Taming Trees: Building Branching Structures

• Verify the integrity of directory trees using Checksum Verifier Small utility to verify chec ...

• .NET Building Blocks: Custom User Control Fundamentals Find out the gritty details required to create, test, use, inherit, install, and distribute .NET User Controls of all ty ...

• Reading Unmanaged Data Into Structures In this article we will look into reading data from an unmanaged array of bytes into a managed data structure. We will use multiple approaches to optimize the proc ...

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Providing Visual Feedback with the...  Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Framework helps page developers design more interactive web pages by streamlining the postback mechanism. In traditional web pages, a full postback involves the browser re-requesting the page, which is then re-rendered. This re-rendered page markup is returned, in its ...

• Building a .NET Console Application for Scheduled Tasks This article walks you through the process of building a simple .NET command-line application that is designed to be scheduled to execute. The sample application will send an HTTP request to a web server and send the returned HTML as the body of an email message. Once the application is complete, ...

• Building a Visual Studio DebuggerVisualizer with a Custom Serializer For most any Serializeable object, making a DebuggerVisualizer is exceeding simple and examples abound. However, if you are trying to build a DebuggerVisualizer for an object which is not Serializable or takes too long to Serialize and Deserialize, things are not quite so simp ...

• Building ASP.NET Web Pages Dynamically in the Code-Behind - Part 2: A Form Example This article shows a technique for building ASP.NET Web pages where the entire page contents are created dynamically in code-be ...

• A Textured Triangle Control for Silverlight 2 - the Basic Building Block for 3D This article is all about implementing a triangle primitive as custom control in Silverlight 2.0 that can be used for 3D effects in Silveri ...

• Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ - Part 4 In the fourth part of this series, Keyvan talks about the unit testing concepts related to the MVC pattern and how Microsoft has adapted these concepts for its ASP.NET MVC framework. He shows these principles and the process that should be followed to unit test an ASP.NET MVC applicat ...

• Top 10 mistakes when building Flex applications Avoid the common mistakes ranging from breaking the standard browser experiences to overusing animati ...