…Or at least a class I didn’t know existed, but let’s see if I’m right or not. The class resides in the System.Web.UI namespace and is used various places in ASP.NET. Among those places are the inner workings of the...
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming a more and more common way to bring websites and servers down. They are very easy to do and pretty hard to protect against, which is why they are so popular. The only thing...
The thread pool gives you an easy and safe way for creating multithreaded applications, and even though the stateless nature of the Internet isn’t the best place for multithreading, it can still be the right thing to do...
This is great news for all .NET developers who want a job in Copenhagen, Denmark. We need to find a Senior C# Back-end Developer and a ASP.NET Front-end Developer. Both positions are highly technical and very interesting...
Recently, one of my readers asked me how to block certain IP addresses from accessing his ASP.NET website. It was a good question that could be answered in multiple correct ways. My answer was a plug ‘n play HttpModule...
Whenever a Windows Form is closed, you can catch this event by overriding the OnClosing() method. In this method you have the option to do some cleanup before it closes. You can also prevent the Form from closing by...
For quite a while now, I have needed a simple website monitoring tool that would check the uptime of my websites. There are a lot of different ones on the Internet, some are free and some are very expensive. All the ones...
Most of the primitive types in the CLR have a Parse method that takes a string and parses it into its own data type. I could be DateTime.Parse(string) or Int.Parse(string) etc. It’s a great way of doing late binding and...
The Visual Studio 2005 launch improved so many things from older versions – some big and some small. Yet somehow it is always the small things you remember. The 2005 release is superior in almost any aspect except one –...
Internet Explorer can only make 2 connections at a time, which means that only two elements can be loaded while the rest is queued up. Imaging a web page with 10 Flash movies, then only two of the movies can be loaded at...
