

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in | 2 Comments »

My recent attempts at playing the Google Treasure Hunt found me looking for ways to work with very large numbers. My solution to the first puzzle was consistently giving me ... Read more..

Further clarification on various versions of .Net

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in | 4 Comments »

Scott Hanselman has an excellent post clearing the confusion surrounding .Net Framework versions. Although, I did take a shot at explaining my understanding of them, but I guess I wasn't ... Read more..

Accessing Session from inside a HTTPHandler

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in | No Comments »

Here something I didn't know before. By default, you cannot access the session from within an Asp.Net HttpHandler. To be able to do that, your handler class has to implement ... Read more..

Microsoft .net Framework code available

Saturday, October 6th, 2007 Posted in | No Comments »

Microsoft went and did another good thing. They have made the source code for the .net framework available, though not at Open Source. It is available for reference and you ... Read more..

Dot net Three Point What?

Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in | 2 Comments »

Well, .Net… phew… as exciting as it is, it is running away at the pace at which we get new features. I have done some serious projects on .Net 1.1 ... Read more..

Display Html in Silverlight

Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in | 2 Comments »

With Silverlight doing the rounds these days, folks at my workplace decided to build an application (a real-world app which hopefully our customers will use) using Silverlight. I, being always ... Read more..

Windows Forms – Simulate Tab with Enter Key

Thursday, February 8th, 2007 Posted in | 1 Comment »

A colleague was trying to figure out the best way to tab between various fields on a data entry form he made using .Net WinForms. He wanted the ability to ... Read more..

Detecting a dot net assembly’s build configuration

Thursday, December 14th, 2006 Posted in | No Comments »

I came across a problem wherein we needed to ensure that when we release our project assemblies they are in "Release" mode and not in "Debug" mode. Google and MSDN ... Read more..

Ado.Net for Entities, ORM, Business Objects

Thursday, August 31st, 2006 Posted in | No Comments »

Ever since I have been developing data-driven .Net apps, I have always had an uneasy relationship with the ORM part of the app. ORM is of course a huge topic ... Read more..