Lesson learned about releasing attachment resources with System.Net.Mail.

A technique for displaying results from LINQ to an ASP.NET GridView.

How I solved the Ambiguous Symbol -- Compiler Error C2872 problem in C++ (dot net).

This is an example of how to get around the ResponseStatusLine protocol violation in multiple .NET languages and in the app.config file.

Here's an example of something fun and useful with Enumerable.Range in four different languages.

Here are some examples of calling a particular ASMX Web Service from different languages.

In my last post, I showed how Extension methods can be created in the .NET 2.0 environment. In this post, I discuss calling the extensions from other dot net languages.

Here is a short, simple method of harnessing Extension methods in Dot Net 2.0. Please read the linked article first.

I've seen a lot of posts of people having problems using Distinct() and/or Sort() with custom objects. Here is an example showing an implementation of both (in C++, C# and VB). This post includes custom Compare methods, the implementation of Distinct() and the use of List.ForEach in the 3 main dot net languages.

Here is a utility that can be used to correct inadvertently restricted items in the Windows system registry.

I have seen a few examples of VBS scripts used to get the User ID, Domain and SID of the current user. This information is valuable when making registry modifications for the current user programatically. I needed a way to retrieve that information in a .NET module to include in other .NET programs.

This (console app) example calls to two different web services. One of which returns raw XML as the result and the other returns a regular (pre-parsed) object. This can be used as a reference for XML and SOAP and a minor LINQ reference.

A utility for demonstrating Linq to XML that downloads MP3 Podcasts of DotNetRocks.

Here is a technique to clear the Debug Assertion Failure when invoking the CInternetSession (MFC class) from a console app.

A technique for using the GZipLib (.NET)

C++ does not seem to be getting much love in the new .NET.

Experimenting with Java and JAR files.

Here's my report on my experience at "Heroes Happen Here".

Here's a posting about some seriously obfuscated Perl code.

Here's an experiment with some mixed language programming (.NET and MFC).

Finally stepping into the .NET world.