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Accessing Calendar Programatically

The Calendar in Microsoft Outlook can be accessed through the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook assembly, available for download here. The code to provide access to the MAPIFolder object representing the calendar is shown below, along with a demons...

Permissions in .NET

While writing an application to automatically install and configure an ASP.NET application I had developed for a client, I came across an issue I had rarely needed to consider in .NET: how to set file permissions? Usually I'm responsible for confi...

CSV Files as Databases

I came across an interesting technique to access CSV files using SQL syntax today. Reading from and writing to CSV files has always been something I've tried to avoid in my code, because (while it is a simple format) there are numerous ways to for...

Setting Up a Test Server

Today I was trying to set up an additional development server for testing of ASP.NET sites and MS-SQL databases, as our original server had become overloaded and was performing poorly for testing purposes. In setting up the server, I encountered s...

Error Logging in ASP.NET

As I've spent more and more time developing websites in ASP.NET, I've read a lot of different opinions on a variety of concerns, but one thing I rarely really considered was the best way to handle errors in ASP.NET applications. Default error page...