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In response to a newsgroup question where an ASP developer (who had seen the light) wanted to know if it was still necessary to immediately close connections or if it was okay to keep them open. ________________________________ Unless your server is supporting many hundreds of users or you're under a licensing restriction, you can easily get away with creating and holding connections--lots of them. The disadvantage to this approach is that it ties up some resources on the server to maintain y ... [ read more ]
I needed to get the device ID from a Windows CE device for a recent project I worked on.  Some googling found many discussions as to whether it was possible on all devices and whether is was even possible via managed code.  Then I found a blog entry by Microsoft's Jeremy Hance that put it to rest: A Simple Device ID Class Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
After my TLC session on XML Tools in Visual Studio a gentleman came up to me and asked me a question. He said that he deals with XML coming over the pipe and their usually isn’t an end-of-file character at the end of his email document. He was trying to figure out how he can create a DOM over the valid XML. He was using one reader to do this. I knew that he could use the subtree reader but I didn’t have any code handy to give him. So I played around a bit and here is what I came up with: & ... [ read more ]
Today's braking news - BillG announced he is stepping down from his full-time role (no, that is not two weeks notice, over two years that is :) Gates will remain the chair and will dedicate all of his time to charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Robert Scoble posted  just a couple of lines but we all know Bill's decision is driven by Scoble's announce last week about leaving Microsoft for Silicon Valley based video blogging and podcasting startup ... [ read more ]


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