Learn how to take a string and convert it into an enumeration value.
.NET Tip: Converting Strings to Enum Values
Published 01/25/2008
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Flags Enumerations
Published 12/12/2006
The documentation on Microsoft's flags enumerations is rather sketchy at best, but offers a more ideal solution for a great many problems. The problem is, with such little documentation it can be very time consuming to figure out how to use them correctly. Here is a small walkthrough explaining a relatively simple means of interacting with them through use of the bitwise OR operator.
Converting a String to an Enumeration Value
Published 11/13/2002
How to convert a string value to a given enumeration type using System.Reflection.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
Parsing HTML the Easy Way
Published 11/26/2014
Use the IE web broswer and CsQuery for easy HTML parsing in a WinForms app.
Persisting Colors and Other Settings with Visual Basic
Published 11/24/2014
Discover two ways that you can use Visual Basic to save colors.
Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Published 06/18/2014
Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.
