Over the years, I’ve used a lot of third-party components and self built control libraries. It an easy way to add functionality to your code projects – just reference the dll file and that’s it. This encapsulated...

Yesterday, I received a lot of mails and comments on how to improve this blog. Thank you. Most of the comments and mails I received asked me to make it easier to navigate to the different code samples on this site. To...

Here is a list of the different tools I've developed and posted to this website. Source code in C# is included for all tools. The links points to the blog post, so you can get explanations and examples on how to use...

Exactly one year ago this website saw the light of day and in that time the archive has grown to 201 posts about C#, ASP.NET and a little bit of other related stuff. This will continue in the year to come. Because I’m in...

Many websites have two points of entry for each individual page – one with www and one without. It means that if other websites link to yours, they might link to the same page using two different addresses. If you make...

After I wrote about how to check a website's position at the Google search result page, I thought it would be fun to write a little application that uses that method, but extend it to work with Yahoo and AltaVista as...

One of the biggest problems with the different types of collections in the .NET Framework, is that they don’t tell you if the collection as been changed or not. If you have a Collection<int> that has to be persisted to a...

If you want to test your position in Google for a certain search term, you can do so by using the Google website. By position I don't mean Page Rank, but the actual place in the search results. You can also use C# to...

A couple of months ago one of my readers asked me to build a stock quote class that would automatically update the quote. I forgot about it, but then I found the e-mail and decided to give it a go. I started looking for...

In many different scenarios we need to check if a string can be converted into an integer e.g. This could be when we work with query strings and need to check if they match a certain data type. In VB.NET you can use the...