In my previous post (Replace the Queue class with it's Generic Counterpart) I talked about using Generics from the System.Collections.Generic namespace. The concept of replacing the Stack with it's Generic counterpart is the same as that of replacing the Queue. The difference between a Stack and a Queue is that Queue's are first-in first-out and Stacks are last-in first-out.Having said that, let's...

I'm sure there are not many of us out here now that have not at least heard of Generics, let alone use them at some point. One of least used classes from the System.Collections namespace is the Queue. The Queue list allows us to "store" items that we cannot process right away, but get to them in the order that they were presented for processing.Having said that, as with most collections, working wi...

While working at a product developemnt company awhile back I worked on a very large product that made extensive use of Hashtables to store data in-memory to speed up processing. Hashtables are great for key/value pair processing. Our architecture included writing a Windows service and on start-up, the service would read some really large SQL tables, create objects and hash them with a Key for easy...

Using Interop to send Email via Microsoft Outlook from SmartClient applications or processes that run on a server can provide lots of flexibility and in may cases is the preferable method. However, the Process class from the System.Diagnostic namespace also provides this capability to Winform or SmartClient applications and is fairly simple to use. This approach will use Microsoft Outlook or whatev...

Remote Debugging is probably one of the greatest things that Microsoft Visual Studio offers when you need to debug Server-side code and WebServices. In your Visual Studio IDE, by selecting 'Debug' / 'Attach to Process', you get a window with a list of processes you can attach to. Selecting aspnet_wp.exe enables you to attach to the process and when your Server code executes, you can step through th...