You can easily access to special directories of windows in C# by using:

Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments;

The same go with other directories

Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop;
Environment.SpecialFolder.History;
…

Instead of writing:

if (idx == 1)
{
result = “Yes”;
}
else
[...]

Here’s a quick little bit of code that shows how to delete records in your database using SubSonic’s Query Tool. I know you can write this is fewer lines of code, but I think this shows a little more clearly what’s going on.

Using trace back to get the size of a specific directory.

A code snippet upload file using FTP. With some tweak, we could also get the percentage out of this.