A common error while initialising an EntityModel from a WCF Service is the following message: ArgumentException was unhandled by user code The specified named connection is either not found in the configuration, not intended to be used with the EntityClient provider, or not valid. Or more visu... [More]

As of yesterday, the ASP.NET MVC has reached Beta status after five earlier preview releases. The released beta can be downloaded from Microsoft Download. Just to point you in the right direction of the included features so far, you might find Maarten Balliauw's blog helpful as he is strongly climb... [More]

It is a common scenario for any corporate environment to periodically send large quantities of e-mails. However, as important as sending the mail - is knowing who didn't receive the mail. It is therefor vital to catch all e-mails that could not be delivered to a recipient. People from Sales love th... [More]

Initializing a WCF Service through codebehind, without App.config [More]

In VB.NET we can easily query the current Windows user - and which roles are "addressed" to him/her. Long live the My-namespace. In C# it isn't tricky either, it just needs a little deeper digging in the System.Security.Principal namespace. In the following example we will check if a user is a memb... [More]