Error reporting with PushingBox
One of my users let me know they were using a cloud service called PushingBox to be notified of events in Directory Monitor. I investigated what it can do and immediately thought o…
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8 articlesLogging setup in 5 minutes with NLog
UPDATE: The latest version of NLog breaks many of these tools by including NLog data by default. The code has been updated to correct this problem by excluding it for both Sentinel…
Generating statistics from SVN
A subversion repository contains a tome of information about your code and looking at this data can prove very useful in identifying trends in development. Quite some time ago I pu…
Show calendar on click DateTimePicker control
Something that’s common-place on the web is clicking a text box to pop-up a calendar. What if you wanted the calendar to pop-up when simply clicking on any area of a System.Windows…
Android applications in C# using Visual Studio
I recently got myself an Android mobile phone and was really interested in writing applications for it. After downloading the Android SDK as well as the 32-bit Java SDK (noooooo!)…
Installing and removing fonts using C#
In this article I am going to describe how to install a font when your application is installed on a user's machine. You can do this directly in the application code which I will d…
Sending HTML e-mail with embedded images (the correct way)
I've seen a couple posts on this before but they all seem to miss out a critical piece of code that without, causes the images to be embedded but they do not display correctly in s…
Checking if the workstation is locked
I recently needed to determine whether the workstation that an application was running on is locked. Surprisingly, I couldn't find anything really simple on the internet so I figur…