September 28, 2003
Free .NET libraries
I found some free .NET libraries for doing things like file association, reading JPEG EXIF properties, adding to the Recent Documents list, and getting Explorer's thumbnail view icon for any file. Click here.
Password-based encryption with .NET
Ivan Medvedev's blog has a great article about password-based encryption using the .NET framework. Great sample code too. Read it here.
September 25, 2003
NGen Unleashed
Jason Zander, the Product Unit Manager for the CLR, posted some great info on what NGen actually does and when it should be used. Check it out.
September 16, 2003
Call DoEvents after EnableVisualStyles
I thought I'd post a quick workaround for those of you who might be having trouble getting Application.EnableVisualStyles() to work or if the visual styles are only being applied to a few of your forms. This bug in the 1.1 version of the .NET framework can, fortunately, be solved by calling Application.DoEvents() right after calling Application.EnableVisualStyles(). That's it, problem solved. :)
September 14, 2003
Ultimate Developer Tools List
If you haven't seen it yet, check out Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List.
September 01, 2003
TextBox balloon tooltip
Here's an article that shows how to display a balloon tooltip for a text box in Windows XP. Looks amazingly simple and C# source code is included.
HttpGuillotine 1.3
It's time for the 1.3 release of HttpGuillotine. This release now uses the .NET Framework 1.1 and the UI has been updated to use XP themes. HttpGuillotine is a utility I wrote to view the HTTP headers for any URL.
IIS 5.0 running on Linux?
According to Netcraft, www.joshchristie.com is running Microsoft IIS 5.0 web server on Linux. :)
I'll try to write about my complicated server setup sometime and explain why Netcraft is apparently confused.