If you have ever tried to create a traceroute program using one of the few available ICMP libraries freely available for C# you may have run into some issues mainly to do with the ICMP checksum not being correct. It seems that as of .NET 2.0 framework that microsoft included a Ping class that makes ...
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I might be behind the times but I just found out that MS released free charting controls for Winform and ASP.NET. Requires you be running VS2008.
Charting Component Download : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=130F7986-BF49-4FE5-9CA8-910AE6EA442C&displaylang=en
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If you store settings in your application using Settings.Settings and have ever upgraded your application you may have found all the user settings have vanished. It seems that the user.config file is stored in %UserProfile/LocalSettings/Application Data/CompanyName/ApplicationName/versionnumber/us...
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Want to write software that is safe and secure. Check out this article that outlines the top 25 most dangerous programming errors and how to fix them.
http://www.sans.org/top25errors/
I was recently tasked with putting together a ping and traceroute feature in an application and like I always do I googled to see if someone had already worked out how to do this. I found a few people who had posted ICMP libraries and so I used one of them and tested and everything seemed to work p...
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Posting this for those that may not have seen the latest post update to 3.5 SP1. Might want to check out this Microsoft article if you are having problems after installing 3.5 SP1.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959209