September 2004 Blog Posts
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released patches for both version 1.0 and version 1.1 of the .net framework.
The patches were published via WindowsUpdate and being the good little drone that I am I went off to download them.
V1.1 patched perfectly, but the v1.0 patch just wouldn't take. I didn't worry that much, as it's not doing anything
on the servers any more, but it sat in the back of my mind. Today
Aaron Stebner posted a solution.
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Steve writes
that the msn music store beta has opened. About time too, but as usual it's region limited. Now I realise why, after
spending a long time working with digital music and video getting two labels
owned by the same company to agree on anything is hard enough, without trying to get multiple labels, across multiple
countries to agree. iTunes discovered this and now Microsoft have. It still leaves me without a decent WMA based
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Want to quickly grab a remote web page somewhere using C#? The code snippet below sends a get request to
the URL you specify and returns a string containing the resulting page. If any error occurs it will return an
empty string. You can of course change the catch block to throw any exceptions up to the calling code.
using System.Net;
using System.Text
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