Well, I'm back...and comments on some books...

Had a nice, relaxing holiday, read a few books, I can recommend Charles Petzold's Code and kind of recommend Homer, Sussman and Howard's Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 - I say 'kind of' because I found it really patchy in the writing style...but then I've never liked…

C# Code Formatter (actually vb too...)

Very useful...http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/

File Download

ASP.NET has a problem with file downloads...basically if you use Response.WriteFile(fileName), the entire file is buffered in memory before its' downloaded - this is NOT good for scalability. To get round that proble, here's some code which could be used for…

Back Soon!

I'm currently on holiday - hence no new entries. Be back in a few days - lots of cool stuff on Pocket PC programming with the Compact Framework coming up :-)

More new bits...

More changes, you've probably noticed the feed taken from http://weblogs.asp.net on the right hand column...this is done using a slightly modified version of the RSS Feed control I posted earlier - no real benefit to it, just gives the page a bit more life…

Another article in the offing...hopefully...if I get round to it...Member methods versus OnItemDataBound for nested Data List controls

A very common question in the ASP.NET Forumsis "How do I nest one Repeater (or DataList or DataGrid) inside of another?"; well, my usual stock answer used to be to use the OnItemDataBound event then use a FindControl() to find the Repeater inside the template…

Nice Christmassy code...

Nice article on CodeProject on generating fractal snow...and a nice screensaver (which now works on multiple monitors) by Thomas Petricek who has also written a couple of other pretty nice articles and he's only in High School - makes you feel old doesn't it!

Enabling SMTP authentication with CDOSYS (System.Web.Mail)

One of the most common problems with using CDOSYS (which is the underlying class used by System.Web.Mail) is the lack of authentication for sending mail via SMTP, Darren Jefford posted a method to do this, I've reproduced it below since it's currently hosted…

Delegate.BeginInvoke() and memory leaks...

I'm getting increasingly involved in the world of Asynchrony and have been doing a bit of digging about into some of the pitfalls of multi-threading. I came across an interesting one today involving the use of BeginInvoke without a corresponding EndInvoke when…

Memory Leak - solved - or 'When STAThread Goes Bad'

I posted a little while ago about an odd 'Memory Leak' I was having...well, after several days of trawling (and annoying Data Wantawho's excellent email component I was mistakenly blaming - sorry!), I finally found the answer! Turns out that the little…