Everyone has ideas about how to build software. Explore some common fallacies and collect some hints that may help you along the way. All of the ideas are the opinion of the author (who is sometimes wrong).
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Customising Your Desktop with Visual Basic.NET 2005
Learn how to launch, configure, and preview screen savers on your own form; also, learn how to change the computer's Visual style (along with the fonts and colours pertaining to the particular visual style), and other useful things.
Wallpaper Changer
Learn how to create an application that changes your wallpapers after a specified period, as well as how to apply the Tile, Center, and Stretch wallpaper styles.
A WebCam Class in Visual Basic
Discover a simple class to control the settings in your Web Cam.
Why Most Code Looks Like a Rube Goldberg Invention
Reliability is a by-product of beautiful code, so conscientious programmers care about the look of their code. But who's got the time to write beautiful code when deadlines and end users couldn't care less what the code looks like? Here's how to make the time.
Sample Code: Sudoku in VB .NET
Sudoku is a logic-based location puzzle game normally played using numbers. This is simply an introduction to some of the facets of VB .NET using the mathematics behind Sudoku.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
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
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
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
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.
