Beginner's Guide to Crystal Reports, Part I: Winforms
Rating: tvmogul - 09/14/2005 One of the worst features of Crystal Reports is the way it handles report parameters by presenting each parameter in a separate screen, which clients really hate! This demo will show you how to present ALL of the parameters contained in a .rpt file in a SINGLE screen to the user.
Creating Simple Charts and Graphs
Rating: Mark Strawmyer - 12/03/2003 Learn to create simple charts and graphs using the Microsoft .NET Framework's System.Drawing namespace.
Customizing User Interfaces FreeDOM (Programming)
Rating: none VectorX - 11/12/2007 Learn about FreeDOM (Free Document Object Model), a web development technique used to create event-driven web applications. FreeDOM is designed to overcome the limitations of stateless HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transmissions.
Rendering Images in ASP.NET Directly from Your Database
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 08/01/2007 There's no need to store file system paths in a database. Just store images in your database and then directly load them to your ASP.NET pages.
Fast and Simple Mobile Access to Pocket Outlook Data
Rating: Don Sorcinelli - 10/14/2005 Learn all about the new managed classes that enable C# and VB .NET Compact Framework developers to quickly gain access to Pocket Outlook data and modify it (if necessary) without additional products.
[Updated] Creating Non-Rectangular Forms
Rating: Bradley Jones - 07/21/2005 It is amazingly easy to create forms of any shape within Visual C#. You can even do it with VB .NET!
WYSIWYG Runtime Properties Editor (not yet reviewed)
Rating: none jainnys - 10/05/2004 When working with controls such as grids and so forth, it is much easier to design the GUI if we can see the data-filled grid, and then adjust the various look and feel properties.
Getting Graphics to stay on a Form (C#)
Rating: Bradley Jones - 08/08/2003 If you draw graphics onto a form, they may be lost when the form or sections of the form refreshes. This program shows one way to retain the graphics on the form background. (It also shows how to draw some graphics!)
Putting Images Next to Menu Items in a C#.NET Menu
Rating: none Christopher Chartier - 06/03/2003 A tutorial on drawing a menu item with an icon/bitmap next to it. While this is commonplace, it was not as straightforward as one would have hoped. (beginning-level article)
Drawing Turn Image Hotlinking to Your Advantage
Rating: mendhak - 02/12/2008 Don't block hotlinked images; instead, learn how to label them to bring visitors to your web site and increase your web presence, even if you are restricted by a shared hosting environment.
Can You Say "C# Xbox 360 Development?"
Rating: Bradley Jones - 08/15/2006 XNA Game Developer is coming from Microsoft, and the Express edition will be free!
[Updated] The Mists of Avalon
Rating: Guido Stercken-Sorrenti - 07/25/2005 Learn about "Avalon," the exciting new presentation subsystem of the upcoming Windows platforms. After an introduction to declarative drawing and XAML, you'll use XAMLPad to get a first taste of Avalon programming.
Flicker Free Drawing In C#
Rating: Rehan Nadeem - 10/01/2002 Methods for removing flickering when drawing graphics using C#.
Mouse Detecting Mouse Button Events in C#
Rating: none Bill Nolde - 05/23/2003 Detect the mouse button click in a listbox along with its coordinates.
Screen Captures Capturing the Screen Image Using C#
Rating: Agha Ali Raza - 02/10/2003 Do screen captures in your .NET and C# applications. (The article, project, and source code were updated.)
Sound Volume Control Snapshot
Rating: none Fidencio Monroy - 09/25/2006 Learn about a Windows service that keeps volume control levels for each user in a WinXP system.
Audio Feedback the Easy Way
Rating: none Mike Gunderloy - 07/06/2006 Adding audio feedback to a .NET 2.0 application is easy using the System.Media namespace.
Beeping in C#
Rating: none Bill Nolde - 03/07/2003 Adding the ability to "beep" within a C# program using the Win32 beep.
Threading .NET Tip: Creating a Thread-Safe Singleton
Rating: Jay Miller - 02/01/2008 The singleton pattern can be used in a wide variety of situations. This tip will show you how to create a thread-safe version of a singleton.
Working With Asynchronous .NET Web Service Clients
Rating: Kenn Scribner - 09/16/2004 Having trouble using the asynchronous call mechanisms built into .NET? Let Kenn Scribner clarify it for you and make your programming tasks (at least as related to asynchronous processing) a little easier.
Create a 3D Cube Structure for GDI+
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 09/15/2004 Three-dimensional primitive shapes are conspicuously absent from the .NET Framework and GDI+, but that didn't stop Paul Kimmel from implementing a 3D cube primitive. Read all about his results.
Threading Out Tasks in a C#.NET GUI
Rating: Christopher Chartier - 06/17/2003 Make a task that happens in a GUI spawn-off and runs in a seperate thread so that the GUI doesn't effectively "die" when a long-running task is executing.