Someone who was doing a code review for me asked me this question, and how it related to .NET development in general. Funny misconception about NaN, it is not just limited to .NET compatible languages, but is actually an enter computer science concept, to represent an invalid file output based on invalid input operands. I [...]

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Update to this article with SharePoint Solution (.wsp) file is available here!
A past customer called me today, frantically going nuts because they have a large MOSS deployment (~ 15,000 users) that was planned for production push out tomorrow, and needed a redirection strategy.
Eh, what? What the hell does a redirection strategy mean?
The problem with their [...]

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In one my past posts, I talked about that CryptoCollaboration using the EventArgs base class because it keeps things nice and generalized, allowing for expanasion for the handling of future event integration. A person emailed me and asked for a practical example of when would use such a thing in a SharePoint WebPart. Eh, ok.
I [...]

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Ever notice how its always the smallest code tasks that take the longest to solve? Thats how it is with me!
I am working on an emailing program and I wanted to be able to build an ErrorCollection class, inheriting from the StringCollection base class since it would allow the representation of a set of strings. [...]

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I was looking at some code that I wrote in the past (I don’t even remember when!), interested in what classes might have been deprecated. One of the classes that I figured would be deprecated was the PortalContext class that provides run-time support for a portal site, however I was wrong, and it is still [...]

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