DotNetByExample - The Next Generation

Joost van Schaik

Senior Mixed Reality Software Architect. Windows Development MVP. Mixed Reality, HoloLens, Unity, .NET, Azure

Yet another way to determine root paths in ASP.NET

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How many times I have tried to find the root path of an ASP.NET page or a handler (ASHX) in order to call another URL I can hardly count. When working with W...

Azure Tables and DateTime: some limitations

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A nice thing I ran into yesterday: if you have a TableStorageEntity child class containing a DateTime property, you have two thing to remember:<ul><...

Using extension methods to serialize objects to XML and compress the result - and deserialize again

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Elaborating upon the string extension methods I created for compressing and decompressing strings to and from a byte array, it turned out fairly easy to crea...

Using extension methods to compress and decompress strings

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After some rightful comments by Jarno Peschier I decided to once again look into my blog post about putting compressed object on the Azure message queue and ...

Putting multiple elements in a Silverlight 3 DataForm DataField while retaining auto Label and Description generation

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Summary: if you want to use a DataForm, want to put multiple controls in one DataField, and still want Silverlight 3 to generate Label and Description from t...