Archive for November, 2009

WCF beginner’s guide

Monday, November 30th, 2009

1. Create a WCF Service Library project 2. Create an entity object class .cs. 3. Annotate entity class with [DataContract] attribute. 4. Annotate fields (from class above) you want in the contract with [DataMember] attribute. 5. Next, create a IService.cs interface that has the operations that can be performed. 6. Annotate with [ServiceContract] attribute. 7. Annotate ...

.NET Streams cheatsheet

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

A summary of streams in .NET. TextReader [abstract] -----> StringReader -----> StreamReader TextWriter [abstract] -----> StringWriter (uses underlying StringBuilder) -----> StreamWriter

Anonymous BitTorrent / Anonymous Internet Surfing

Friday, November 13th, 2009

A list of software applications, tools and utilities for anonymous bittorrent and anonymous web surfing.

ObjectDataSource : how to set insert / update parameters programmatically

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Having begun programming with ASP.NET from its inception where you wrote your own solutions to common problems, I've found the introduction of ObjectDataSource objects and similar functionality a blessing and a curse. Although they can save a bit of coding I always find my self wasting lots of time trying ...