Silverlight: Dropdown Menu Control

Invoking a Java/AXIS Web Service from .NET: the ‘return null’ issue

WSS / SharePoint: adding filtering capabilities to the CustomListViewWebPart – Filter Chain Fixed
I had a lot of good feedbacks on that SharePoint filtering articles series, the guys that wrote me spotted on a nasty bug on how I was building the chain of filters in CAML. In my code I did something like: <or><

Create an EML file the easy way
Many email readers (like Windows Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird…) use this format to store emails in files; I needed an easy way to create those files to send emails using the default email program the client has configured on his system. Looking the the framework class documentation I’ve found that the SmtpClient cla

How to migrate a Windows XP installation from an IDE to a SATA hard drive
These days I made myself and my bro a ‘Christmas Gift’ and I bought a couple of 10k rpm hard drives to give our systems some speed up. In my childlike mind I thought: migrate the system will be easy..just clone the HD data to the new one, maybe perfor

Using Regular Expressions to identify possible bugs in code
In the past few days I was moved to analyze some legacy code from a huge web application written by a company I work with. I have to write some new modules to integrate in this application; but while I was reviewing the code to ‘learn’ the style and code format used (to try to b

CloseMainWindow(), WM_CLOSE, SC_CLOSE: closing an application programmatically
These days I’m working on a custom application updater for our products and I had the need to Close the main Application process from the Updater process. My first implementation was something like: get the main application process ID and then use something like: ... processToWait = Process.GetProcessById(pid) mProcessToWait.CloseMainWindow() mProcessToWait.WaitForExit() mProcessToWait.Close() ... Which at first worked well. Then I’ve started to play with things like Impersonation and Process spawning with different credential (to overcome some permissions problems in a produ