Library tutorials & articles tagged with .net
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Floating-Point in .NET Part I: Concepts and Format
by Jeffrey Sax
The first in a three part series, this article introduces the basic concepts of floating-point arithmetic: number formats, accuracy and precision, and round-off error. It includes an in-depth discussion of the .NET floating-point types.
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.NET Applets
by M Kenyon
Mark walks you through how you go about creating a ".NET Applet" - a Windows Forms control hosted within a web page.
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VSA Scripting in .NET
by Mark Belles
Using Visual Studio for Applications to add scripting capabilities to your .NET apps.
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Collection Controls with Rich Design Time Support
by Tim Dawson
This extensive article details the process of creating complex list-based controls with rich design time support similar to my DotNetWidgets and OutlookBar controls.
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Writing Your Own GPS Applications: Part 2
by Jon Person
In part two of the series, the author of "GPS.NET" teaches developers how to write GPS applications suitable for the real world by mastering GPS precision concepts. Source code includes a working NMEA interpreter and sample high-precision application in C# and VB.NET.
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Using Encryption in .NET
by Steve Johnson
In this article I will explain the classes and code necessary to put encryption to work in your applications. I will also explain the basic principles of operation of these classes and point out several pitfalls to avoid.
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Retrieving HTTP content in .NET
by Rick Strahl
This article discusses the .NET WebRequest and WebResponse classes used to retrieve HTTP content over the Web in detail. In the process a number of related .NET development issues are described including stream handling, string encoding, using delegates, implementing events and creating new threads to run HTTP requests simultaneously.
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Isolated Storage in .NET
by Graham Parker
Knowing how and where to store things is bread and butter stuff for an Application Developer. This article examines an area of storage known as ‘Isolated Storage’ that was introduced to the Windows environment alongside the introduction of the .NET Framework. We’ll discover, what it is and how and why to use it.
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Writing GPS Applications in .NET: Part 1
by Jon Person
An introduction to writing GPS applications in .NET good enough for use in a commerical environment such as in-car navigation.
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Boosting Your .NET Application Performance
by James Yang
Confused about the tiers, performance or scalability of your .NET apps? If so, James has come to the resue with his personal insight, tips and tricks on how best to structure your .NET apps.
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Printing Reports in .NET
by Mike Mayer
Learn how to print reports from C# and other .NET languages using the open source library presented here. Features include Printing DataTables, printing paragraphs of text using style classes, customizable page headers and footers, boxes, lines, graphics and much more.
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Introducing a post-relational database for .NET
by John Sasak
This is a step by step guide for a post-relational database for .NET, Matisse. The article is aiming at helping developers quickly evaluate this alternative solution as .NET database when they face problems of productivity, flexibility, extensibility, or maintainability.
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Using .NET to make your Application Scriptable
by Tim Dawson
Shows how to use the built-in compilers in the .NET framework to allow users of your product to write script to control and hook in to the application.
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Using ADO.NET with SQL Server
by James Crowley
An extensive examination of using ADO.NET to access SQL Server databases, from establishing connections and executing stored procedures, to connection pools, data readers and data sets.
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Introduction to Designers
by Tim Dawson
Designers are essential in creating professional controls with polished design time behaviour. This article serves as an introduction to writing your own.
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Hosting Windows Forms Designers
by Tim Dawson
Shows how to write the code needed to host the Windows Forms Designers in your own application. Sample code is provided to display a form in design mode and allow normal editing like in Visual Studio.
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The Quick & Dirty .NET Guide to C#/VB OOP
by Dimitrios Markatos
Although this article won't be an exhaustive OOP treatise, its objective nevertheless is to present in a quick and dirty manner C#/VB Object-Oriented Programming. Moreover, even though this article may be slightly geared more towards C#, all important VB assessments or similarities are addressed and demonstrated. By the way, keep in mind C# is very case sensitive. Incidentally, don't be put off at the length of this article, a lot of it is simply repeated code examples for both languages.
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.NET Threading Part II
by Randy Charles Morin
This is the second article of two parts on .NET threading. In this second part, I will discuss further the synchronization objects in the System.Threading .NET namespace, thread local storage, COM interoperability and thread states.
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.NET Threading Part I
by Randy Charles Morin
The first in a two part series, introducing how to create and manipulate threads with the .NET framework, including creating a thread, thread pools, syncronization, race conditions and timers.
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XML transformations in .NET - Part I
by JLogic
An introduction to using XSL transformations on XML documents, and how to perform these in VB .NET using the XslTransform class.
