(Bill McCarthy) When Visual Basic moved to the .NET platform it gained support for free threading, allowing you to easily spawn new threads in your application, control synchronization and-most importantly-be able to debug multi-threaded applications. But two old adages apply here: “There’s no such

Visual Studio 2010 improves .NET framework multi-targeting by applying framework-appropriate filtering to the property grid and Intellisense.

(Matt Lee) In this second post about Hello (the first can be found here), I’m going to use one of the more complex portions of the app, the event front page, to illustrate some of the various parts of MVC which make writing web apps more intuitive.

(Ged Mead) I was going to title this blog “What’s in a name?” because William Shakespeare’s famous question smacked me on the head recently after what seemed like several hours of frustration. The answer in this particular case is “Quite a lot!”. As you’ll see when I cover the syntax used to group i

(Mahesh Chand) This article demonstrates how to implement timer in WPF using the DispatchTimer class.

(Ged Mead) Each of my previous blog items on WPF ListViews has mostly used a collection of DrinkProduct objects as the data source. This collection is bound to the Window via a DataContext and the individual columns are bound to fields in the collection. (As an alternative, this blog looked at the X

(Richard Northcott) Feeling that, although not fully completed, it was about time to move from the core development of my first C# application (Accommodation Management System) I found that there were a number of areas I needed to investigate/learn – one of these was creating the Help feature of the

(SheoNarayan) This article describes how to use ASP.NET AJAX PageMethods to submit data to the server and get response. It also shows how to serialize object into JSON format and access its properties in JavaScript.

(John Magnabosco) Frank, the DBA, has been asked to create a series of passwords that will be used to protect a collection of symmetric keys. These keys will in turn be used to protect some sensitive data in a database.

(Brian Dobberteen) This is a quick follow up to the previous post about calling ASP.NET PageMethods in which we used a ScriptManager object with EnablePageMethods set to True.