(Pete O’Hanlon) Like many people, I struggled to get to grips with WPF because it seemed so “alien” when programming a desktop based application. It seemed so different, and I just couldn’t apply knowledge that I already had – and then one day, it hit me. I’d been approaching this from the wrong ang

(Thiru Thangarathinam) Almost any application that you write will involve exchanging data from a client application to the server. This process involves selecting a data format and exchange protocol that will be required to enable this communication. When it comes to selecting these data formats, yo

(Michel Posseth) When you use the data wizards in .NET 2.0, the connection string property is read only. However, the following code shows you how to change the connection string:

(Ged Mead) You’ll know by now that I’m quite a fan of WPF, but I have to say that my first excursion into using sound in a WPF application was a bit of a disappointment. Rather frustrating too.

(Jim Mischel) The code above will work for any arbitrary values of ARRAY_SIZE and MAX_CHUNK_SIZE, but the merge algorithm has a serious flaw that becomes apparent as the number of items increases. For example, here are sample merge execution times (after the individual chunks are sorted) for differe

(Chris_McGrath) The DataGridView is a powerful control but there are some features missing. The features include: a quick way to search through the data, ability to show/hide columns, export data and keyboard shortcuts.

(Jim Mischel) The merge process really is a simple loop, as I showed in the pseudo code earlier. All we have to do is initialize the output (an array in this case), and then perform the merge loop until weve exhausted all of the chunks.

(Anand Vijayan) In the World Wide Web today there is always an increasing need to get information quickly. People do not want to spend time surfing on a personal computer looking for things. Mobile phones and PDA’s are being used to get information that is needed on the move. One can browse for anyt

(Scott Lysle) So, you need to a write a console mode application, no reason you can’t have a little fun with it by introducing color into the output. This article describes how to jazz up a console mode application with color (which, as you will see, is pretty darned easy to do).

(Josh Smith) This article explains the absolute basics of WPF data binding. It shows four different ways how to perform the same simple task. Each iteration moves closer to the most compact, XAML-only implementation possible. This article is for people with no experience in WPF data binding.