(Tony Patton) The auto-complete features of Visual Studio .NET are wonderful if you are a Visual Basic developer, but C# developers sorely missed out on the feature. (Of course, C# developers who never use Visual Basic may be unaware of its existence.) Fortunately, Visual Studio 2005 brings auto-com

(Neil Knobbe) There are a lot of neat options now available to us programmers thanks to WPF.

(Matthew Cochran) A .NET 1.0 enumerator is basically a state machine object that implements the following interface:

(Neil Knobbe) Sara Ford blogged about this a couple of days ago and I thought it was a really cool feature of Visual Studio.

(Kevin S. Goff) Scorecards, test results, report cards, summaries—nearly everyone wants to skip past the details and see the bottom line; managers evaluate professional efforts based on performance. Microsoft’s Business Intelligence tools provide developers and power users with the tools and methodo

(Kenneth Downs) When a programmer first decides to start learning SQL, the JOIN always appears simple at first. But it can produce some unexpected results. Sometimes a JOIN brings back more rows than the novice thinks it should, and sometimes less. This week we are going to concentrate on all of the

(Deepankar Sarangi) This code snippet is an extension of my earlier code snip How to select the records from a table following a pattern. There I used ROWNUM to find the even/odd records from the emp table. Current code snip achieves the same functionality even without the use of ROWNUM. This method

(Bipin Joshi) In the previous article I discussed how to consume RSS feeds exposed by other web sites onto your site. You may also want to expose your own site content as RSS or ATOM feed. The syndication classes also allow you to accomplish this easily. This article shows how.

(Jon Galloway) I’ve been contributing to the Witty project lately. I’m a fan of Twitter, and it’s nice to work on a popular WPF application with some hotshot coders including a WPF pro like Alan Le. Lately, I noticed that we were storing the user’s password in plaintext application config file:

(Neil Knobbe) After having looked at how to change the background colour of the tab header I got to wondering what else can be done to the tabs using WPF.In a very short time my question changed from “What can be done?” to “What can’t be done?”