The .NET Base Class Library team have a couple of posts on their blog, about the new DateTimeOffset class in the BCL (title "A Brief History of DateTime" and "A Brief History of DateTime Follow-up"). In those posts, they go to some lengths to describe… more »

There's two parts to this post, both related by the fact that they both contributed to a bug in my code that's been around for a few weeks that I was unable to figure out until only today. The first, and perhaps most obvious problem, was something I w… more »

Say I have a form (we're talking WinForms here, by the way). Now say I have an "OK" button that, when you click it, goes off and does some processing. Let's also say that I'm a good citizen and I do that work in using a BackgroundWorker. With me so fa… more »

grep is one of the most useful tool ever created. I don't know why a version doesn't come built-in to Windows -- it's quite annoying whenever we set up a new server at work that we have to install one every time. Anyway, I've created this very simple… more »

For reasons that I could never figure out, the "development ASP.NET" server, which is a great little program for testing ASP.NET websites runs in 32-bit mode only. I suppose that's because Visual Studio is 32-bit only, but seeing as how my ASP.NET server… more »