(BlackWasp) The DebuggerDisplay attribute is often used to change the way in which the values of variables are displayed in Visual Studio’s debugger windows. This display can be further modified with the addition of the Name and Type parameters.

(Matteo Slaviero) The Code Access Security model has been completely redesigned in the .NET Framework 4.0, to the point where CAS policies have been completely removed, and everything now works through Level2 Security Transparency. Confused? Not for long.

(Mahesh Chand) A FontDialog control is used to select a font from available fonts installed on a system. A typical Font Dialog looks like Figure 1 where you can see there is a list of fonts, styles, size and other options. Please note a FontDialog may have different fonts on different system dependi

(Scott Mitchell) As discussed in earlier installments of this article series – most notably in An Introduction to LINQ and The Standard Query Operators – one of LINQ’s primary components is its set of standard query operators. A query operator is a method that operates on a sequence of data and perf

Learn how to leverage BLOBs in your application. Read along as we look at the simplest of those scenarios, simply hosting your public files in a better place than your server.

(Mahesh Chand) A GroupBox control is a container control that is used to place Windows Forms child controls in a group. The purpose of a GroupBox is to define user interfaces where we can categories related controls in a group.

(marcelolr) Today’s post is written just to highlight the difference between three different concepts of how objects are managed in a .NET application.

(Eric White) A grammar is a device to define syntax for a language. A grammar is made up of rules, sometimes called productions. Each rule defines a symbol, when can then be further used in other rules. Grammars are not hard to understand; most developers instinctively understand grammars when th

(Mahesh Chand) A SaveFileDialog control is used to save a file using Windows Save File Dialog. A typical Save File Dialog looks like Figure 1 where you can see Windows Explorer like features to navigate through folders and save a file in a folder.

(Peter Vogel) In my last column ( Managing Menus ), I answered a question posed by a participant in an ASP.NET class that I was teaching: How to have an item in the Web.sitemap not appear in a menu but still appear in the SiteMapPath control. For that solution, I controlled which MenuItems were adde