Using Logging Application Block provided by Enterprise Library is a common way of logging exceptions in .NET applications.  It’s easy to setup and to use.  One problem I had a while ago was that it worked while on my development PC, but stopped working once it’s deployed.
What I was doing was to use it to [...]

In web application development, we should always think about returning some kind of message to users when an exception is raised in the program.  Sometimes, it can be very specific, while in other cases it can be generic.  A common thought is to capture and possibly handle exceptions where they are raised, re-throw exceptions or [...]

Microsoft Device Emulator is a great tool for testing your mobile web applications without utilizing any real mobile device.  Because it can use the same network that your computer is on, you can use it to test your mobile web applications hosted on development computers or test servers before the applications are published to the internet.  [...]

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of developer tools for their Windows mobile platform. This article is a brief introduction to the platform and what the next generation of mobile development for Microsoft looks like.
After you’ve downloaded the developer tools installer, you will go through a download process…

After downloading the remaining components, you will install [...]

One of the missing features in MOSS 2007 is the ability to recognize PDF files in a document library. It can be frustrating when all you see is a blank page icon instead of SharePoint recognizing the document type properly. This is a common portal issue that is easily remedied with a bit of extra [...]

Code Keep is an easy way to manage and browse code snippets.

Microsoft is expected to remove the CTP from their Azure Platform this month at PDC in Los Angeles. Until then, you can still receive access to their free cloud services platform. To get started with Azure you need a Windows Live ID and signup with Microsoft Connect to receive an access code (aka tokens).

When you [...]

Unless you are a seasoned COM junky, the Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API will come as a welcome addition to anyone needing to programmatically manage Microsoft Exchange appointments, calendars, messages, or any other folders residing on an exchange server. The key difference with EWS is that it is using purely managed code. EWS itself [...]

I’ve developed many custom components for BizTalk in the past several years, but I have never had to work with very large input files (>100MB), primarily I’ve simply created output files. In a recent need to gather several years worth of historical data, it became apparent that memory constraints were going to be pushed to [...]

Today Microsoft announced that its funding $1 million to create a 501(c)(6) corporation called the CodePlex Foundation. Microsoft created Codeplex.com in 2006 to allow developers the opportunity to share open source projects completely free to the community. One of the first open source projects shared on CodePlex was the AJAX Control Toolkit, a very well-known [...]