Hannes DuPreez

Introduction I have been writing about games quite often, and the major undertone of each of those games (I will provide links to a few games at the end of this article) have been that: as long as you can figure out the logic behind the game, you are more than halfway there; some games […]

Introduction Hello again! As you may know, I always endeavour to write about topics that are interesting and fun. As you may also know: I love games—in another life, I would have been a game developer, but so much has changed since I have tried getting into the gaming development environment. If you have been […]

I love games; some of you may know that about me. I love reading and try to dabble with writing every now and then. A game that combines both of these passions is Scrabble. Scrabble is a word game. You get a certain number of tiles, each with a letter on it. Each of these […]

Introduction One of the most fun things to do in my life is to play cards with my wife. We invented our own game and play just for fun mostly. If there were bets involved, I always end up losing. We do like ordinary card games as well: I love Blackjack and Poker. Because I […]

Introduction Today, you will learn how easy it is to create a simple family tree in .NET. Family Trees and Genograms A family tree is a chart that represents family relationships in a tree structure. A genogram is a pictorial display of a person’s family relationships and medical history. The difference between a genogram and […]

Introduction I am by nature a very lazy person. Couple my laziness with curiosity and enthusiasm and you end up with wacky solutions to problems you never knew existed. Have you ever wondered how to programmatically add items to the Windows context menu? Let’s say, for example: You would like to add an item under […]

Introduction As many of you know, I am quite inquisitive and curious. I’ve got this inherent need to know how stuff works. Today’s topic is no different. Some time ago, I wrote an article or two about customizing the desktop settings. These articles covered setting desktop backgrounds, screensavers, and the odd theme. Some articles even […]

Introduction .NET and Windows are exceptionally good at managing memory, so you might ask: “Why am I reading this?” To answer your question: Sometimes you need to get rid of RAM in your program quickly, albeit that task is a bit dangerous. The fact of the matter is that you will never know what your […]

Introduction Temporary files: We all have them, and we all hate them, especially when apps are starting to perform poorly or space on the hard drives start to run out. With this article, I will show you how easy it is to create a Temp file cleaner. Our Project Open Visual Studio and create either […]

Language Understanding (LUIS) Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) gives your applications the ability to understand what a person wants in their own words. LUIS makes use of machine learning. This enables developers to build applications that can receive user input in a natural language form and extract meaning from it. LUIS Applications A LUIS app […]

Quantum Mechanics Quantum mechanics explains the behavior of matter (any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume) and its interactions with energy on the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. Atoms An atom is the smallest unit (100 picometers—ten-billionth of a meter) of ordinary matter that has the properties of a […]

Introduction Welcome to the second (and most likely, the last) installment of my resizing Drawn objects series. In Part 1, “Creating Resizable Drawings in Visual Basic.NET, Part 1: Rectangles,” I covered how to set things up nicely so that you have a resizable Rectangular object. Today, I will take it a step further and show […]