So I told you guys a couple weeks ago about the Ice Cream Truck episode of Pimp My Ride. It went over pretty good. All the touch screen software solutions, including the POS, and the cash drawer was all me. It came out nice. It was written in C# using Direct X for graphics and video stuff. It is all...

So I told you guys a couple weeks ago about the Ice Cream Truck episode of Pimp My Ride. It went over pretty good. All the touch screen software solutions, including the POS, and the cash drawer was all me. It came out nice. It was written in C# using Direct X for graphics and video stuff. It is all...

When you don’t have topics to blog about them you can write about usual questions you face with everyday. This post is an answer to a question that Rick asked me yesterday for one of his clients on ASPnix forums : How can we format our currency values for special languages? There are two solutions...

I wrote the code below to monitor a website that was running on a local web server. The goal was to reset the web server whenever the WebRequest object recieved a 404 error from the web server. If a 404 error is recieved, the service runs the command specified in the web.config file. The service operates...

Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is a technology that eliminates the mismatch among different data domains. With LINQ, there is no need to learn separate query syntaxes when querying over diverse data domains such as XML, Relational and Objects. Check out the MSDN Channel9 Session on LINQ. More information...

Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) isatechnology that eliminates themismatch among different data domains. With LINQ, there is no need to learn separate query syntaxes when querying over diverse data domains such as XML, Relational and Objects.Check out the MSDN Channel9 Session on LINQ.More information...

We have released a beta of the VG.net vector graphics system containing fast scrolling enhancments. Click on the image above to run the Scrolling Scalability sample, to see the difference in performance. This demo is built with the 2.0 .net framework. The new ScrollingMode property on Picture allows...

We have released a beta of the VG.net vector graphics system containing fast scrolling enhancments. Click on the image above to run the Scrolling Scalability sample, to see the difference in performance. This demo is built with the 2.0 .net framework. The new ScrollingMode property on Picture allows...

The following code is perfectly valid C#, and compiles without errors: int _; _ = 5; If we take it a bit further, we can do something like this: int _, __, ___, ____; _ = 5; __ = 10; ___ = 15; ____ = 20; _ = __ - _ * ____ / ___; Now I feel like I'm playing Hangman. I feel I should be filling in the blanks...

The following code is perfectly valid C#, and compiles without errors: int _; _ = 5; If we take it a bit further, we can do something like this: int _, __, ___, ____; _ = 5; __ = 10; ___ = 15; ____ = 20; _ = __ - _ * ____ / ___; Now I feel like I'm playing Hangman. I feel I should be filling in the blanks...