There are times where you require web methods like Server.HtmlDecode and Server.HtmlEncode for use within your business layer. To get access to these methods one needs to firstly add the System.Web reference to your application...

Windows Mobile Device Centre has known synchronisation problems where it stops recognising a PDA. After struggling with this problem for quite some time I found a work around that solves this issue.

Microsoft have made it increasingly more difficult for honest Vista x64 users to freely use their paid for software. They are enforcing driver signature and integrity checks which are limiting us from loading software and patches that we desire. Over the last few weeks I've investigated the current methods for disabling integrity and driver checks will provide you with the means to disable these checks.

If your Vista x64 system is up to date and Xlight FTP no longer works, the problem is related to Microsoft's Updates enforcing the use of signed drivers. To get it working again, uninstall the following three updates:

This is a fix for those of you experiencing slow performance in Windows Vista due to explorer.exe using 100% or high CPU load. This problem is related to the new Vista start menu being configured by default to allow indexing of all files.

Displayed here is a quick lookup comparison between Visual Studio's regular expression and that of the standard Regex syntax.

Asp.NET 2 has a new class System.Web.VirtualPathUtility which allows you to resolve relative url's without the need of working within a UserControl or Page. This is especially useful if you need to resolve relative url's from within a data layer or object interface.

I've included a quick "DateTime.ToString Format" lookup. Very useful if you're having trouble remembering 40+ DateTime format specifiers.