I suck at writing...

You've probably already relaised this :-) But I'm in the process of writing my first article on .NET for future publication to this site. It's an article about using nested repeaters bound on to a DataSet with a relation. I'm trying to make it a simple as…

Back - and code for impersonating users...

Well, had a lovely break...now for some code, this will let you 'impersonate' a user - really handy when, for instance, trying to upload a file to a network location...as usual, no idea where I found this, if it was youre, let me know! using System; using…

Compile ASCX controls - so you no longer have to distribute the ASCX file!

I replied to someone's post saying that this was possible, well I finally got around to digging out the link, this article on CodeProject provides a little tool which will generate the C# source file representing your ASCX, pretty cool really!

Now this really bugs me...

Noticed a link in my referrer log from this post which comments on a comment I made in the whole Dyanmic SQL debate, this comment: Right. Because evaluating arguments based on their validity is too much work, so it's much easier to pick the "winner" by picking…

Search gone for the time being...

Just updating the user control...back in a couple of days.. UPDATE: Well, soonish...stupid dev machine is playing up...

New Favourite Toy - Xml Serialization for generating Xml Feeds

I've previously used Xml Serialization for loading and saving config files into and out of apps - nice use...What I've done recently though has been very useful - for me at least. Essentially, I have an application which has a little Poll control, now in…

One last thing before bed...Chris Brumme posts another 'book'

How does this guyfind the time, anyway, found on Roy Osherove's blog, Chris Brumme(CLR God) has posted and article on the Exception model in the CLR. Not exactly light reading...but worthwhile to gain a bit more precious insight into the deep and murky inner…

Really good article on MSDN about Session state in ASP.NET

I really like Dino Esposito's writing style...anyway, he's come up with a brilliant article on the most efficient ways to use Session state from ASP.NET- this is just about the best examination of the subject that I've seen and is now one of my 'must reads'…

Hmm...might have a solution...

Well, the problem I was having with connection pool appears to have gone...all I did was reinstall (well, repair) my VS.NET 2003 install. Odd these little strange bugs!

Getting involved in dumb arguments...of when 'for' and 'foreach' can lead to idiocy...

I do have a tendency to get involved in pointless arguments in the ASP.NET Forums...a good example is this one, arguing about the performance of 'foreach' versus 'for'...any opinions from here - the crux of my argument is that for() will in general perform…