here will be times when you’ll need to hand-code your .NET Compact Framework controls, without using the drag-and-drop feature of Visual Studio .NET. For example, you may not know how
This LED (Light Emitting Diode) control displays positive long integers, and it is particularly useful for counters. It has a few simple properties that allow you to set the control’s
s a database programmer, when you don’t know where the tables and columns you need to do your job are, you’re dead in the water. You can browse through Enterprise
n a previous column I explained the rules of POD initialization. The rules of class member initialization are radically different, due to the fact that, in certain contexts, member initialization
Presenting information on the web can be a challenge, especially when you need to show more information than fits neatly on a given screen. This article presents a way to
WordHelper is a C# class that helps working with MS Word 2000 documents and simplifies the programmatic construction of a Word document. It has methods to launch a Word instance,
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This freeware ActiveX control makes it extremely easy to save and load controls’ property values to and from the registry or INI files. Creating a “binding” between a property and
icrosoft originally designed NTFS (New Technology File System) for its NT series of operating systems. Over time, NTFS was improved and it is now being used on the newer server