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So, I like I said earlier, I have been playing with the Personal Web Site Starter Kit (PWSK) in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. I read these two articles:
· Introduction to the Personal Web Site Starter Kit
· Extending [...]

In networks all over, many devices can send Syslogs to a syslog server. You can download Syslog Servers (like Kiwi) to capture and process the syslogs, or you can create your own server to catch all the syslogs on your network. Then you can parse them to a database and write your own reports of [...]

Last night I was working a project, and a feature was requested to have the program change the screen resolution to 1024×768, and then back to what the user had before they started the program. I figured, hey, .NET, it should be easy, right? First rule of computers…nothing can every be easy.
First order of business. [...]

In .NET , Microsoft introduced the Try, Catch, Finally exception handling. In all books and examples I have seen, you catch an exception like so:
Try
…some code
Catch ex as Exception
…some error handling code
End Try
Well, what happens when you are catching a SQL Exception?
Try
…some code
Catch sEx as SqlException
…some error handling code
End Try
Is Microsoft trying to tell us [...]

I know Microsoft is trying to make everything .NET, and they have there is a Visual Studio .NET for Microsoft Office thing, but I mean, it is a PITA if you want to try to make managed code work with MS Office. I would like to make some add-in’s for Outlook, but I want it [...]

Wow..Cisco Netflow. What a pain in the a$$. Anyways, I think I am going
to have the only .NET Netflow Capture and Parsing program in the
world. Hopefully. It really is tough to parse the packets and decode
the correctly, but I am on the right track. Ethereal helped me a bit in
that department. Ethereal has a built [...]

Application Code Blocks are little “parts” of programs that Microsoft has created that you can install, and then include the assemblies in your program. The code has been tested and was created with best practices in mind.
We went over:
1) Configuration Management Block : Allows you to set up app.config files easily and encrypt and sign [...]