August 2008 - Posts
The ‘Ping’ class in the System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace provides functionality to determine if a remote machine can be accessed over a network. In this article, Suprotim Agarwal uses the methods and properties of the ‘Ping’ class to determine machine availability.
This article describes the steps to install and configure the Subversion source control tool and walks you through the basic steps required to set up local Visual Studio projects using Tortoise SVN.
A simple 9 peice puzzle using WPF ImageBrush.ViewBox.
An introduction to using the MVP pattern with WinForms.
.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.
Suprotim Agarwal explores common text file operations using C# and VB.NET. .NET provides various classes, like the File class and FileInfo class, to create, read, and write text files. You can use the Create() method of the File class to create a text file, fr example. You can also use the FileInfo class's CreateText() method to do the same thing. The trick is to know when to use which class and for what purpose.
Rudi Grobler shows how to use the new WPF DataGrid.
Suprotim Agarwal explores how to Drag-and-Drop images into a Windows Forms PictureBox.
StyleCop is a source analysis tool for C#. It can be used for analysing source code (as opposed to compiled assemblies, which is the area for FxCop). StyleCop is currently in version 4.2 and can be downloaded here. In this tutorial Deepak Kapoor shows how to use StyleCop.
Mahesh Chand shows how to use an ADO.NET DataSet to get data from a database and bind it to a WPF ListBox control.
Visual Basic 9 in Visual Studio 2008 has a new set of language features that allows developers to work with XML in a much more productive way using a new API called LINQ to XML. This article will help you master these new features for working with XML in Visual Basic.
This document has been written to explain the current issues with small
text rendering, give insight as to how WPF text rendering works and
provide some basic workarounds to optimize small text rendering quality
in currently released WPF versions.
Raj Beniwal shows how to extract data from a database and show it in a WPF ListView control.
This article demonstrates just how easy it is to create a .NET data entry form and modify it using an intuitive and powerful collection editor from ComponentOne.
Suprotim Agarwal shows how to drag-and-drop items from one CheckedListBox to another in Windows Forms.
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