By Tom Archer Go to page 1 2 Next One of the first tasks I encountered when I started working with Managed C and ADO.NET was that of reading image data from a SQL Server database and then either saving or displaying the images. As an example the standard SQL Server Northwind database has a table Employees that includes a Binary Large Object...

The following are Visual C extensions to the ANSI C and ANSI C standards Keywords Microsoft extends the C language with several additional keywords. For a complete list see C Keywords in the C Language Reference. Keywords with two leading underscores are Microsoft extensions. Out of Class Definition of static const Integral or enum Members...

By Nick Wienholt Go to page 1 2 Next The types within the System.CodeDom namespace are extremely important to most Managed C applications regardless of whether the code actually uses these types directly. Wizard-generated code has always formed a large part of Visual C applications and by virtue of its multi-language support .NET needed a technology...

Vishwas Lele This article assumes you re familiar with .NET C and COM Level of Difficulty 1 2 3 Download the code for this article DCOMSuds.exe 296KB SUMMARY Now that you re writing managed code you ll certainly want to use your existing COM components but you can t simply call them directly. Instead you have to wrap the COM component in a...

By Tom Archer Programmatically accessing the Windows registry has always been a bit of a convoluted task. For this reason a myriad C classes have been created over the years to enable easier and more intuitive access to the registry from Windows applications. Thankfully the task of reading and writing registry keys and values is monumentally easier...

By Kate Gregory I have a pet peeve. I hate to read C doesn t have some feature> but C does." Or sometimes it s worded some feature> which was always missing from C is now in C ." These annoy me because while they are technically true they are not usefully true. The feature under discussion may not be part...

By Radu Braniste Go to page 1 2 Next The following is a non-exhaustive list of recurring idioms in BREW considered mainly from a C perspective. This is by no means a new enterprise but the existing information is mostly scattered in articles the BREW Forum 1 or knowledge bases 2 3 . The initial title was Design Patterns in BREW...

by Sam Gentile 03 03 2003 Welcome back Last time around in the first article of the series I focused on what Managed C was some of its advantages and roles as well as scenarios in which it excelled. One of those scenarios is the focus of the second article of this series the ability to mix managed and unmanaged code in the same module . This...

By Kate Gregory C templates are like a secret weapon for developers. Those who never got around to learning C because it s really complicated" and it has all kinds of funky features no one would ever use" have no idea what we can do with templates. In my previous column I showed how the collection templates in the Standard...

by Vincent W. Mayfield Introduction This article presents a quick and dirty tutorial to get you up and running and creating applications for Windows CE with Visual C . If your interested in the basics of Windows CE see the article titled Microsoft Windows CE An Overview. This article will focus on Visual C for Windows CE. It assumes that you are...

by Randy Charles Morin Read Comments Rate this resource Viewed 183 times Rating 3 users 3.67 out of 5 Next I m often asked for a HowTo tutorial on using ADO with C . It is highly likely that I ve written more ADO with C than anybody on the planet. I often talk about how nice it is to do database programming with ADO and C . But this combination...

Mike Kelly This article assumes you re familiar with C and XML Level of Difficulty Download the code for this article SmartDocuments.exe 159KB SUMMARY One of the coolest new parts of Office 2003 is a programmability feature called Smart Documents which allows developers to augment Word and Excel documents with programmable content and behavior....

By Tom Archer Welcome to this week s installment of .NET Tips Techniques Each week award-winning Architect and Lead Programmer Tom Archer demonstrates how to perform a practical .NET programming task using either C or Managed C Extensions. In my two previous .NET Tips Techniques articles I illustrated how to serialize objects and...

By Tom Archer Welcome to this week s installment of .NET Tips Techniques Each week award-winning Architect and Lead Programmer Tom Archer demonstrates how to perform a practical .NET programming task using either C or Managed C Extensions. When using the .NET Framework you will implement try catch blocks to handle specific exceptions that...

By Tom Archer Welcome to this week s installment of .NET Tips Techniques Each week award-winning Architect and Lead Programmer Tom Archer demonstrates how to perform a practical .NET programming task using either C or Managed C Extensions. Serialization is the mechanism by which objects are written to disk in binary form. It is a quick and...