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The .NET Micro Framework: A First Look
Rating: Bradley Jones - 09/20/2007 Take a look at how you now can use your C# skills to create an embedded application. No hardware is required to get started!
State Machine Workflow with WinWF
Rating: none Mark Strawmyer - 04/11/2007 Discover the power behind state machine workflow and how it can be used to more closely match business and other processes.
The Ins and Outs of Dependency Properties and Routed Events in WPF
Rating: Sahil Malik - 03/16/2007 Get an introduction to dependency properties and routed events in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), two extremely important topics in WPF—especially if you want to write custom elements.
Clipboard Ring Application
Rating: Mohammed Habeeb - 03/12/2007 Learn about the use of the Windows clipboard via a clipboard ring utility. It also illustrates a Yahoo! messenger-like popup alert feature.
Looking at the WCF Windows Communication Foundation
Rating: Jayant Kulkarni - 02/20/2007 Discover Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Microsoft introduced this technology, which is a part of .NET 3.0, to make your life easy when it comes to building distributed applications.
Building a Custom Activity in Windows Workflow Foundation
Rating: none Mark Strawmyer - 02/07/2007 Activities are the building blocks of workflows. When you use Windows Workflow Foundation, you likely will want to build custom activities to fit your tasks.
.NET Tip: Creating a Collection of Your Objects
Rating: none Eric Smith - 12/18/2006 The generic collection introduced with .NET 2.0 allows you to create collections of your objects without having to design a new class.
Meet DependencyObject and DependencyProperty, the .NET Data-Binding Boosters
Rating: none Chad Campbell - 12/13/2006 Using the DependencyObject and the DependencyProperty in conjunction enables .NET developers to expose some of the powerful features of the Windows Presentation Foundation. Learn how to implement data binding with them.
Get Ready for Windows Workflow Foundation
Rating: none Mark Strawmyer - 11/22/2006 Microsoft will introduce the much-anticipated Windows Workflow Foundation (WinWF) as part of the .NET Framework 3. Get the lowdown on WinWF and learn how to build a sequential workflow with it.
.NET Framework 3.0 Released
Rating: none Bradley Jones - 11/08/2006 The current version of the .NET Framework is 3.0.
ASP.NET Tip: Binding to Alternate Data Sources
Rating: none Eric Smith - 10/16/2006 Sure, you can bind database-related objects to grids and repeaters, but what about binding your own objects to grids and lists? Learn how to build a class that can be bound to a Repeater without involving any databases.
.NET Tip: Run ASP.NET 1.1 with ASP.NET 2.0 on Windows 2003
Rating: none Eric Smith - 06/09/2006 The .NET Framework 2.0 gets very fussy when you try to run both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 sites in the same application pool. Learn how to support both versions on the same Windows 2003 machine.
Common Type System (CTS): One Platform to Rule Them All
Rating: none Joe Duffy - 05/10/2006 The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specification executes code inside the bounds of a well-defined type system, called the Common Type System (CTS).
Protecting Visual Basic .NET Source Code and Applications
Rating: Hannes du Preez - 04/26/2006 Discover the secrets of Obfuscation, Cryptography, and technologies used to protect your Visual Basic .NET
applications, once distributed.
Accessing Directory Services in .NET Framework 2.0
Rating: none Mark Strawmyer - 02/13/2006 The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 has made several improvements to the System.DirectoryServices namespace. They expand your ability to interact with your enterprise Active Directory.
What Anonymous Methods Might Look Like in VB.NET
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 06/23/2005 Anonymous methods haven't shown up in the current beta version of VB.NET 2.0. Paul Kimmel predicts that they will in upcoming releases and shows what they might look like.
Type Converters, Your Friendly Helpers!
Rating: none Klaus Salchner - 05/04/2005 Any time you develop a Web form or windows form using the Visual Studio .NET designer or use the view state architecture of ASP.NET, you rely on the help of a type converter.
Using Regular Expressions to Search and Replace Text
Rating: none Tom Archer - MSFT - 04/07/2005 When you deal with user input or text files, you usually have to search through that input and replace literals, special characters, or patterns. Learn how to perform this common task via the .NET regular expressions classes.
Code Access Security with Microsoft .NET Framework, Part 2
Rating: Mark Strawmyer - 03/10/2005 The Microsoft .NET Framework provides imperative and declarative ways to check for proper permissions prior to attempting an action. Learn how and when to use them.
