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Accessing INI Files in C#

Recently I had the need to access and read in data from the old school style ini file. I was struggling to find the best way to go about doing this, until I came across this blog post by Gerhard Stephan. In it, he describes how to attach to the Windows KERNEL32.dll file and use the Windows functions GetPrivateProfileString and WritePrivateProfileString to read from and write to Windows ini files.

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asp:Textbox – the difference between ReadOnly and Disabled

Again this may be something that is old news to some of you, and perhaps it is to me as well and I had forgotten, but today I was hugely frustrated with .NET seemingly ignoring some perfectly populated fields and the validators reporting that they were empty.

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