Ok, so I have been wrestling for the last few days with the fact that I was unable to debug .NET addins in Outlook. For whatever reason, Visual Studio would launch Outlook, and then it would crash almost immediately. I started to think that this might be a permissions issue. With that in mind, I… Continue reading Outlook vs. Whidbey

I was doing some Google’ing on XmlSerialization when I came across an entry in Daniel Cazzulino’s

I have just witnessed something that I feel is on the same level as the invention of the wheel! BOX-4-BLOX – Sorts and Stores Lego

My friend Sondre posted some pics of his servers. It was such a mess, I had to post pics of my machines in the garage.

I can now officially say that the DataSet can kiss my lilly white ass! I have just successfully data bound a custom collection that contains objects that have a property containing another collection. All collection classes derive from CollectionBase, and implements IBindingList. The individual objects implement IEditableObject. This also now makes the design pattern I’m… Continue reading The DataSet Can Kiss My Ass

So, I came across a tribute site for ASCII porn. Check it out here. [Listening to: Back In Black – Rock And Roll Ain%27t Noise Poll.mp3 ]

In case you wrote a IConfigurationSectionHandler in .net 1.0, you may have a problem with 1.1. Check here for the answer. [Listening to: Back In Black – Rock And Roll Ain%27t Noise Poll.mp3 ]

Here’s my new license plate. Doesn’t it R0X0R3?

I have been (re)working the Time Tracker sample app for some time now. I want to move the app to a WinForms app and I have been looking at the TaskVision sample app for ideas. I personally do not care for its use of web services, and I am partial to remoting. I also want… Continue reading ISO The Ultimate Design Pattern

The public interface of my ISA Server is configured for DHCP. It is in turn attached to a cable modem. The problem that this presents is that the cable provider could change the DNS server addies, and the caching-only DNS server installed on the ISA Server would no longer have correct addresses for its forwarders.… Continue reading Dynamic Update for a Caching-Only DNS