Musings on Information Technology - A view from the trenches

A few weeks back, the performance testers found this issue when doing some resilience testing: ID1073: A CryptographicException occurred w...

I was refactoring a bit of code last week and I ended creating an interesting scenario. In short, I was re-writing a method to see if by u...

In one of the projects I've been working on, we need process a bunch of files containing invoice data. Processing these can be time con...

What's the difference between String and string in C#? I don't recall why I started asking this question at interviews, I don...

The  OrganizationServiceContext has a  SaveChanges method that essentially does what it says on tin, namely the changes on the objects back...

So yesterday I was playing about with a high memory VM in Azure and I wrote a little app to swallow the server's RAM whole. Only thin...

Too long to explain, oh yes, it was SharePoint related, but I learnt today about various options for formatting Guids available in the frame...

We need to integrate with a third party, who have decided that implementing a federated trust is too complex and thus have just given us a ...

There seems to be no examples of using Linq with late binding and method syntax about, until now: var  collection = context.CreateQuery(...

I'm going through my emails collecting all the interesting stuff that I have accrued over the past year or so, most of it not mine and d...

On Friday we had some interesting issues related to the NetworkCredential class. We were implementing some functionality that was very ...

Today I had an issue where a workflow would fail to complete, oddly it was failing on a Send Email Activity, with the following error messa...

I found myself needing to set a website's https binding for a few servers, this week and I wondered whether this could be done programma...

Last week I was doing some work on a Silverlight application and I was struggling with an event not firing for a calendar control inside a ...

Today I was looking at some issues with date formats, why in god's name do the american's use a different date system than everybody...

I've been using the HTMLAgility pack for a while and I've never had any encoding issues before but recently I've been seen load...

A handy little class to sort a sub area of the sitemap in alphabetical order according to Display name rather than logical name.  Major Area...

I had some fun today trying to work out how to use the AppPool Credentials for integration between our website and SharePoint. So this is ...

The standard advice when anybody answers this question seems to be: Use Calibre , the e-book management software. If you have a Kindle you ...

A method I used to retrieve the label, i.e. text of an option set (I would say more but I honestly can't remember what on Earth we use i...