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.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.
Josh Smith discusses Explore Panel3D, a custom WPF panel that displays its children in three-dimensional space.
In "10 Things I Didn't Know About WPF Data Binding", Rudi Grobler talks about less-than-obvious things he discovered about WPF data binding while building an n-tier application.
This is the second in a series of articles on writing WPF business applications in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2008. In it I cover the FormNotification control, binding to objects that implement IDataErorrInfo, rendering the Form Notification popup in...
LINQ to SQL solves the mismatch between the object oriented and relational database world. In an application, we deal in terms of our domain objects such as customer and orders. However, when it comes to saving these objects and solving the datatype mismatch...
Provides guidance for using the Model-View-Controller design pattern to create modular WPF apps that are easy to unit test.
Symbolic Links, Junction Points and Mount Points, collectively known as Reparse Points, were introduced into NTFS at version 5 and are thus present in Windows operating systems from 2000 onwards. However, they did not really impinge on the public consciousness...
The Grouper is a special groupbox control that is rounded and fully customizable. The control can paint borders, drop shadows, gradient and solid backgrounds, custom text, and custom icons. The purpose of this control was to design a better looking groupbox...
Covers precision in detail and discusses what it takes to make GPS applications smart enough for in-car navigation and reliable enough for commercial use.
Covers the skills needed to write a commercial-grade GPS application that works with a majority of GPS devices in the industry today.
Outlines the added complexity of creating a control that maintains a collection of items.
The standard TreeView control that is available in .NET is powerful and sufficient in most cases, but there are situations where seeing data in a true tree format is more intuitive vs. seeing data in the TreeView. The focus of this article is to show...
This article outlines the creation of a custom anti-spam engine, written in C#, that leverages artificial neural networks (ANNs) to target spam by looking for specific “gene” markers within e-mail messages.
Do you know what Jeff Richter didn't tell you about .NET serialization? Read on and learn what I've learned the hard way applying serialization to a real world .NET project.
This project uses managed C++ and the RichTextBox to build a Wordpad application.
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