The .NET Architecture
Rating: Wiley Publishing - 09/21/2004 Learn the basic concepts of the .NET Framework architecture from this sample chapter from .NET Security Programming.
Using Lists and Collections in .NET
Rating: none Mark Strawmyer - 09/03/2004 The .NET Framework provides native support for lists and collections. Learn the concept behind these classes and why they are especially important with the planned inclusion of generics in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.
Date Validation Using the .NET Globalization Classes
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 06/30/2004 Sometimes the answer to a common problem is very easy once you know where to look. In this week's installment of the ".NET Tips & Techniques" column, learn how the Globalization classes can make validating any date format a snap.
Completing the NUnit Project Template for .NET, Part 2
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 04/27/2004 This article completes the project template by demonstrating how to modify the supporting script to add a reference to import the nunit.framework.dll, how to define the wizard launching file, add the VSDir file entries, and we will take our new test library, created by the template, for a spin around the block.
Working with Row State Information
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 03/23/2004 The ADO.NET classes support the ability to search, sort, and filter data once it's been retrieved. In fact, being able to perform these operations against your disconnected data without making continual round trips to the server is one of the strongest arguments for using disconnected data to begin with.
Remote Scripting, WebService Behaviour, and Script Call Back
Rating: none sndshreeman - 04/27/2005 Learn about the Calling server method from a client script and script callback: the different technologies adopted and the pros and cons of each.
Arithmetic
TIP: Statistics
Rating: Eran Aharonovich - 06/08/2006 Learn a few helpful statistical functions.
Operator Overloading for Mathematical Libraries
Rating: VijayaSekhar Gullapalli - 01/20/2005 Discover the concept of operator overloading in C# and its application in mathematical libraries.
[Updated] Working with Math Routines in C#
Rating: Bradley Jones - 03/22/2004 Basic math operators—such as plus, minus, and modulus—can get you only so far. It is only a matter of time before you find that you need more robust math routines.
Assemblies
Using the .NET Fusion API to Manipulate the GAC
Rating: Nick Wienholt - 11/03/2006 Fusion is the code name for the .NET Framework sub-system responsible for locating and loading assemblies. It comes in handy for C++ developers who are working with the GAC.
Assemblies in .NET
Rating: sameer_sood - 05/11/2006 Learn how to use C# to create shared .NET assemblies.
How to Use Attributes in C#
Rating: Ali Sufyan - 04/21/2004 Learn about the usage of attributes in C# and calling it from assemblies. It covers the whole scenerio of all types of custom attributes.
Simplify Application Deployment with Registration-Free COM
Rating: none Nick Wienholt - 08/14/2006 In the days before .NET, COM's dependency on the Registry and its backward compatibility issues were the Achilles' heels of Win32 development. Learn a technique for deploying your existing COM components without the pain traditionally associated with the Registry.
Enumerating Exchange Contacts in .NET
Rating: none Ben Rush - 07/21/2005 Through COM Interop, learn how to program against the Exchange Store for Exchange Server 2003.
Extensible OLE Property Pages in .NET
Rating: Robert Simpson - 11/03/2004 Implementing and utilizing extensible property sheets in your .NET classes has never been easier.
Using .NET Class Libraries from VB6 Clients
Rating: none Andreas Wieberneit - 03/24/2004 How to expose a .NET class library, including methods, properties, and events to a VB6 client.
Debugging and Error Handling
.NET Tip: Throwing Custom Exceptions
Rating: none Jay Miller - 10/12/2007 Use custom exceptions to add information that will be more meaningful to your users when exceptions occur. And, you still can maintain all the information from the original exception.
.NET Tip: Managing Resources with the Using Statement
Rating: none Jay Miller - 08/13/2007 Take control of the lifetime of your objects. Release your object's resources on your schedule, not when the CLR determines they are no longer needed.
Exceptional Error Handling with BizTalk 2006 and InfoPath
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 01/19/2007 Human intervention for error handling often requires business knowledge as well as the right tools. In BizTalk, InfoPath and failed message routing can be the foundation for building these tools.
Redirecting Configuration with a Custom Provider
Rating: none Stefan Schackow - 09/27/2006 Explores this helpful technique presented by Wrox author Stefan Schackow for working in ASP.NET in multiple environments from testing, to staging, to live, to backup servers.
SOS from Your Production Environment
Rating: none Klaus Salchner - 04/11/2005 All the best software development practices and testing efforts in the world cannot guarantee that there are no intermittent or unexplainable application issues when in production. Worst case scenario being application hangs and crashes. This article shows how to take dumps of .NET applications and analyze them. This helps developers to understand the issue and find the faulty code.
