Articles by Scott Dorman (Articles: 7, Technical Blogs: 5)

Explains how to use managed code to detect which version of Internet Information Services (IIS) is installed and if ASP or ASP.NET is registered.

A simple solution for binding an enum to a UI control using data binding.

Explains how to properly implement the IDisposable interface, the Dispose Pattern, and deterministic finalization.

Explains the new SafeHandle class and Constrained Execution Regions, and shows how to use them.

Explains how to use managed code to detect which .NET Framework versions and service packs are installed.

A simple to use resumable file downloader class that provides progress feedback for .NET 2.0 or .NET 1.1

The accepted social etiquette for posting in the CodeProject discussion forums.

Attribute programming has a lot of benefits and, when done correctly, can greatly simplify the amount of code that you need to write. One drawback to using attributes is that the code required to retrieve a custom attribute from a type is a bit cumbersome and is very repetitious. Given a type, the

Almost two years ago, I wrote about a Visual Studio macro that allows you to change the Target Framework version of all projects in a solution. If you don’t know, the Target Framework version is what tells the compiler which version of the .NET Framework to compile against (more information is avail

Visual Studio, .NET Framework, and language versions

There have been several questions on StackOverflow about how to determine if a type is defined in the .NET Framework or is a third-party or custom type. Based on the answers provided to these questions, this can be accomplished using some reflection to retrieve the public key token of the Technor

Here is a quick summary of what I've found so far for Windows 7