Category Archives: Coding

WPF browser applications

I have written a number of WinForms applications over the years and while I think they’re pretty great, it’s hard to showcase them to the world at large. It occurred to me that it would be fantastic if there was … Continue reading

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Windows service management using WMI

After reading this post at StackOverflow, I realized that I was probably wrong to think it was OK to directly access the registry keys that Windows uses to keep track of installed services. Though the names and locations of the … Continue reading

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An easy way to update DNN modules from another app

My thanks go out to Mitchel Sellers for informing me that DotNetNuke has a bulk install feature. I had a need to modify an existing Windows service so it could silently update some DNN modules. I was able to make … Continue reading

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LDAP queries

A recent project of mine required querying Active Directory for all the groups in which a given user is a member, or if there isn’t a domain then searching the local machine. It also had to return all groups defined … Continue reading

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SharePoint doesn’t like FileUpload

A while back I wrote an ASP.NET user control that FTPs files to a server. It has a FileUpload control that allows the user to select the file they want to transfer, plus it uses some AJAX stuff to display … Continue reading

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Microsoft SharePoint

My employer has two web sites: our main one that contains mostly marketing materials, and the support site, which customers must log into and which allows them to download our new software releases, get documentation, and do various other support-related … Continue reading

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Fun with third party controls: Spell check edition

You would think spell checking a text box on a web form would be a snap. Firefox manages to do it the background: simple, easy, and it always works. But Telerik decided to go a different way, the ridiculously hard … Continue reading

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Fun with third-party controls

Telerik recently managed to brighten my day. I’ve been using their WinForm and ASP.NET suites for a few weeks now, long enough to realize there are several things about them that irritate me. Case in point: the text boxes. I … Continue reading

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The DotNetNuke Client API has always seemed mysterious and confusing to me, so much so that I phased it out of a module I wrote a while back in favor of an AJAX web service. But there are certain parts … Continue reading

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