Code Editors

What are Code Snippets in Visual Studio

Code Snippets are ready-made snippets of code that can be inserted in your code. They improve the developers efficiency and accuracy because they reduces typing and help code reuse. Read More ›

ASP.NET · Code Editors

Installing the AJAX Controls Toolkit 3.5

The AJAX Controls Toolkit is an open source toolkit developed by Microsoft and the ASP.NET community. The latest version is for .NET 3.5 and it contains 38 client side components used to create Rich Internet Read More ›

WinForms

Capturing Outlook 2007's New Mail and Reminder Events

Visual Studio 2008's Outlook Add-in projects allows you to create add-ins that can customize almost any feature of Ms Outlook. Two useful events that can be captured are ReminderFire and NewMailEx. The first occurs before Read More ›

ASP.NET · Mono 2.0

2 or More Domain Names Linked to the Same Folder

Most if not all web hosting services allow users to link two or more domain names to the same account to save them the cost of a new account for each domain name. With such Read More ›

ASP.NET · WinForms

Reading Excel 2003 and 2007 Files Using OLEDB

One of the feature of the application I'm working on these days is allowing the user to import data from Excel 2003 and 2007 files. After some research I found out that OLEDB is the Read More ›

WinForms

Lock, Sleep or Hibernate Windows using C#

I don't think there is a Windows developer who has not done this with his or her favorite programming language. So here is the C# version. Putting Windows in Sleep or Hibernate mode can be Read More ›

Interesting Links

A PInvoke Wiki for .NET Developers

PInvoke is short for Platform Invoke which is a service in the .NET Framework that enables managed code to call unmanaged functions in dynamic link libraries (DLLs). PInvoke.net is a wiki of Win32 and other Read More ›

WinForms · Mono 2.0

Reading and Writing Text Files in C#

With all the DBMSs out there, text files are still widely used when developing applications. They are small, fast and do not require any library or application to be installed in the client machine. The Read More ›

WinForm

Saving User and Application Settings in WinForms

Before the .NET Framework application settings were saved in INI files and the Windows Registry. But the .NET Framework introduced a much easier way using an XML file. The file has the name of the Read More ›

ASP.NET

2 Ways to Confirm Deletion in an ASP.NET GridView

When a GridView is used to display and manipulate data, the Delete button can be displayed next to each record to easily delete a single record, or at the bottom of the GridView to delete Read More ›