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C# Generics

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-31 .NET 60 Comments

The single most anticipated (and dreaded?) feature of Visual C# 2.0 is the addition of Generics. This article will show you what problems generics solve, how to use them to improve your code, and why you need not fear them.

DotGNU Portable.net 0.6.6 Released

Submitted by t3rmin4t0r 2004-05-29 .NET 49 Comments

DotGNU Portable.net 0.6.6 has been released . Read the announcement here. It's been 2 months since the last release , threading has been rewritten twice , timers redone once , binary/SOAP serialization and lots of stuff done in Windows.Forms . This release includes Portable Studio IDE, MyXaml, Photo Tool (wx.NET), KDE DCOP Support, MDI and FileDialogs, Gtk-Sharp, Svg Rendering, XHTML Rendering .

.NET Tools for Working with XML

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-24 .NET 11 Comments

.NET provides a powerful set of classes for working with XML directly. This article provides an overview of the most important of these classes, and some examples of what you can do with them.

Through the Looking Glass: Debugging Hosted .NET Applications

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-17 .NET No Comments

When Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson looked in the mirror, perhaps he saw Lewis Carroll. Carroll's genius was his ability to peer through the looking glass into the magical land called Wonderland. After a brief prelude, which spartanly demonstrates how to create a COM+ serviced component, Paul Kimmel shows you how to peer through the looking glass and debug .NET code that's hosted by another application.

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-14 .NET 6 Comments

Join MSDN TV for a glimpse at the newest release from the patterns & practices team. In this episode they discuss memory management, COM Interop and the Dispose pattern.

Visual Basic.NET 2003 – for Free

Submitted by Hacktisvmo 2004-05-10 .NET 49 Comments

Microsoft is giving away copies of Visual Basic.NET in a promotion called VB at the movies. In exchange for watching five relatively short "movies" you get a "free" (not for resale) copy of Visual Basic.NET (IDE and all needed tools). The movies themselves are a showcase of features available in Visual Basic.NET. Note that only 2 of 7 movies are currently available.

VG.NET – Vector Graphics in .NET, Today

Submitted by Hacktivsmo 2004-05-07 .NET 28 Comments

VG.NET 1.7 has recently been released, offering a full-fledged, API-stable vector-graphics solution for .NET - not three years down the road and exclusively for Avalon, but available today, hosted on any .NET platform that supports GDI+ (VG.NET is 100% managed code).

MyXAML Ported on DotGNU

Submitted by Hacktivsmo 2004-04-29 .NET 57 Comments

Coder "t3rmin4t0r" seems to have ported MyXAML to Linux. Here is a screenshot of the default WinForms powered MyXAML calculator demonstration, and here is the same demonstration running under DotGNU's work-in-progress Qt-powered WinForms backend.

Exception Management in .NET

Guest post by Amit Bahree 2004-04-27 .NET 25 Comments

Exceptions are a very powerful concept when used correctly. An important cornerstone in the design of a good application is the strategy you adopt for Exception Management. You must ensure that your design is extensible to be able to handle unforeseen exceptions gracefully, log them appropriately and generate metrics to allow the applications to be monitored externally.

Gaming with the .NET CF; Combining XML Documents with XInclude

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-27 .NET 1 Comment

This sample expands upon the GAPI series of articles by creating a playable game demo using the .NET Compact Framework. Elsewhere on MSDN, this article explores the problem of how to construct a single XML document from multiple documents. It focuses on XML Inclusions (XInclude), a general-purpose mechanism for facilitating modularity in XML.

Data Access Performance in ADO.NET

Submitted by Frank 2004-04-25 .NET 2 Comments

This article introduces some of the basic data-access performance issues to consider while developing database applications using ADO.NET. It shows you how to analyze network load, load on the database server, un-optimized SQL, opening and closing a connection, fetching a result set, blob access, and metadata retrieval. It then provides suggestions for improving database application performance.

Navigate the .NET Framework and Your Projects with “My”

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-22 .NET 5 Comments

"My" in Visual Basic 2005 provides a quick and easy method for accessing some of the deeper areas of functionality in the .NET Framework without preventing you from using the Framework directly in any way you choose. In addition to exposing Framework functionality, some areas of My, such as the Forms collection, bring back familiar and convenient programming concepts from earlier versions of VB.

Events and Properties for Composite Custom Controls in C# Builder

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-20 .NET 6 Comments

This article describes how to build a composite custom control with Borland C# Builder for MS .NET. However, once the control is built, you can use it in any other IDE, such as Visual Studio .NET.

The .NET Rocks! Show: Keith Pleas and Harry Pierson

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-20 .NET 10 Comments

This show is all about architecture from Why to How. Keith and Harry bring the developer's and architect's perspective to the discussion, respectively. The discussion starts with the importance of good design and architecture, to techniques, tools, standards, and the like.

MyXaml Releases A Technology Preview Designer

Submitted by Marc Clifton 2004-04-15 .NET 21 Comments

MyXaml is making available a free designer that generates MyXaml compatible markup. You can lay out controls in the designer, switch to the MyXaml view, edit the markup, switch back to the designer view and see your markup changes. This is an early prototype, so quite a few features are missing, but we're moving forward with a fully functional MyXaml Studio. Our Take: I would also like to see the MyXaml technologies ported to Mono in association with Novell.

What’s New in System.Xml for VS2005 & the .NET Framework 2.0

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-13 .NET 10 Comments

This article by Mark Fussell provides an in-depth overview through a climax-building top ten countdown of the best features of the core XML classes in System.Xml in the forthcoming .NET Frameworks Beta 1 release. These enable you to read, write, manipulate, and transform XML. With improvements in performance, usability, typing, and querying the XML support in the V2.0 release continues to lead the industry in innovation, standards support, and ease of use.

CLR: Beware of Fully Trusted Code

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-09 .NET 12 Comments

K. Brown pulled together a number of examples where fully trusted code can skirt around CLR security features, starting each with a question that seems to have an obvious answer.

New Language Features in C# 2.0, Part 1

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-07 .NET 33 Comments

Four years ago, a new upstart language named C# surprised the development world with its elegance and consistency. In this two-part series, you'll get a first look at three of the four major language refinements in the latest version of C#.

Infrared Programming Using the .NET Compact Framework

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-01 .NET 3 Comments

In this article, Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to build an infrared chat application using the IrDAClient class supported in the .NET Compact Framework class libraries. Elsewhere, by way of a blog entry, David Hill explains how you can implement an asynchronous call pattern that allows you to consume Web services from a Windows Forms application without having to worry about threads.

.NET Enterprise Services Performance

Submitted by TT Foo 2004-03-30 .NET 19 Comments

See the performance of native COM+ and .NET Enterprise Services components when applied to different activation and calling patterns. Get guidelines to make .NET Enterprise Services components execute just as quickly as C++ COM+ components, and get key recommendations to help you create high-performance .NET Enterprise Service components.

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