I was hunting for some POP3 stuff in .NET when I happened across this thing, basically a fully-featured POP3 / IMAP/ SMTP / WebMail client written in C# with Source code for free! It's really nice and basically provides all the bits I need for my POP3 mail toy…
Kent Sharkey writes that this is currently down again - seems that some people were a bit quick off the mark in posting the download...anyway, keep checking, apparently there's going to be a couple of pages with some more info about it there as well Found out…
Got these from ASP.NET - yes, I am well aware that everyone who reads this will have seen these there...it's really just to remind me! Anyway, great article on DotnetJunkies about Base Pages - these are just incredibly useful when trying to build a web site…
I used this IDE a fair bit in my Java days, all I can say is WOW! It really is an awesome IDE - check out some of the features! So I am really pleased that there's a plan to release a version of IDEA for C#. Found this on Stefan Demetz's blog... If Roy is…
This really is a very quick tip...I think I got it from Fritz Onion'sexcellent Essential ASP.NET with Examples is C# (which I really recommend incidentally!). If you want to store a property which should persist using ViewState, you can save yourself a lot of…
Sorry I've been a bit quiet over the past few days...as I mentioned on Tuesday, I had a checkup at the Diabetic clinic on Tuesday...umm...well...let's just say it didn't go well - oddly an all pizza diet and no physical activity is not good for you! So, I've…
Just noticed this on Stefano Demiliani's blog, lots and lots of bugs, some of them pretty interesting! I don't know just how 'verified' lots of them actually are: http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd1660/bear-fight-slide-2-71.tclAn interesting idea of Dejan Jelovic.…
I'm beginning to suspect I'm a bit odd...case in point, one of my favourite films is currently on BBC1, L.A. Story, no idea why, I just love this film! Others include Empire Records, Night On Earth (mainly the Italian section) and The Big Blue. So, what does…
My interests include .NET, Sci-Fi, trashy TV and Whisky...(surprisingly I'm single - go figure! :-)). Anyway, thought I'd give all non Scots (yes, Scots...Scotch is a whisky...not a nationality) a recommendation on what Scotches are worth checking out... The…
The following is via Roy Osherove's blog.. Interesting research aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The…
I currently use a batch job with analog for the stats for this site, but it isn't perfect (I like to see a list of visitors in chronological order for instance, which analog doesn't provide...). Brian Desmond has published a handy little article on the set up…
Why doesn't the .NET implementation of Web Services support GZIP compression? I've found a couple of articlesdescribing how to implement it, but I'll have to do a bit of digging (my Reference.cs doesn't have the mentioned methods...). I'd have thought that Web…
To cut a long story short, even though I've used .NET since the first beta (in 1999), I never got around to using Winforms - no, really! I have developed winforms apps in VB6 and swing apps in Java, just never got round to writing a C# Winforms app... To cut a…
I did not know this was possible or so easy! Just found out you can extend XSLT (so you can use bits of code in there) from C# have a look here and here for the lowdown... This would have saved me so much time...why haven't I read about this before? Maybe I…
AspToday has a really good article on grouping validators in ASP.NET - client as well as server side (which I hadn't seen in a code sample before). Anyway, you need a subscription to view it (sorry, but it is worth it!) here's the article.
Very simple, but Dan Bright points out that: No to all? Ever get one of those messagebox prompts with the options: Yes, Yes To All, No, Cancel? Where is No To All? I will tell you! Hold the shift button when you click no and it will apply that to all following…
I really should be asleep (it's 1:30am - I need sleep!). Anyway, whilst my self-imposed insomnia is still in control, I foung this interesting little article on "10 Rock-Solid UI Tips" at the Infragistics site. Some pretty useful little tidbits there, althougn…
Also from the land of UserAgents, just discovered this, shows a map of the world with constantly updating blog entries...quite mesmeric actually!
I've just written a little HttpModule which lets me see incoming requests in real-time, very interesting to see just what weird and wonderful clients are hitting this site - way more than I actually thought which is nice...also very interesting just how easy…
I download lots of ISOs from MSDN and others for evaluating software, developing etc...To be frank, burning all these to CD is a pain. I have recently stumbled upon a great tool called Undisker - basically, it lets you treat ISOs like archives - so you can…