Dotnet by Example

Motto: "Talk is cheap, show me the code!"

This blog attempts to be a collection of how-to examples in the Microsoft software stack - things that may take forever to find out, especially for the beginner. I see it as my way to return something to the Microsoft community in exchange for what I learned from it.

25 August 2009

Yet another way to determine root paths in ASP.NET

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How many times I have tried to find the root path of an ASP.NET page or a handler (ASHX) in order to call another URL I can hardly count. Wh...
21 August 2009

Azure Tables and DateTime: some limitations

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A nice thing I ran into yesterday: if you have a TableStorageEntity child class containing a DateTime property, you have two thing to rememb...
15 August 2009

Using extension methods to serialize objects to XML and compress the result - and deserialize again

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Elaborating upon the string extension methods I created for compressing and decompressing strings to and from a byte array , it turned out f...
12 August 2009

Using extension methods to compress and decompress strings

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After some rightful comments by Jarno Peschier I decided to once again look into my blog post about putting compressed object on the Azure...
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05 August 2009

Putting multiple elements in a Silverlight 3 DataForm DataField while retaining auto Label and Description generation

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Summary: if you want to use a DataForm, want to put multiple controls in one DataField, and still want Silverlight 3 to generate Label and ...
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01 August 2009

Bind Silverlight 3 Slider Value, Minimum and Maximum attributes in EXACTLY the right order!

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Today I want to share a piece of very hard won knowlegde with you. That piece of knowlegde is: if you want to use a Silverlight Slider, and ...
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24 July 2009

Storing objects as compressed messages in the Windows Azure Queue

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For my current private R&D project I wanted to store 'task set' objects (in code samples below as shown type "Request"...
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Joost van Schaik
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pronounced as: 'Yoast van Schaik'.

Senior Developer / Software Architect, Windows Development MVP.
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