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A simple way to retrieve web page content

I was asked how to GET rss feed from a web site. During research, I found couple of ways to do it in .NET. Below is the simplest way as I can get. ///Sample using System.Net WebRequest wr = HttpWebRequest.Create(@"http://msdn.microsoft.com/globalrss/en-us/global-msdn-en-us.xml"); Read More
posted Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:02 AM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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WebConfig Updater

I has couple of .NET 1.1 web applications use web.config to store most of the application settings. While releasing new version, I need to ship new settings with default value (with comments), and also retain existing customer settings. Read More
posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:11 PM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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TechEd SEA 2007 is coming back!

TechEd2007 is one of the must attend event. Mark your calander to attend this event on 10-13 Sept 2007 at KLCC convention center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. See you there! Tech•Ed SEA 2007, Microsoft’s premier & largest annual conference in the Read More
posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:02 PM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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Anchoring behavour of VFP and .NET

Recently, I play around with anchoring feature in .NET. I found that .NET anchoring is more "accurate" in this scenario compare to VFP. Let assume we have few controls placed at the center of form. There may be some situations we don't want Read More
posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:41 PM by kkchan | 2 Comments
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Enum data type in .NET

I hit error in my code when cast integer data value to an enum data type. It was working yesterday. After some toubleshooting with trial and error, and I found that my field must be int data type in order casting to enum without error. SmallInt would Read More
posted Saturday, January 27, 2007 9:53 PM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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NULL is really painful!

Frankly, I really don't like NULL. Therefore, I never use NULL in my code if possible. It  always give me a lot of problems. Luckily, VFP is more friendly with NULL value. Why do I say so? If I add numeric/character data type value Read More
posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:10 AM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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MSDN article about how to create more flexible system

That is an article from MSDN - Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection: Working with Windsor Container discuss how to use Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection pattern to create more flexible system without highly dependency. The code Read More
posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:16 PM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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DDD and TDD blogs link

I found out two very informative blogs about Domain Driven Model Design and Test Driven Development.  Paul Gielens: Thoughts Service ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog Read More
posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:35 PM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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Visual FoxPro Syntax Highlighter for Windows Live Writer (WLW)

I found a WLW plugin enables a user to insert highlighted source code. It is based on Wilco Bauwer's Syntax Highlighter. I downloaded WLW plugin from here and syntax highlighter engine from here. Currently, syntax highlighter engine supports Read More
posted Friday, October 20, 2006 6:46 PM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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Automate Build, FinalBuilder, Anyone?

Deployment is part of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). I never feel deployment process is important, till I responsible for it in my company. Any re-deployment require QC team re-test the application. Even worst, if we deployed the application Read More
posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:14 PM by kkchan | 0 Comments
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