Null Reference Exception

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Oracle Connections with DataDirect Part 2: Reauthentication

In Part 1, we looked at fixing a problem with the memory usage of connection pools by accelerating...

Author: brien Date: 06/07/2010

Web Security Practice

I recently started checking out Google Code University’s Jarlsberg Project, which is a really cool...

Author: brien Date: 06/07/2010

Oracle Connections with DataDirect Part 1: Timeout

Recently, a customer had issues with an ASP.Net application connecting to an Oracle database using...

Author: brien Date: 06/07/2010

Windows Server 2008 R2 Native Boot

After reading Scott Hanselman’s description of how awesome Boot from VHD is, I had to try it. ...

Author: brien Date: 05/06/2010

Cost Savings vs. Cost Avoidance

We presented an informal proposal to a customer that included some cost savings estimates.  The...

Author: brien Date: 05/04/2010

File Download in IE6

Setup We moved the file download portion of our ASP.NET 3.5 WebForms application to MVC Symptoms...

Author: brien Date: 02/08/2010

Learning PowerShell: Random Album

With the inclusion of PowerShell in Windows 7, it has become much more accessible and widely...

Author: brien Date: 01/18/2010

SQL Server 2005 Full Text Search Timeout

Setup ASP.Net 3.5 application with a SQL Server 2005 backend Full Text Search index (to search a...

Author: brien Date: 12/29/2009

File Associations in ClickOnce Applications

One of the really cool features of ClickOnce applications is the ability to set file...

Author: brien Date: 12/04/2009

Learning Expression as a Developer

As a developer, working on Silverlight and WPF can be a bit confusing.  There’s a lot of...

Author: brien Date: 10/06/2009

.NET RIA Services Part 1: When to Use It

I’ve started using the July 2009 preview of .NET RIA Services (which really could use a better name,...

Author: brien Date: 09/24/2009

Silverlight DataGrid: Custom Columns in Code

Scott Morrison has some excellent posts on specifying columns in a Silverlight DataGrid, but he...

Author: brien Date: 09/17/2009