September 2008 - Posts
This article introduces you to the XNA Framework that makes game development easier than it ever was before. This sample features a Star Trek ship which you can move around the screen and shoot at an enemy Klingon Ship. The demo comes complete with authentic sounds.
DataSet? SqlDataReader? XmlReader? Each has its advantages and disadvantages. Sheo Narayan describes when to use which object.
This article shows how to create a multithreaded UI WPF application using the Dispatcher and BackgroundWorker objects. It also shows to use multithreading to resolve problems associated with long-running processes.
When you try to understand the performance characteristics of a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application, one useful feature to take advantage of is Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). By default, WPF emits an array of interesting events that can be used to track the execution of an application at the framework level.
The WPFPerf tool comprises of a suite of performance profiling tools that allow you to analyze the run-time behavior of your WPF application and point to potential performance bottlenecks.
Along with specification, examples and tools, a new visual modeling technique is being introduced, termed as “nAML” (.NET Application Modeling Language), which overcomes the limitation of typical modeling languages in a revolutionary way!
This article explains how to use the ProtectMemory and ProtectData classes in System.Security.Cryptography namespace to encrypt and decrypt data by calling wrappers around DPAPI methods.
C# 2.0 introduced many new features to increase the power of the C# language. Anonymous methods is one such feature. This article explores anonymous methods and its fundamentals.
Parameters in C#, Part 7, the final article of this series, shows how to take advantage of Parameter Arrays.
Parameters in C#, Part 4 and 5 showed how to pass parameters by value and by reference, respectively. This article, Part 6, explores output parameters.
Parameters in C#, Part 5, shows how to pass C# parameters by reference.
Parameters in C#, Part 5, shows how to pass parameters by value.
In Parameters in C#, Part 3, Selva Kumar explores C# value types in-depth.
Selva Kumar explores value types and reference types in Parameters in C#, Part 2.
Selva Kumar covers the basics of variables and parameters in C#. In Parameters in C#, Part 1, learn how variables and instances are stored and manipulated in .NET.
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