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Why I'm Testy About Tests
Paul Kimmel says tests are impersonal, impractical, and inefficient for evaluating potential. Worst of all, they promote laziness in personnel departments that use them as the determining factor for hiring.
Working with ASP.Net and Crystal Reports 9 with and Without RAS 9 Server
You know the problems that you face when working with Crystal Reports due to its poor and confusing documentation. See ready-to-go code to access reports developed in Crystal Reports 9 (with or without RAS 9) using ASP.NET.
When Did a Cubicle Become Such a Prize? And Other Rants
Paul Kimmel speaks out on behalf of all the mistreated contractors out there.
FAQ: How to Open a URL or Send an E-Mail from a VB Application
Open a URL or send an e-mail with a click of a button from within a VB application.
Generate Excel Pivot Reports Using VB 6.0
Learn how a common procedure can be written in VB to generate Excel pivot reports using COM.
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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.
