find all listening ports - back to basics

netstat -an |find /i "listening"

open a port from cmd
netsh> add portopening TCP 9353 "xyz"

And Finally we have Fire And Forget Methods.

async reloaded with fire and forget

why was this not possbile until now

and the corresponding WCF implementation...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/endpoint/archive/2010/11/13/simplified-asynchronous-programming-model-in-wcf-with-async-await.aspx

Eliminate if else statements for disabling and enabling controls

if (count > 0)
{
this.control.Enabled = false;
}
else
{
this.control.Enabled = true;
}



// this is 1 line compared to what we have above.
this.control.Enabled = (count <= 0);

DateTime vs DateTimeOffset

if (you are developing applications with globalization in mind)
{
use DateTimeOffset
}
else
{
use dateTime
}