Welcome to my tutorial on Creating your own RSS Reader in C#. This tutorial takes into consideration that you have a firm understanding of the XML Namespace and Custom Classes.
Virtually every developer will use bitmaps at times in their programming. Or if not in their programming, then in a website, blog, or family photos. Yet many of us don't know the trade-offs between a GIF, JPEG, or PNG file – and there are some major differences there. This is a short post on the basics which will be sufficient for most, and a good start for the rest.
Every time I work with one of our .NET customers to help them with managing their application performance I come across the same problems as seen with other clients before: lots of ADO.NET queries, many hidden exceptions in core or 3rd party .NET libraries, slow 3rd party components, inefficient custom code, … This article discusses the top problems, how to avoid them and how to do application performance management across the application lifecycle
Welcome to the tutorial on Taking a Screen Shot with C#. This tutorial is a little on the advanced side and assumes you have a fairly good working knowledge of the System.Drawing Namespace and a working knowledge Win32 API Calls as well, since we use 9 of them.
The task bar has some of the most visible improvements in Windows 7 - find out how to hugely increase the usability of your .NET applications by tapping into the taskbar functionality. Jump lists, thumbnail previews and thumbnail toolbars are all covered.
Silverlight Toolkit is on a rapid pace from July to October and now again a release in November there are various improvements and other nice features which you will like.
Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 screenshots
Facebook is arguably the king of social networking right now and Microsoft-based software developers can now leverage the Facebook user base via the same technologies they are accustomed to.
This is a brief tutorial on Mindscape LightSpeed, an O/R Mapper which is super easy to setup and use. I am using on a project now and wanted to share how simple it is to use, compared to something like Entity Framework from Microsoft.
I want to share very useful in my opinion code snippets for WPF developers. Most of they were created my friend - Dmitrij Zakharov. Moreover I want to add a short description to each snippets. Note: The Code Snippet Inserter inserts a code snippet at the cursor location, or inserts a surround-with code snippet around the currently selected code.