On March 10th I'll be giving a presentation at Odense .NET User Group on Scalability & Availability on the Microsoft platform.

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As promised during my TechTalk today at Microsoft Denmark, here are the links to all slides and demo code. Unfortunately you'll not be able to download the VPC's as those total around 30GB.

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What does Flash, upload, cookies, IIS load balancing and cookies have to do with each others? More than I'd like :(

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Obtaining the movie height & weidth of a Flash file is an easy task using the swfdump tool that comes as part of the swftools package. Here's an example of how to invoke swfdump from C# and read out the height & width of a given Flash file.

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As little children we've all been taught that it's better to program defensively than relying on exceptions being thrown. However, sometimes it's preferably to just hope for the best and catch exceptions if they happen.

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All of the following samples are based on the following table:

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Access denied errors are not uncommon when deploying new websites / features that interact with the filesystem. While it might work in local testing, it suddenly doesn't anymore when deployed. Using Process Monitor I'll show how to easily debug these issues.

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One of my earlier blog posts, and the all time most popular one, was about how to make URL rewriting on IIS 7 work like IIS 6. While my method did provide a means to the goal, it's humiliatingly far from what I should've done. Since the old post is still the most visited post on my blog I feel obligated to write a followup on how to do proper url rewriting in IIS 7.

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On numerous occations I've had a need for synchronizing directories of files & subdirectories. I've used it for synchronizing work files from my stationary PC to my laptop in the pre-always-on era (today I use SVN for almost all files that needs to be in synch). Recently I needed to implement a very KISS backup solution that simply synchronized two directories once a week for offsite storing of the backup data.

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Writing a calculator is a simple task - just add nine buttons labeled 1-9 and add a plus and minus button and we're almost good to go. In this entry I'm going to write a calculator called SimpleCalc that does not have a GUI, instead it'll take in an arbitrary expression and calculate the results of it. The input I'll use as my immediate goal is the following:

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