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Where Do Programmers Find Visual Designers?

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:00:27 GMT

This aticle is a request for comments and provides some thoughts on where programmers without graphics abilities can find graphic designers for their ASP.NET, WPF, or MFC projects.

How to Access a COM Indexed Property from C#

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:09:32 GMT

This article describes how to access an Indexed Property in a COM object from C#.

Choosing an ASP.NET Web Host

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:06:37 GMT

This article describes some of the things to look for when selecting an ASP.NET host for your web applications.

Adding MFC to an ATL EXE Project

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:24:30 GMT

This article documents what's needed to be done to add MFC to an existing ATL EXE project in Visual Studio 2008.

Compiler Optimizations

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:41:19 GMT

This article describes the observances of the author when working with the C++ compiler and function return values.

Tutorial: How to Get a List of Available Network Interfaces

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:34:43 GMT

This article describes how to get a list of network connections and their status (up/down, IP address, etc.).

What I Learned About Silverlight, Part 2

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:12:06 GMT

This article describes some of the issues found while creating a Silverlight application It is a continuation of Part 1.

What I Learned About Silverlight, Part 1

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:59:55 GMT

This article describes some of the issues around creating a Silverlight application and some workarounds. Part 1.

Yet Another Photo Gallery in Silverlight

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:34:17 GMT

A running demo of another photo gallery done in Silverlight. A link to downloadable source code is available.

Migrating from VC6 to VC9

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:37:31 GMT

This article describes the author's experiences migrating his application from VC6 to VS2008. It lists some of the issues the author faced and how they were resolved.

Tutorial: Reading Local Files in Silverlight

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:10:51 GMT

This article is a follow up to a previous article about reading local files from the hard drive in Silverlight. It describes the process of selecting a file to open and reading the file from a System.IO.Stream.

LINQ

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:12:38 GMT

This article is an introduction to LINQ and includes samples of using with in-memory data sources.

Silverlight Toolbar Demo

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:33:38 GMT

This article describes creating a toolbar in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and includes a demo.

Anonymous Types

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:06:52 GMT

This article introduces Anonymous Types in C# to the reader discussing what can and cannot be done with them.

Tutorial: Reading and Writing Files in Silverlight

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:39:09 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to read and write to the local storage in Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

Deparallelizer 1.0

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:00:50 GMT

This article describes a utility (including source) to clean up the confusing logs from a command-line build using Visual Studio's parallel builds.

VersionUtil 1.0

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:52:23 GMT

Slick utility for updating a binary's version if and only if it's built. This tool can be used as a post-process for Visual C++.

Tutorial: Adding a Custom Place to CFileDialog

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:01:24 GMT

This tutorial describes the steps required to add a custom place to Microsoft Vista's File Open dialog.

Tutorial: Adding Controls to CFileDialog in Vista

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:57:40 GMT

This tutorial describes the steps required to add custom controls and control handlers to Microsoft Vista's file open dialog via CFileDialog.

Static vs. Shared DLL

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:54:41 GMT

This article discusses the benefits and drawbacks of linking to MSVCR90 and MFC90 DLLs statically and dynamically.