It seems like each post I do has something to do with XML Serialization lately. And for good reason. The Binary Serialization currently used by BASeBlock [...]

Console applications are fairly common for handling simple, routine tasks; sometimes the task is straightforward and otherwise runs on it’s own with [...]

While the title is partially tongue-in-cheek, in that Printing Receipts would generally not be a particularly exciting topic, it still offers it’s [...]

After I loved on to .NET and C#, I was happy to leave the sinking ship that was VB6. As I learned C#, I became more and more aware of just how shoddy and [...]

introspection into Types, Methods, and Parameters is a very useful feature for the creation of highly dynamic programs. One use for this ability is to [...]

Recently, a mysterious bug cropped up in one of the programs for which I had most of the responsibility. In this case the bug was a strange “The [...]

Handling and dealing with Errors can be tricky. When your program crashes you want to fix it as soon as possible. One of the most valuable pieces of [...]

Following my experience fiddling with this as documented Here I found the result had numerous issues. Even when running it on a separate thread there was [...]

Oftentimes dealing with Database logic is like pulling teeth. Other times, it’s like being knocked unconscious by having a fruit bat thrown at your [...]

Visual Basic has a useful Operator, the “Like” Operator. Observe it in action: [crayon-6648a08a41e73497307092/] The Like operator is a pattern [...]