Perform Exception Handling in .NET Exceptionally
Rating: Mark Strawmyer - 11/10/2004 This month, .NET Nuts & Bolts covers exception handling, examining what exceptions are and why they are important. You'll learn how to use them, how to create custom exceptions, and how to apply common best practices.
Using Custom Exception Handlers to Restart Your Application
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 05/03/2004 One often-overlooked ability of .NET is that you can create a custom exception handler that will allow you to catch all unhandled exceptions thrown during the execution of your application.
Events and Delegates
Using Delegates to Interchange Information Between Siblings of a Parent Form
Rating: Mehedi Shams - 12/03/2007 Discover how to interchange information between sibling forms of a parent form. In many cases, especially in MDI applications, you need to interchange information between child forms that are instantiated by the same parent. In such cases, delegates are a suitable way to exchange information.
MFC Controls for Vista
Rating: none Nick Wienholt - 09/04/2007 Microsoft Foundation Classes continue to play an important role for C++ developers. Discover how to upgrade an existing application with MFC 9's full support for the Windows Vista look-and-feel.
Understanding Relaxed Delegates in VB
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 03/09/2007 Microsoft relaxed delegates in VB 8.0 to provide more options for binding event handlers to events. Some further relaxation is in store with the upcoming VB 9.0 release. Find out how it works.
Events and Delegates in Depth
Rating: Jayant Kulkarni - 12/08/2006 Learn the details about events and delegates. You'll also read about the .NET 2.0 features for delegates.
Using the New Extension Methods Feature in C# 3.0
Rating: none Vipul Patel - 03/20/2006 Extension methods provide a new mechanism for invoking static methods on object instances. Although they behave similarly to static methods, they offer greater convenience.
Remoting Chat Application
Rating: Jayant Kulkarni - 08/11/2005 The application is designed using .NET remoting framework 1.0. .NET remoting provides a very powerful framework for the distributed application.
.NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET, Part 3
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 03/07/2005 Learn the ins and outs of .NET remoting and event handling in VB .NET with an examination of the supporting code in a simple chat client and server application, including the use of the command, observer, singleton, and factory patterns.
Basic Event Handling in C#
Rating: T.H. Bak - 01/11/2005 A simple illustration of using event handling and delegates for a new service.
Working With Asynchronous .NET Web Service Clients
Rating: Kenn Scribner - 09/16/2004 Having trouble using the asynchronous call mechanisms built into .NET? Let Kenn Scribner clarify it for you and make your programming tasks (at least as related to asynchronous processing) a little easier.
[Updated] An "Outlook Like" Control
Rating: none Adel Eddin - 10/15/2007 Discover a control that behaves like the Tab control but has visual cues that look more like the Navigation panel in Outlook. You are can add as many tabs as you want.
[Updated] Creating Your Own Drawing Application with Visual Basic.NET, Part 2
Rating: Hannes du Preez - 03/27/2007 Continuing from Part One, you will: Include the capability to first draw, then fill the drawn objects. Include a marquee while drawing, just so you have a visible cue of the diameters of the current drawing. Refine the triangle logic.
IconLib: Icons Unfolded (MultiIcon and Windows Vista supported)
Rating: CastorTiu - 12/06/2006 Learn about a library to manipulate icons and icons libraries with support to create, load, save, import and export icons in ico, icl, dll, exe, cpl and src format (Windows Vista icons supported).
Creating an Interactive 3D World in C#.NET
Rating: Fatima Ahmed - 02/06/2006 The advent of new features in DirectX have given a boost to the way 3D applications are coded. See how easy it is to create a 3D scene with DirectX 9.0 API and a 3D Engine.
Uploading Images to a Web Site Is Harder Than You Think
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 08/22/2005 Uploading images in Web applications isn't nearly as simple as you may think. Learn the mechanics—and frustrations—of permitting image uploads, saving images, and rendering images.
[Updated] The Mists of Avalon
Rating: Guido Stercken-Sorrenti - 07/25/2005 Learn about "Avalon," the exciting new presentation subsystem of the upcoming Windows platforms. After an introduction to declarative drawing and XAML, you'll use XAMLPad to get a first taste of Avalon programming.
IL
[Updated] MSIL Tutorial
Rating: Alex F - 06/01/2004 Managed C++, C#, VB .NET, and other .NET programming languages are compiled to IL code (or MSIL). Learning MSIL gives you the chance to understand some things that are generally hidden. While you never need to write programs in MSIL directly, in some difficult cases it is very useful to open the MSIL code and see how things are done.
