I found a great article on the internet today that explains the System.IO namespace really well.  If you need a solid understanding of how to write c#.net code to handle FileStream, MemoryStream, NetworkStream, CryptoStream, BufferedStream, BinaryReader, BinaryWriter, StreamReader and StreamWriter, StringReader and StringWriter, and TextReader and TextWrite, you really need to start here.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Derk Benisch

I have finally been published!  It's not much, but has certianly helped get my work noticed more on the Internet.  Last month TechNet Magazine did a Spotlight article on the Microsoft Robocopy GUI, which I wrote several years ago in an effort to help simplify a replication project I was working on with the MSN Infrastructure Engineering team at Microsoft.  The app has been downloaded over 12,000 times and climing since the end of Nov. 2006.  If you are intrested in an Advanced GUI wrapper for the Robocopy.exe, please download it, take a look and send me any feedback you might have.  I also have a working space on the GotDotNet website where you can join the growing number of developers / testers that are going to be working on the next release of the tool.

 

--Derk

Welcome to the Windows Technical Soup Blog...

 

My intention of this blog is to share my technical experiences related to the Windows OS.  In my day-to-day job, I work for the Windows Live Search Operations group at Microsoft.  In doing my job I run into many issues that I don't always find a solution for on the Internet.  So as I go, I would love to hear your feedback and opinions on any of the topics that I post.  Thanks for coming by!

 

 

--Derk Benisch