To the end-user and to the OS a frozen UI is hard to distinguish from a hung application. Learn how to address this problem in your Windows Forms Applications.
Maintaining a Responsive UI
Published 08/05/2003
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Just Say No to Finalize Methods!
Published 07/09/2003
So, what's the purpose of a Finalize method? That's a good question that Brent Rector addresses.
Five Reasons to Jump on the ASP.NET 1.1 Bandwagon
Published 05/14/2003
It's known that the .NET Framework version 1.1 is a minor upgrade with a relatively limited set of changes and updates. Get a gist of the changes with this list of five programming related differences between ASP.NET 1.0 and ASP.NET 1.1.
Build Secure Web Services With SOAP Headers and Extensions
Published 04/17/2003
Building Web services with the .NET Framework is easy'—easy, that is, unless the Web services are secure. There is no standard, agreed-upon method for exposing Web services over the Internet in such a way that only authorized users can call them. Jeff Prosise jumps into one method of tackling this now.
What!? A .NET Application Can Die?
Published 03/12/2003
Your applications can end sadly and abruptly. While that's fine during development, you don't want to have your applications die with an exception in front of our users. Nothing is more embarrassing than a confusing dialog or web page referring to unhandled exceptions.
Thread Synchronization Fairness in the CLR
Published 02/06/2003
Is it possible to have a fair thread synchronization mechanism in the managed world?
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
How to use Visual Studio 2012 to Download Images from Websites
Published 05/22/2013
Learn how to use a for loop to loop through all of the images found on a web page and save them via the DownloadFile method of the WebClient object.
SOLID Principles in C# - An Overview
Published 05/01/2013
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.