Internet
FTPS vs. SFTP: What to Choose
Rating: Eugene Mayevski - 10/11/2007 FTP over SSL (FTPS) and SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) are the most often used and confused protocols for secure file transfer. Learn about both of them and evaluate their pros and cons.
Enabling Internet Explorer for Debugging ASP.NET AJAX
Rating: none Dan Whalin - 09/13/2007 Wrox author and Microsoft MVP Dan Wahlin shows how to use Internet Explorer with Visual Studio for JavaScript debugging in ASP.NET AJAX.
Creating an Ajax Search Widget
Rating: none Jeremy McPeak - 08/11/2006 See how easy it is to integrate a search widget on your site using Ajax
with this detailed example from Professional Ajax author Nicholas C.
Zakas.
XMLHttp Requests for Ajax
Rating: none Nicholas C. Zakas - 05/12/2006 Professional AJAX author Nicolas Zakas shows the benefits as well as some of the disadvantages of using HTTP requests in your applications.
Displaying RSS Items with C# and ASP.NET
Rating: Bradley Jones - 11/18/2005 It is painless to display RSS feed items using C# and ASP.NET 2.0. A simple method is provided that accepts an RSS Feed URL.
IP Address Comparison and Conversion in C#
Rating: Lowe*Software - 10/14/2005 When using .NET and C#, IP Address information is stored in the System.Net.IPAddress class, which provides no method for comparing IP addresses except for equality. Learn to circumvent that problem.
Product Overload: Microsoft
Rating: Bradley Jones - 09/16/2005 Are you missing Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC)? If so, you'll still want to make sure you keep up on all the announcements.
Your Free Search Engine: Microsoft Indexing Server
Rating: none Klaus Salchner - 05/18/2005 Learn how to set up Microsoft's powerful indexing and searching engine, Microsoft Indexing Server, to search its index from within your Web or file-based applications.
Mastering Internet Programming on Mobile Devices: First Steps
Rating: Alex Gusev - 11/02/2004 Learn how to create applications that may connect to the Internet or an intranet. Take a look at typical scenarios that often occur in programming practice.
.NET and XML: Part 2—XSD Schemas
Rating: Klaus Salchner - 07/28/2004 Second of a series of articles that evaluates how well .NET supports XML and its surrounding standards. This article provides a good overview of XSD schemas.
.NET and XML: Part 1—XPath Queries
Rating: Klaus Salchner - 07/19/2004 This is the first of a series of articles that evaluates how well .NET supports XML and its surrounding standards. This article provides a good overview of the power of XPath queries.
Making Windows Forms Pop Under
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 04/28/2004 Learn the steps required to shuttle pop-under windows behind all other windows in the z-order.
Write Macro Code Generators with VS 2005
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 07/27/2005 You can employ macros to write code for you. Learn how to use the macro engine in VS 2005 to write a code generator that implements the refactoring Encapsulate Field for VB.NET.
Prime Programming Proficiency, Part 2: VS.NET Macros
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 07/30/2004 Paul Kimmel introduces the VS.NET Macros IDE and gets you started on implementing the LineCounter tool. By using VS.NET's extensibility object model in conjunction with macros, you can automate a wide variety of tasks to extend and customize VS.NET.
Patterns
Let Your Parser Go for the GOLD
Rating: Victor Volkman - 07/19/2007 Learn how the GOLD Parser system can help you develop fast and efficient parsers in any programming language environment, including C++, Java, and .NET just to name a few. GOLD is a freeware parser generator that includes a DFA and LALR parser you can include in your app with unlimited licensing. GOLD is a great alternative to GNU Bison, which locks you into the C++ environment.
Smart Client: Composite UI Application Block
Rating: none Mark Strawmyer - 07/10/2007 Learn about the CAB at a very high level. With it you can create Windows
Forms-based applications that have sophisticated capability without being as
sophisticated to create.
Server-Based AJAX for Enterprise Applications
Rating: none Guy Peled - 05/16/2007 Sever-based AJAX is a new edition to the AJAX framework arena that may just be the perfect solution for AJAX enterprise adaptation.
Voice Recognition in VB .NET
Rating: none Richard Newcombe - 01/19/2007 Now that you understand how to use voice recognition in VB6, look into using it in VB .NET.
