In this installment we'll explore optional and named parameters in C# programming. This is an option that has long been around within the Visual Basic language, but is newly introduced in to the C# language in the .NET Framework version 4.0.
Microsoft and other third party vendors have developed a few free SQL Azure development tools for integration of your SQL Azure Database with a local on premises database. Tapas Pal looks at some of these Azure development tools and discusses how the Azure developer can use them in their day-to-day development activity.
This article, by Scott Mitchell, examines two new features added to C# 4.0: optional and named arguments.
Discover how to use a game pad with your Microsoft Visual Studio XNA applications.
Windows Azure Diagnostics is geared to help you with the challenges of gathering and analyzing the diagnostic data you need from the variety of machines in a distributed system. Read on to learn more.
The 4.0 runtime and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 have been released. Explore the new language enhancements now available in C# 4.0.
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.
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...
Learn how to obtain an outside application's window handle, in order to manipulate that window from inside your program, using either VB.NET or C#.
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.
