Archive for April, 2008

How to Locate the active item in Solution Explorer

How’d I miss this one?

Daniel Cazzulino’s Blog : Locating the active item in the solution explorer

Great tip Dan.  Thanks

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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Reflection From a DLL and Serialization

Last week, we finished up our main series on reflection.  For most people, what we covered is all they will ever need.  However, there are a few other things I’ve needed to know due mainly to the fact that I was using reflection from a DLL instead of an EXE

When I wrote VSS.NET, which was my first .NET application, allow Visual SourceSafe to be used over the Internet, I wanted to implement the SCC api.  This is the API that allows you to use VSS from the IDE.  For some reason that I can’t remember now and isn’t important to this discussion, I needed to use reflection from the DLL that the SCC interface was calling.  This posed two problems.

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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Who’s AJAX Should You Use?

Just had someone ask me a question this morning that I bet many others have asked or are asking…

Should I use MS-AJAX, that comes with ASP.NET or should I use something from another vendor?

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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008