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• .NET Regular Express Assembly Builder Tool (v2.0.0.3)

  A few weeks ago I made some updates to my Regular Expression Assembly Builder that I wrote some time back. These updates have long been requested by users and I finally carved out some time to get them implemented. These are the new features in verion... Posted Dec 23 2008, 10:21 AM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: C#, Regular Expressions, Utilities

• Mysterious 32-bit on 64-bit Registry Redirection Dilemma

  Alright, this has been a downright stumper and I'm currently at a loss. For this reason, therefore, I'm opening up to the community to see if anyone out there has any recommendations to this dilemma. The issue revolves around running a 32-bit... Posted Dec 09 2008, 07:37 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: C#, .NET, Debugging, Visual Studio

• Resolving Localized System Account Names

  When granting database permissions to built-in security accounts you need to be aware of potentially localized account names. Just this past week I ran into an issue when attempting to execute a SQL Server database script on a German server OS. The database... Posted Sep 07 2008, 07:08 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: C#, SQL Server, Security

• Watch How and When You Check For Windows Themes

  I ran across some interesting (read 'unexpected) behavior the other day when writing a .NET WinForms control. This particular control has some logic that executes if and only if the host OS has visual themes enabled. In order to check for the existence... Posted Sep 01 2008, 11:50 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: C#, Visual Studio

• Registering Design-Time Changes Programmatically in Custom .NET Controls

  I've been putting together a nice little WinForms Wizard control recently that had a few twist and turns to its development. In particular, I wanted to make the design-time experience a good one for the end user. I wanted to support design-time navigation... Posted Aug 28 2008, 07:47 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: C#, Visual Studio

• Accessing a Remote Database in ASP.NET (Working Around the Double Hop Conundrum)

  I've recently been thinking about database authentication in an ASP.NET application. While this concept is most definitely unoriginal - a great many web applications must perform data access of some sort - it is easy to get confused by the many variations... Posted Jul 13 2008, 10:02 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server

• Suppressing Control Redrawing While Updating

  I was putting together a small application today that presents data in a TextBox. Now while this isn't too uncommon :), the text gets added to the TextBox a line at a time via the TextBox's .AppendText() method. I needed to do this repeatedly... Posted Jun 27 2008, 02:28 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: C#, .NET