(Sam Haidar) This short article shows a simple example of how to use the LinkLabel control to display a hierarchy of levels that can be clicked, such as folder names.

(Ged Mead) WPF comes with a good selection of UI Controls, some of which will be familiar to you and some will be brand new. As you work with WPF in Visual Studio you will find that this happens often; there will be things that you are totally familiar with, some that are brand new and some where th

(Jeff Levinson) Team Foundation Server (TFS) and the Visual Studio 2005 Team System client components are nothing more than tools. They are not silver-bullet solutions for organizations that lack physical processes to back up their software development. However, companies can avoid typical implement

(Abhishek Kumar Singh) A windows service is a program which runs continuously in the background of an Operating System. It was formerly known as NT services. Window service internally uses the Service Control Manager (SCM) of the operating system. A service must be installed in a SCM database before

(brettg) This is a follow-on to my first article, “.NET Serialization to a SQLite Database.” In that article, I pointed out that most non-enterprise applications need the ability to store data locally. Some need only simple storage, whereas others need a full SQL database capability for various need

(Michael Livshitz) The BackgroundWorker Component allows a form to run an operation asynchronously. This is very useful when we deal with such kind of operations as database transactions, image downloads etc. In this case our user interface can hang (or not appear until loading will be finished). In

(Irina Medvinskaya) When you need to find a certain pattern of a string and modify the text to hide the contents, you can utilize VB.NET’s Regex.Replace method. Regex.Replace is a very efficient way to replace values. It allows you to replace the string with a fixed string literal, and it provides a

(Alejandro Gervasio) Any PHP developer who has been using the object-oriented paradigm for a while for developing web applications knows that the factory design pattern can be really useful when it comes to creating multiple objects across a specific programming context. However, if you’re intereste

(Brian Mains) ASP.NET is a very functional framework for developing web applications. Creating an object-oriented solution is harder to do so because of the coding effort involved with doing so. This coding effort means creating a custom page or user control class that drives the ASP.NET page.

(Ged Mead) Here’s my personal take on WPF at this relatively early stage of the game: I remember that a few years ago when .NET first hit the streets I thought that getting to grips with VB.NET from Classic VB was a steep learning curve. Well let me put it this way: by comparison, learning WPF i