Classic Parsing with Flex and Bison
Rating: Victor Volkman - 11/08/2006 Its ease of use combined with its low footprint and high degree of portability make Bison and Flex ideal for rapidly developing useful parsers for today's challenging translation applications.
Go Inside C# 3.0's Type Inference Process
Rating: none Vipul Patel - 04/26/2006 When a generic method is called without specifying type arguments, C# 3.0 uses a type inference process to infer the arguments. Find out how it works.
Understanding Basic Regular Expressions Patterns
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 03/01/2005 For programmers who are new to regular expressions, Tom Archer presents some basic metacharacters and explains how to use them to perform simple pattern matching with regular expressions.
Invoking .NET Events from Native C++
Rating: darwen - 10/14/2004 This article demonstrates a design pattern that can be used to implement events raised from native code without an explicit raise function on the managed class.
Disposal at the End of Function Scope (not yet reviewed)
Rating: DaveR1000 - 08/27/2004 This sample will allow for automatically calling dispose on objects that were requested to be disposed at the end of function scope.
Implement Common Creational Design Patterns
Rating: Mark Strawmyer - 07/07/2004 Explore some common creational design patterns and learn how to implement them using Microsoft .NET.
Performance
.NET Tip: Data Encapsulation: Using Properties Instead of Public Variables
Rating: none Jay Miller - 09/14/2007 Here is encapsulation, one of the very basic tenets of object-oriented programming. Using properties instead of public variables helps insulate the users of your class from change, provides you more flexibility, and will ease maintenance of your class.
Get Jagged!
Rating: Bill Hatfield - 08/22/2007 Super-charge your .NET application performance by implementing jagged arrays.
Implementing Extension Methods in VB.NET
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 05/25/2007 Extension Methods permit programmers to add behavior to a class without creating a wrapper. Here, you will learn how to implement Extension Methods in Visual Basic and .NET.
Windows Forms Tricks You May Have Missed
Rating: none Mark Strawmyer - 10/23/2006 Here are several lesser-known tips and tricks that will assist you in building fully functional and well performing Windows Forms applications.
CLR Method Internals (.NET 2.0)
Rating: none Joe Duffy - 04/28/2006 Method calls are the bread and butter of C# and VB programming, but a lot of moving pieces go into making that all work.
Implement Caching to Give Your .NET Applications a Performance Boost
Rating: none Thiru Thangarathinam - 11/15/2005 Caching can dramatically improve the performance of a database-driven .NET application. The Enterprise Library caching block encapsulates the plumbing code required to implement caching in a reusable block.
Take Advantage of Isolated Storage with .NET
Rating: none Mike Amundsen - 11/03/2004 Learn the basics of the .NET runtime's isolated storage function. Then, see how to use it to create a utility class that makes reading and writing user-specific application data safe and easy.
Performance Counters Determine Application Performance
Rating: none Mark Strawmyer - 05/25/2004 Determine the overall performance of your applications and diagnose those pesky "undocumented features" with performance counters. Learn the basics of deploying and using features in your instrumentation.
System Information
Garbage Collector
Rating: Michael.Heliso - 09/12/2007 Any program uses resources. These resources can be files, database resources, network connections, memory buffers, objects, and so forth. Learn how to allocate memory for these resources.
Determining Whether a DLL or EXE Is a Managed Component
Rating: kirants - 07/25/2007 Learn how to check whether or not a component is a .NET managed component. Also, learn to get other information, such as dependent assemblies, from the metadata using Microsoft APIs and related COM interfaces.
.NET Tip: Searching System Event Logs for Valuable Info
Rating: none Eric Smith - 08/16/2006 System event logs can provide valuable information, but manually finding the worthwhile details in them can be difficult. Learn the easy, automated ways .NET provides for reading and searching event logs.
.NET Tip: Logging Exceptions to the Event Log
Rating: none Eric Smith - 08/02/2006 The system event log is a good place to store information about your .NET application, and writing entries to the event log is fairly straightforward. You can easily add the code for it to a utility class.
Who Connects to Your Computer?
Rating: akomarov - 05/03/2006 Learn about monitoring the Windows event log for user logon events.
A Preview of What's New in C# 3.0
Rating: Sahil Malik - 11/04/2005 Get a sneak peek at some of the major language enhancements Microsoft has in store for C# 3.0.
Form Fade In/Out Effect and Notification Window
Rating: Abhinaba Basu - 07/08/2005 Learn about a form that can be used to give a fade in/out effect to any form and especifically to notification/alert windows.
Threads
[Updated] Invoking Command Lines Programmatically
Rating: Thomas Weller - 12/28/2004 The CommandLineProcess class provides a handy way for executing a command line and receiving the resulting text output. No console window is needed.
Tips & Tricks
.NET Tip: Display All Fields and Properties of an Object
Rating: none Jay Miller - 11/30/2007 Learn how to display all of the fields and properties of any object. By using a little reflection, you can expose the internals of your objects.
FreeDOM (Programming)
Rating: none VectorX - 11/12/2007 Learn about FreeDOM (Free Document Object Model), a web development technique used to create event-driven web applications. FreeDOM is designed to overcome the limitations of stateless HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transmissions.
.NET Tip: Passing a Variable Number of Arguments to a Method
Rating: none Jay Miller - 11/09/2007 Have you ever not known how many parameters a method would need to accept? The C# params keyword lets you pass a variable number of arguments to a method.
Speeding Up .NET
Rating: Bill Hatfield - 07/31/2007 .NET programmers can become a little lazy when it comes to performance optimization. Discover a few easy tips to keep performance at a peak!
XSD Tutorial: XML Schemas For Beginners
Rating: Simon Sprott - 05/24/2007 This five-part article gives a basic overview of the building blocks underlying XML Schemas, showing how and when to use them.
Integrating .NET and SAP 101
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 04/04/2007 SAP integration with Windows is possible and basic operations aren't too difficult but can be challenging. Here you will find an opener for VB.NET programmers who might be working on an SAP implementation and integration with non-SAP systems.
[Updated] Developing For Windows Vista
Rating: none Bradley Jones - 04/03/2007 There's a lot more to Vista than the .NET 3.0 framework. The new OS offers interesting and useful new features for developers-and DevX has rounded them up for you.
Creating VB.NET Public Methods That Accept Optional Arguments
Rating: none Bill Hatfield - 03/28/2007 Learn to provide flexibility in the ways your public method can be called by using Visual Basic .NET's three different approaches for specifying optional parameters.
VB .NET Tip: Assembly Deployment Best Practices
Rating: none Bill Hatfield - 03/07/2007 If maintaining your code is important to you, take note of these few assembly deployment best practices.
.NET Tip: Exiting a Try/Catch Block
Rating: Eric Smith - 02/16/2007 If you use a return statement within a Try/Catch block, there's a behavior you need to be aware of in your code.
.NET Tip: Comparing Strings Safely
Rating: none Eric Smith - 12/11/2006 The .NET Framework's built-in comparison functions don't handle nulls properly. Learn a couple of functions to take care of this for you.
What ADO.NET Teaches Us about Custom Objects
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 11/29/2006 Why do so many .NET programmers prefer to write custom objects instead of using ADO.NET objects? More control, for one. Read on to find out the other reasons.
Testing with Mock Objects
Rating: none Dan Gartner - 10/24/2006 Mock objects can be created to act as stand-ins for actual implementations in order to isolate unit tests. This makes it easier to detect defects during development. Discover how to create your own mock objects using NMock 2.0.
.NET Tip: Creating and Using Your Own Events
Rating: none Eric Smith - 09/20/2006 Simply registering for a custom event and running your code when the event occurs makes managing the sequence of events within a Web page easier.
.NET Tip: Create a Custom Configuration Section in .NET 2.0
Rating: none Eric Smith - 06/30/2006 Creating a custom configuration section in your configuration class will make it more modular and not reliant on the generic appSettings section in the configuration file.
Satellite Assemblies
Rating: Jayant Kulkarni - 02/09/2006 Discover what satellite assemblies are, how to create them, and how to use satellite assemblies with strong named assemblies with very simple and small pieces of code chunks.
Refactoring VB in Visual Studio 2005
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 12/21/2005 Refactoring can improve the internal structure of your VB code without changing its external behavior. Use it to remove the subjectivity of what is good code and what is less-good code.
Programming with the My Feature
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 11/21/2005 Part code-generating factory, part proxy pattern, and part façade pattern, the My feature makes VB.NET a little simpler to use by acting as a cue for the VB compiler to substitute it with more verbose code.
Time Management Tips for Developers
Rating: Alexander Fedorenko - 09/09/2005 Learn about a few time management principles that can make our lives more successful and improve software and Web development.
Script CallBack In ASP.NET 1.1
Rating: sndshreeman - 05/23/2005 Learn how to implement the script callback features in ASP.NET 1.1 using XMLHTTP.
[Updated] Console with a WinForm
Rating: Wilfried Mestdagh - 04/13/2005 Often, you need a Console window in a WinForm application for easy debugging or logging purposes. Learn how to do this.
.NET Regular Expressions and Captures
Rating: none Tom Archer - MSFT - 03/30/2005 Learn the subtle differences between groups and captures in .NET regular expressions and how to suppress capture information when your applications don't need it.
[Updated] FileSystemWatcher—Why Does It Stop Working?
Rating: Zeb - 02/15/2005 Ever wondered why, when using FileSystemWatcher over a network drive, it seems to forget what it's supposed to do? This article aims to explain the problem and show you how to solve it.
Writing Verifiably Type-Safe Code in Visual C++
Rating: Nick Wienholt - 12/07/2004 In the first two releases of Visual Studio.NET, writing verifiably type-safe code with C++ went from impossible to extremely difficult. Thankfully, Visual C++.NET 2005 offers a much better story on verification than the current compiler.
How To Swap Top-Level Forms
Rating: Marc Clifton - 07/12/2004 Learn to implement a specialized ApplicationContext that allows the application to close the current top-level form and replace it with a different one.
Forcing Garbage Collection in .NET
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 04/21/2004 Discover the methods for forcing the Garbage Collector (GC) to go into
action!
Placing Your C# Application in the System Tray
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 04/07/2004 Learn the steps involved in specifying that an application is to be minimized to the Tray, how to allow the user to restore the application by double-clicking the icon, and how to create and respond to a System Tray icon's context menu.
Calculating the Next Working Day in .NET
Rating: none Karl Moore - 03/11/2004 Sometimes you don't just want to add a certain number of days to a date; you want to take working days into account.
Persistence of Window State and Appearance for .NET Applications
Rating: none Alexander Fedorenko - 03/05/2004 The process of building professional desktop applications includes many hidden tasks, such as the persistence of the window state and appearance. This will introduce additional accessibility for such applications. Learn a simple approach to do so.
Tools and 3rd Party
[Updated] XML Data Binding
Rating: Simon Sprott - 07/17/2007 XML Data Binding allows you to manipulate an XML document via a set of simple objects. Learn about the generation of these objects, and see a summary of the existing products on the market.
DocMounter Help File Builder
Rating: none 10Tec - 03/20/2007 Tool for creating MS Visual Studio XML documentation files. These files can be used in Visual Studio, and to get the modern help using such tools as NDoc and SandCastle.
[Updated] RFID Programming Made Simple and Cheap
Rating: Bradley Jones - 12/07/2006 Using RFID hardware and incorporating RFID tag information into your applications can really be quite simple. See what can be done with less than $100 and no more than a few dozen lines of code.
Pirin: .NET Solution Generation Tool
Rating: none Petar Shomov - 12/07/2006 Learn about a tool that helps generate customized Visual Studio 2003/2005 solutions.
Multithreaded Programming Using CSP.NET
Rating: none Martin Nebelong Olsen - 09/05/2006 Read a short introduction to multithreaded programming with CSP.NET, which is a simple and intuitive alternative to standard thread programming.
JavaServer Faces and ASP.NET - A Side by Side Look
Rating: Michael Klaene - 12/23/2005 Take a look at a high-level comparison of two popular technologies available to web application developers - JavaServer Faces (JSF) and ASP.NET.
Are You Confused Yet?
Rating: Bradley Jones - 10/27/2005 Editorial: In the ever rampant word of technology and changes, it is easy to get confused. Consider C# and what is being discussed in the market...
Create and Edit Office Documents with .NET
Rating: Dino Esposito - 05/04/2005 Get a jump on the growing need to create and edit Office documents (mostly Word and Excel documents) programmatically from .NET applications. Dino Esposito demonstrates two approaches.
Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005 Released
Rating: Bradley Jones - 04/17/2005 Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005 is now available for download for MSDN subscribers. Learn how you can get it too.
Price of Visual Studio 2005 Announced
Rating: none Bradley Jones - 03/22/2005 Microsoft has announced pricing on the Visual Studio 2005 product line.
"Indigo" CTP Released Today
Rating: none Bradley Jones - 03/16/2005 Microsoft released the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of their next-generation Web-Services technology, "Indigo," today.
[Updated] Writing Your Own GPS Applications: Part I
Rating: Jon Person - 12/29/2004 What is it that GPS applications need to be good enough to handle in-car navigation? Also, how does the process of interpreting GPS data actually work? This two-part series will cover both topics and give you the skills you need to write a commercial-grade GPS application that works with a majority of GPS devices in the industry today.
How to Integrate Google Searches into Your Application
Rating: Klaus Salchner - 12/06/2004 Learn how to leverage Google's Internet search capabilities from within your application through Google's web service API. Complex query terms and filtering capabilities assure relevancy of the search results to your application needs.
Simplified Development Tools—The Microsoft Express Products
Rating: Bradley Jones - 06/29/2004 Microsoft expands Visual Studio and SQL Server to the non-programmers, hobbyists, and students with simplified, low-cost to no-cost versions.
Go Virtual with Your Development
Rating: Klaus Salchner - 06/28/2004 Learn you can use Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to reduce complexities and costs from your development and test cycles. This article shows how you can run multiple virtual machines on your physical machine, whether on your desktop or on your server.
Mobile/PocketPC Development Jump Start
Rating: Bradley Jones - 06/22/2004 Learn to start developing for the PocketPC and other mobile devices using Visual Studio .NET 2003.
Differential Development, Part 1
Rating: Eric Litovsky - 04/20/2004 Make changes to any part of your application design at any point of your development lifecycle without breaking the build or re-writing the application.
An Overview of Microsoft's Whitehorse
Rating: Mickey Williams - 03/23/2004 Having enterprise development problems? Discover Whitehorse, a set of modeling tools included in the next release of Visual Studio .NET (code-named Whidbey).
Visual Studio .NET Add-Ins
Lambda Expressions and Currying in VB9
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 11/19/2007 C++ programmers aren't the only ones who can write code so obtuse that it's nearly indecipherable. Now, VB9 programmers can compete with obscure code by using Lambda Expressions and Currying. But, is this a good thing? Explore Lambda Expressions and Currying, but the jury is still out whether or not currying is a good thing. It's definitely cool.
Data Driven Testing with Visual Studio Team Suite
Rating: none Dan Gartner - 09/22/2006 Learn how Visual Studio Team Suite (VSTS) seamlessly integrates the development environment with a suite of robust testing products that make developers more efficient when testing their applications.
Extending Visual Studio 2005
Rating: Vijay Mehta - 04/24/2006 Discover the fundamentals of the Visual Studio package and create your first Visual Studio 2005 Add-in.
Enterprise Library 2.0: The Logging Application Block
Rating: none Vijay Mehta - 01/24/2006 Investigate some basic logging scenarios, explain and define some of the required terminology, and take the first steps to more efficient logging.
Using Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2005
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 05/16/2005 Think .NET code snippets are just about dragging and dropping some reusable code into the toolbox? Guess again. Code snippets in Visual Studio 2005 are far more useful. Find out why overlooking them would be a mistake.
Creating Installer Patches with MSI 3.0
Rating: Joseph Poozhikunnel - 04/26/2005 Today, it is common to have software patch releases due to various reasons. Discover the steps needed to create a patch using MSI 3.0.
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Now Available! Bradley L. Jones - 04/17/2005 Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005 is now available for download for MSDN subscribers. Learn how you can get it too.
Create Your Own Project Item Templates in VS 2005
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 04/15/2005 Visual Studio 2005 builds on the flexibility of XML to condense the process of creating templates. Paul Kimmel demonstrates how you can take advantage of this function.
Automate the Process of Documenting Your Code
Rating: Klaus Salchner - 12/07/2004 Find out about the documentation capabilities of the Visual Studio .NET IDE. Learn how to improve the productivity within your development team and automate the generation of help files.
C++ Language Changes for Visual Studio 2005
Rating: Kate Gregory - 06/11/2004 Take a look at some of the C++ language changes awaiting you in the next Visual Studio version.
Speech Recognition and Notification Applications in Longhorn
Rating: none Jason Nadal - 06/09/2004 Learn about two Longhorn technologies, recognizers in speech applications and the tile element in Windows GUI applications, that Microsoft provides to improve user experience.
Deploy Windows Applications with Visual Studio.NET, Part 1
Rating: Thiru Thangarathinam - 05/17/2004 This first of a two-article series discusses the .NET features for deploying Windows applications onto the end user's machine. Discover the different types of deployment options Visual Studio.NET provides and learn how to implement them with the Windows Installer.
C# Winforms Wizard
Rating: Barretto VN - 04/07/2004 A lot of time is spent in developing the simple but time-consuming user interface in Visual Studio .NET in the C# environment in the initial stages. This article will help you create a form wizard.
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