(Scott Lysle) This article describes a quick and simple approach to creating a tabbed custom control with a gradient background. In this example, the standard Windows Forms tab control is extended to provide a persistent gradient background; this differs from using an approach where a gradient backg

(Scott Mitchell) In building a data-driven application, oftentimes both text and binary data needs to be captured. Applications might need to store images, PDFs, Word documents, or other binary data. Such binary data can be stored in one of two ways: on the web server’s file system, with a reference

(Jon Shemitz) Color theory may sound like a subject for the Art Department, not for developers. But we’ve all had the experience of choosing a color scheme using the property grid to select named colors and ending up with a really garish color scheme. In an ideal world it might be the case that only