Derek Pierson completes his tour de force on beginning game development by showing you how to incorporate different types of terrain and handling collisions between game objects....   Read Article.

Rob Miles steps you through how to use Visual C# to bulk resize the digital images you want to transfer to a portable device, and show while you're on the go....   Read Article.

Learn all about Kevin Marshall's imaginative use of Visual Studio 2005 for his Foosball project, which includes score tracking, player statistics, trash talking taunts using the Microsoft Speech API, and even instant replay....   Read Article.

Learn how to use the great support of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 for managed multithreaded applications?while avoiding much of the complexity that comes with multithreading?in this self-paced hands-on lab....   Read Article.

Explore the opportunities and challenges of migrating traditional Office VBA solutions to managed code....   Read Article.

Learn to display Microsoft Windows Forms from an Excel 2003 workbook, display related records, and write that information into formatted worksheets....   Read Article.

Discover these unexplored features that allow an application to repair itself at runtime, or to install optional components based on the user's interaction with the application....   Read Article.

Learn how to use the Tablet PC Journal Reader Supplemental Component to convert Journal notes to XML and then convert them to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for viewing on the Web or a Pocket PC....   Read Article.

Learn how to use the .NET Compact Framework and SQL Server CE to configure merge replication, build an application user interface, subscribe to a SQL Server publication, modify and synchronize data, and resolve conflicts....   Read Article.

Use this article and sample to help design your mobile application to provide you with the ability to monitor the level of your application's performance and to diagnose errors when technical problems occur in the field....   Read Article.

In the third of a three-part series, learn how to use XML maps to automate a process for storing Excel 2003 formulas in a SQL Server database. Includes downloadable code....   Read Article.

In this third and final piece on custom data binding, Michael extends the sortable binding list developed in Part 2 to include search functionality. Additionally, he creates a custom search UI in lieu of equivalent .NET Framework support....   Read Article.

In the first part of a two-part series on indexing XML data, Oleg Tkachenko examines indexing of standalone XML documents, a native XML concept of IDs, XSLT keys, and introduces IndexingXPathNavigator class....   Read Article.

Learn how to use the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer to plan and diagram an API, following the logical progression from class analysis to class design....   Read Article.

Learn how to use System Designer in Team Architect Edition to define how your applications interoperate as systems....   Read Article.

Learn how the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset enables developers to integrate setup development into their daily development process....   Read Article.

This article describes the CLR integration into the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine in detail and provides some background for answering two integration-related questions....   Read Article.

Collections and Data Binding...   Read Article.

Customizing GINA, Part 1...   Read Article.

Learn about mobile logistics and how to design and develop solutions for Windows Mobile?based Pocket PCs by using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Compact Framework....   Read Article.