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I do not want to learn "yet another programming language", especially a low-level one like Microsoft's Intermediate Language (IL). And yet, sometimes it's useful to look under the hood and see what in tarnation is going on. And that means knowing something...
"It works on my machine." How many times have we heard that? Getting something to work on other machines, after deployment, can be the final challenge in a successful project. The worst case scenario is having to go to the problem machine (hopefully it...
I wanted a cheap, simple visual indicator similar to a progress bar. Note, not the kind of dynamic progress bar used when updating AJAX pages, more of a single-bar graph. It should have been simple task. My plan was to use a Div as a container, implemented...
Back in the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, developers wanting to exchange data between applications used binary formatted data, hardcoded text field lengths, or delimited text files. Much parsing and error checking was involved. It was tedious...
A few posts back, I described the new Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework: Chart Demo . While playing with the controls a bit over the holidays, I was pleasantly surprised to find you can hook into the paint events while the chart is being...
I haven't been impressed by any new technology in a long time…until I downloaded and tried out the new Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework. It contains charts for both Forms and Asp.Net applications. It was easy to put this chart in an Asp...
While answering a question on the Asp.Net forums, I was pleasantly surprised to find nested Generic Lists are possible. They seem much easier than multidimensional arrays. Here is the key line: List < List < int >> MyListOfIntLists; protected...
Enums are great. They provide additional type safety and make code more readable. Converting enums to strings is trivial. Converting strings to enums is not as straightforward...so here is a code snippet: // This enum is in the .Net frameworkpublic enum...
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