Zip and Unzip files programmatically
Recently one of the reader of DotNetBips.com posted a question on the discussion forums about compressing and decompressing files via code. There is no obvious answer to this question because C# and VB.NET lack this functionality. However, J# does have a way to zip and unzip files programmatically.......
Breathing new life into Tree Surgeon
As I took over the maintenance of Tree Surgeon from Mike Roberts, there are millions (well dozens maybe) of ideas buzzing around in my head. We're tracking these ideas using the Issue Tracker on CodePlex. This will allow you to add new ideas as well as vote on existing ones. The strategy here (as i......
SmartCodeGenerator CTP 2.4 Released
SmartCodeGenerator CTP 2.4, 4 Jan 2007 contains support for .Net2.0 and now you get out of the box DBSchemaProvider for MSSQL2000, MSSQL2005, Oracle and MySql (with complete source code).
This version offers VisualStudioProjectTemplate and ItemTemplate for both C# and Vb.Net.
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Toolkit Extender for creating WPF/E components
If you haven't already seen ScottGu's post on WPF/E , I'd recommend checking it out. WPF/E is a new technology that opens up incredible new possibilities for improving the richness and interactivity of the web. Scott links to a few demos, and the WPF/E install is quick simple, and even works on a M......
OnChanged Event for User Controls
In this article I will show some ways how to create user controls with OnChanged event . The examples are written using VB.Net for Windows applications.
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Generics in VB.Net 2.0
This articles comes in series with my last article - Limitations in ArrayLists. In this article, I specifically talk about Generics and how they improve upon arraylists and how they solve the issues posed by ArrayLists....
VB.Net Defensive Event Publishing using Interfaces
In order to ensure that our events behave as intended we can use interfaces to control access, the classes that subscribe to the events, and the event registration process. To do this, we can write "observer"-type interfaces for notification, subscription and un-subscription to events because the V......
VB.Net Yield Return Iterator
One interesting new feature of the VB.Net is the “yield” keyword. Basically it is used to iterate through objects returned by a method. It creates a state engine in IL so you can create methods that retain their state and don’t have to go through the pain of maintaining state in your code....
'I know VB.NET well. Is that of no use to you?' - Developers and Recruiters dilema
It's been a popular debate since the inception of .NET, if C# is better or VB.NET is better as a programming language.And for whatever be the reasons and the differences between the borh , the debates have always concluded with the note that "It's...(read more)...
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements Released
Microsoft has just dropped a set of Visual Studio 2005 PowerToys. Here's what you get:Source Code Outliner : The Source Outliner tool is a Visual Studio extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them inside the editor.......
Speaking at the Orange County C# Users Group - October 17th
I'll be giving a talk this Tuesday, October 17th at the Orange County C# Users Group on Asynchronous Web Services in .NET V2. If you live in the area and are interested in seeing how Web Services can be called sychronously and asynchronously swing on by for a discussion of callbacks, poll......
AjaxPro Release include VS Template now
As I mentioned already that new AjaxPro releases will include a simple Visual Studio .NET 2005 template for C# and VB.NET. You can download the latest version 6.9.22.2 including this file at the CodePlex project site.
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C# and VB.NET Visual Studio .NET 2005 Template
I will add the VS.NET 2005 project templates for C# and VB.NET to the next releases, too. A current version is available at http://groups.google.com/group/ajaxpro/browse_thread/thread/594a1d725ac5c201/f0a0aabea3e343c8#f0a0aabea3e343c8.
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