Calculating Age From DOB

I couldn’t believe there was no native way in .NET to do something alarmingly simple like calculate someone’s age from their date of birth. ...

Extending XmlReader Class: IsEndElement()

Introduction You may find, as I did, the lack of symmetry in the XmlReader Class quite odd. If we look at the NodeType property, which ex...

Automatically Increment Minimum Required Version in a ClickOnce Application

Introduction ClickOnce deployments make publishing .NET applications simple and easy. One nice feature is forcing the user to update to th...

Making Sure Outlook Calendar Reminders Actually Pop-up in Windows 7

Introduction In Windows 7, MS Outlook seems to be horribly bad at popping up calendar reminders when outlook doesn’t have focus. This can ...