The Daily Six Pack: September 23, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: New In C Sharp 6 C# 6.0 What's New, Filip Ekberg Other Using WCF in .NET Native, Immo Landwerth Bing Developer Assistant Beta for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Gallery How much a European city has changed in…

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The Daily Six Pack: March 14, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Google Drive Price Slashed Google slashes Google Drive storage prices to take on Box & Dropbox, Harrison Weber Other Install Google Drive on your computer, Google Podcast: LightSwitch, a Hidden Gem in Visual Studio, Beth…

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The Daily Six Pack: January 17, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: TryParse TryParse Indicates Whether a Parse Operation Will Succeed, Sean Sexton Other I Sold a Chrome Extension but it was a bad decision, Amit Agarwal Microsoft extends updates for Windows XP security products until…

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Creating a Windows Service with a Timer

Okay, you probably all know this, but somewhere someone doesn’t. And I thought it might be a nice article to post. Have you created a Windows Service Timer that isn’t working? The reason for this is because you probably added a Windows Forms Timer to your Service instead of a System Timer. So for future reference, this is what I did:

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