August 2006 - Posts
In this article Joydip provides a detailed analysis of Application Domains, how they work and their differences with a process.
Learn about the generic BindingList and how to extend this generic collection type to add sorting and searching functionality.
Windows users expect to see recently loaded items in the My Recent Documents section of their Start menu. This article describes how to achieve this using C# and Windows API functions.
Isolated storage is an very useful tool for saving user settings and similar tasks, but it is not a panacea (what is?). Peter Aitken explains when to use it, and when to leave it alone.
If you’ve been wondering why you are not able to access stored procedure return values from TableAdapter, here’s the solution for you.
Learn about additions to the Binding and ControlBindingsCollection classes that enable easier formatting of bound data.
This article covers tools and technologies that are mainly useful for Windows Forms Smart Client development. Focus of this article is on concepts and high-level view of new tools/technologies.
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.
The Microsoft Windows Forms DataGridView control in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 provides a grid experience similar to Microsoft Excel, but does not provide the column filtering drop-down lists that Excel provides in its AutoFilter feature. However, the DataGridView can bind to data sources that provide filtering, such as the ADO.NET DataView. This article describes how to build a custom DataGridView column header cell that displays drop-down filter lists, by taking advantage of the filtering capabilities of the data source and the new BindingSource component.
This is the third article in a series on developing object oriented database applications using Visual Basic.NET 2005. In this article, I shall deal with the concept of "properties" in depth, along with data access.
This article gives you a practical understanding of asynchronous programming. It also gives you a simple template for developing asynchronous-based applications in a very easy manner.
Storing and retrieving information from the Windows Registry will play a major part in any programmer's life. You can store small bits of information, such as recently used files, form sizes and location, and user preferences—to name just a few—in the Windows Registry. My aim with this article is to explain the major differences between the way Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET utilise the Windows Registry.
Describes how to create non-rectangular controls that respond to mouse events.
Dialog-box controls are an important part of programs, especially if you expect users to interact with your application. This article explains how to handle several different dialog-box controls.
The Fabrikam Fine Furniture reference application is a feature-rich, fully-functional reference application. The source download includes a Visual Studio .NET solution containing the end-to-end application, and you can also download separate components to assist you in building mobile PC and Tablet PC solutions.