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Environment: C# Introduction If you come from C++ or Java background to C#, no wonder that you will notice some strange keywords introduced to this new language. The first reaction will be what are these things for and why were they added Specially that, till now people were able to develop programs using the existing […]

The .NET Framework is a unified, object-oriented set of services, libraries, and programming languages, which developers can take advantage of to build robust, networked applications and services. The .NET Framework architecture, shown in Figure 1, is made up of four main components: Common Language Runtime – includes the Common Type System .NET Class Library Unifying […]

Introducing ASP.NET by Anand Narayanaswamy ASP.NET (Active Server Pages) is a new and extended technology to the earlier classic ASP, introduced by Microsoft Corporation, which fully supports Microsoft’s .NET Framework. It supplies all the required user interfaces under the name "WebForms" and also works with all .NET languages like Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET […]

Environment: .NET Beta 2 After a successful .NET installation, you are probably frustrated that Visual Studio .NET can’t access samples files from the help. When you select a sample file from the help, Visual Studio .NET requests the CD3 but if you take a look on the CD’s, you will quickly notice that the samples […]

Environment: Compiled and tested on VC++ 5.0 and 6.0; running Windows 2000/NT/XP Many people have wondered how to download a file from the Internet while having a progress bar to track the download progress. In this example, I will demonstrate how to achieve this task. The article also covers how to get file complete percentage, […]

From Kate Gregory’s Codeguru column, “Using Visual C++ .NET“. –> If you’ve been maintaining a large and complex C++ application for several years, it probably serves as a mini-museum of technology all by itself. There will be code that interacts with the user, business logic, and data access logic – and I hope it’s not […]

Environment: VC6 SP5, W2K SP3 Introduction I’ve been using this site for some time now to help me with my projects. I just want to say thank you to the sponsors! This site is a great resource! I’m presently working on a project that needs to save files from a document/view application in an encrypted […]

The approach for indexing collections differs between VB6 and Visual Basic .NET. In Visual Basic .NET you can define a property that permits you to treat an instance of a class as if it were itself an array. This property can be the default property, and only indexed properties can be default properties. This is […]

By Anand Narayanaswamy A class is the fundamental topic to be discussed in any Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language. This also is true with C#. Basically, we have to discuss the meaning of class with reference to an object also. This is because these two words are more or less interrelated. A class is a combination […]

Environment: Compiled and tested on VC++ 5.0 and 6.0 running Windows 2000/NT/XP Introduction I’ve been looking all over CodeGuru and third-party Web sites across the net, hoping to find some sort of information about how to retrieve and write tables with data using the CDao* classes. My searches unsuccessfully ended without a single clue about […]

Environment: Internet and Networking, E-Mail Introduction As you should know, a Win NT service is an application that does not have a user interface and can run (if configured) automatically every time the workstation/server boots. This is an advantage for some applications that need to be executed without user intervention (the user is not required […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC6 + Visual Studio SP5, Win98/NT/2000/XP The Reason for This Article I’ve recently had some experience dealing with image editing. Since 1997, I’ve wondered what a bitmap file format looks like inside. Because there are API functions that load and display bitmaps, I never actually got into the […]