Patrick Steele's .NET Blog

In another follow-up to the thread I mentioned in my previous post, Ian Griffiths talks about some common misunderstandings about how .NET’s Garbage Collector works and how you interact with it via IDisposable.  In this reply he also mentions:

Vince asks a question about handing out Disposable objects:

Just found out something odd that I never noticed before.  If you use the OpenFileDialog class to allow a user to select a file, then once they’ve selected a file, the directory that file is in is now your application’s current directory!  Huh?  Seems odd to me.

I picked up an MP3 player for my niece and noticed that it appears to come with it’s own CD drive!

I had a chance to play around with the FTP classes in .NET 2.0 (FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse).  My initial impression (after about 15 or 20 minutes of coding) is, yuck — not very good.

FrazzledDad: We Have a Cover!.

Ok, the usual, boring “just testing this” post.  I’ve used w.Bloggar in the past but I’ve seen a number of positive comments from people using BlogJet so I thought I’d give it a try (I never used .Text’s HTML interface for posting and the Community Server one doesn’t wow me either).  Seems a lot like w.Bloggar so far — although no “preview” window (which I kind of liked).  I know this is a WYSIWYG editor, but the styles come from the particular skin I use in CS so it’s not quite as WYSIWYG as I’d like.

I needed to get the device ID from a Windows CE device for a recent project I worked on.  Some googling found many discussions as to whether it was possible on all devices and whether is was even possible via managed code.  Then I found a blog entry by Microsoft's Jeremy Hance that put it to rest:

A Simple Device ID Class