Take control of the lifetime of your objects. Release your object's resources on your schedule, not when the CLR determines they are no longer needed.
.NET Tip: Managing Resources with the Using Statement
Published 08/13/2007
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.NET Tip: Restrict the Access to Your Properties!
Published 08/03/2007
Stop unwanted changes to your properties! Discover how to you can stop worrying about accidentally changing values, while still allowing multiple views into your classes!
Windows Meeting Space
Published 07/23/2007
Windows Vista ushered in a new era of collaborative working with Windows Meeting Space. Here, you'll learn how to initiate a secure workgroup of up to nine users over a variety of connections.
.NET Tip: Take Advantage of Interfaces
Published 07/19/2007
Stop writing more code than needed. You can streamline your code if you use interfaces. You will be able to write simpler, more flexible, and more maintainable applications when you apply interfaces.
WCF Chat Application
Published 03/22/2007
The application uses .NET 3.0 and WCF to establish a peer to peer communication using netPeerTcpBinding. It uses .NET 3.0 predefined contract and .NET predefined services.
Lights Out Game (in C#)
Published 02/27/2007
Just play a game of Lights Out, or take some time to see an array of buttons put to use.
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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...
Obtaining External Window Handles and Window Captions with Visual Studio 2012
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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 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.
