(Mahesh Chand) The BitConverter class in .NET Framework is provides functionality to convert base data types to an array of bytes, and an array of bytes to base data types.

(Ben Nadel) In my continuing effort to explore Adobe FLEX as a means to find applicable jQuery / Javascript "best practices", I had a short exchange with Joe Rinehart the other day on FaceBook. It was a very brief conversation, so I didn’t have much to go on; but basically, it came down to keeping c

(Karl E. Peterson) It’s funny sometimes how long old habits take to die. Prior to VB4, the only documented method for working with binary data was within String variables. But the 32-bit version of VB4 introduced us to a new type of character data — Unicode, which was comprised of not one, but two

(Paul Kimmel) Multithreading can be challenging. Using a lot of threads can make an application much more difficult to debug and buggier. The Parallel FX Library was created to make your life a little easier. Now the features that were in a separate download are part of the .NET Framework 4.0, and t

(Stephen Walther) About two months ago, John Resig and I met at Café Algiers in Harvard square to discuss how Microsoft can contribute to the jQuery project. Today, Scott Guthrie announced in his second-day MIX keynote that Microsoft is throwing its weight behind jQuery and making it the primary way

(Mahesh Chand) While a brush is used to fill shapes with colors, a pen is used to draw outlines of a shape.

(Justin Etheredge) So, I blogged a while ago about the LINQ SelectMany operator. The LINQ SelectMany operator is one of the most useful, misunderstood, and underused operators in your LINQ repertoire. In my previous post I gave you a decent idea of what you can do with the LINQ SelectMany operator,

(zimvbcoder) The accompanying application attempts to demonstrate the use of the MSChart Control in a typical SME Line of Business Application. It covers the use of Pyramid, Pie and Column Graphs as they would typically be used in a business management type application.

(Jeff McWherter) Reports are a mere after thought on many projects. A great deal of effort is put into creating forms to manipulate the customer’s data, but many developers and project managers wait until the last minute to create reports. At this point in many projects, the budget is nearly gone, a

(Ben Nadel) When you use jQuery to capture mouse events (mousedown, mouseup, click, etc.), the jQuery Event object contains the X and Y coordinates of the mouse position at the time the event was triggered. These coordinates, while somewhat different in each browser, have been standardized by jQuery