Yesterday, I wrote about the Ping class for checking network availability on remote machines. Then I started thinking about checking the availability of web servers. Even if a remote server is available over the network...
The Ping class is new to .NET 2.0 and it let’s you ping remote addresses much the same way as the ping.exe command line tool does. It’s a great way to check the availability of different kinds of remote servers over the...
After I wrote about a HTTP compression module in ASP.NET 2.0 one of my colleagues pointed out that the Deflate compression is faster than GZip. Because the HTTP compression module chooses GZip over Deflate if the browser...
Today I had to add some functionality to an already existing class library. In there were a internal virtual method that I thought were supposed to be protected virtual. To no big surprise, I couldn’t compile after...
The W3C has introduced an API for their HTML Validator. It is not a SOAP web service, but it does return XML that can be parsed, so now you have the ability to incorporate validation to any web application, Windows...
One of the nicest things about the new anonymous methods is how simple event handling has become. Here is an example of how we used to handle events. It demonstrates how to add an event handler to the btnSave’s Click...
Soon, I’m facing a new project where the need for up-to-date currency exchanges is crucial. This is not the first time I’ve done this, but I wanted to make a reusable, self-maintainable class so I don’t have to do it...
Today, I had to build web form that took user input from standard ASP.NET input controls. In one of the text boxes the user must to enter a valid URL, so I had to make some validation logic. But first of all, I had to...
Recently at work, we had to find a way to examine Gif images to find out if they were animated or not. It’s a good thing to know when dealing with banner advertising. The solution was to create a method that would return...
I recently played with building a C# media player with built-in music library and wanted it to show album covers like Windows Media Player 11 does. It proved quite difficult because there is no free service for downloads...
