Shows how to convert an object to a byte array using the binary formater and then encoding the resulting byte array to a Base64-encoded System.String.

Today I was asked to look into an interesting task that was keeping busy one of my colleagues for a while. It's such a common task that I'm wondering how come I was never presented with something similar before.Let's use an example to better illustrate the task on hand. Imagine you have a notification system that runs daily and creates a list of different events for what individual users need to be notified. This table represents the notification list resulted from the daily run:UserId        EventId-------------------    1        1    1        2    1        3    2        2    3        2    3        4    3        5    4        2    Now a new requirement comes up: All events will be assigned a priority and the users can only received 2 notifications a day for the events with the highest priority.This table represents our Events and their Priority (the bigger the number the highest is the priority):EventId         Priority--------------------    1                8    2                9    3                10    4  ...

Introducing the SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard

Creating a .NET Custom Control with culture-awareness built-in. This code was originally designed for .NET 1.1 but it also works in 2.0

How to avoid the Thread was being aborted error when calling .net webservices by not exceeding the time-out threshold for an ASP.NET request.

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