Tag: Development

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WPF Meets the iPhone

(Kevin McNeish) The iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear on any consumer electronic device, with many innovations that make it a pleasure to use. This article demonstrates how you can implement these features in your .NET applications in a step-by-step format a

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Simple Asynchronous Downloads

(Karl E. Peterson) There are probably as many strategies for downloading files from the Internet as there are .NET programmers — that is, no where near the number of Classic VB developers, but still more than a mere handful. Ask the question in a newsgroup, and you’ll quickly get a good half-dozen

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Questions about .net Exceptions

(Tess Fernandez) One of my readers emailed me the following question I have a simple questions that my management asks me. When I see all kinds of exceptions thrown (null exceptions etc..), what is the user experience? Does their system hand these back to the user? does it return an error message

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Cautions

(Jim Mischel) Extension methods are a very clever bit of syntactic sleight-of-hand, and can be very useful in some situations. The LINQ standard query operators that add query functionality to the existing IEnumerable and IEnumerable(T) types are an excellent example of extension methods used well.