Rob Garrett - Blogs

February 2006 - Posts

• Access modifiers on property get/set

  To some I may be stating the obvious, but today I was happy to find out that C# lets you set a different access level on the get and set for a property. The example below will help to illustrate what I'm talking about: public DateTime UpdateDate { get Read More... Posted Saturday, February 25, 2006 3:41 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• Embedding Windows Media and Quicktime into ASP.NET pages

  I know there are numerous web sites and blogs about this subject. Since I had to write some code for "Fred" to render on-line video, and embedding video in web pages can be somewhat fiddly to get right, I figured I'd blog the C# code for my future reference. Read More... Posted Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:31 AM by Rob Garrett | 13 Comments

• HTTP SOAP Remoting Problem

  I am developing a simple .NET remoting server using an HTTP channel and SOAP formatter, and ran into a problem earlier with invalid SOAP actions. When invoking a method on a remoted object I was getting the following error message: Unhandled Exception: Read More... Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:02 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Spellbound

  For those of you that use Firefox, and rely on Spellbound to check spelling in text input boxes (I use it for blog posts a lot), you may be disheartened when Spellbound stops working after upgrading to Firefox 1.5.0.1. Not to worry, uninstall your present Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:33 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Died?

  Have I died? Fortunately (or unfortunately for some) I have not, but I have been insanely busy, and have had no time to read the blog posts of others, never mind write any blog posts of my own. My current daytime project (let's call it Fred) has been Read More... Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:57 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments