Discover how to use a game pad with your Microsoft Visual Studio XNA applications.

Creating game programs and graphics programs is easy with XNA Game Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Display outline text with a translucent shadow and display a cached outline text for video rendering.

Discover how to design user-driven applications

Creating an easy interface for finding window handles.

Don't block hotlinked images; instead, learn how to label them to bring visitors to your web site and increase your web presence, even if you are restricted by a shared hosting environment.

The singleton pattern can be used in a wide variety of situations. This tip will show you how to create a thread-safe version of a singleton.

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.

There's no need to store file system paths in a database. Just store images in your database and then directly load them to your ASP.NET pages.

Learn about a Windows service that keeps volume control levels for each user in a WinXP system.

XNA Game Developer is coming from Microsoft, and the Express edition will be free!

Adding audio feedback to a .NET 2.0 application is easy using the System.Media namespace.

Playing a sound in C# 2.0 couldn't get much easier!

Learn about a library to control a Windows Mixer from C#.

Learn all about the new managed classes that enable C# and VB .NET Compact Framework developers to quickly gain access to Pocket Outlook data and modify it (if necessary) without additional products.

One of the worst features of Crystal Reports is the way it handles report parameters by presenting each parameter in a separate screen, which clients really hate! This demo will show you how to present ALL of the parameters contained in a .rpt file in a SINGLE screen to the user.

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.

It is amazingly easy to create forms of any shape within Visual C#. You can even do it with VB .NET!

When working with controls such as grids and so forth, it is much easier to design the GUI if we can see the data-filled grid, and then adjust the various look and feel properties.

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.

Three-dimensional primitive shapes are conspicuously absent from the .NET Framework and GDI+, but that didn't stop Paul Kimmel from implementing a 3D cube primitive. Read all about his results.

Learn to create simple charts and graphs using the Microsoft .NET Framework's System.Drawing namespace.

This article shows the CWaveFile class rewritten using .NET/C#.

If you draw graphics onto a form, they may be lost when the form  or sections of the form  refreshes. This program shows one way to retain the graphics on the form background. (It also shows how to draw some graphics!)

Play .wav files using C#. The example uses the simple Win32 command PlaySound.