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Question : How to send MMS with C#, Answer : I need to send MMS thought a C# application. I have already found 2 interesting components: Does anyone have experience with other third party components? Could someone explain what kind of server I need to send those MMS? Is it a classic SMTP Server? , … Read more

Question : Favourite performance tuning tricks, Answer : When you have a query or stored procedure that needs performance tuning, what are some of the first things you try? , Here is the handy-dandy list of things I always give to someone asking me about optimisation. We mainly use Sybase, but most of the advice … Read more

Question : What do you think will be the level of usage of Silverlight 1 year from now?, Answer : There is a lot of buzz about Microsoft Silverlight, especially after the Olympics. Also H264 will be supported in a future version. Where do you think Silverlight will be 1 year from now? , They … Read more

Question : How do I do a simple ‘Find and Replace” in MsSQL?, Answer : Question is pretty self explanitory. I want to do a simple find and replace, like you would in a text editor on the data in a column of my database (which is MsSQL on MS Windows server 2003) , The … Read more

Question : VS 2008 – Objects disappearing?, Answer : I’ve only been using VS 2008 Team Foundation for a few weeks. Over the last few days, I’ve noticed that sometimes one of my objects/controls on my page just disappears from intellisense. The project builds perfectly and the objects are still in the HTML, but I … Read more

Question : How to get name associated with open HANDLE, Answer : What’s the easiest way to get the filename associated with an open HANDLE in Win32? , I tried the code posted by Mehrdad here. It works, but with limitations: It should not be used for network shares because the MountPointManager may hang for … Read more

Question : What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?, Answer : If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be? I expect this list to be varied and to cover a … Read more

Question : Import Namespace System.Query, Answer : I am trying to load Linq on my .Net 3.5 enabled web server by adding the following to my .aspx page: However, this fails and tells me it cannot find the namespace. The type or namespace name ‘Query’ does not exist in the namespace ‘System’ I have also … Read more

Question : How to animate the command line?, Answer : I have always wondered how people update a previous line in a command line. a great example of this is when using the wget command in linux. It creates an ASCII loading bar of sorts that looks like this: [======>                    ] 37% and of course the … Read more

Question : Access a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition from a network computer, Answer : How do you access a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition from a application in a network computer? The access I need is both from application (Linq-to-SQL and ODBC) and from Management Studio , See this KB Article. Oh, and remember … Read more