Learn how Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 changes everything you thought you knew about workflow. Also, learn why using string primary keys is a bad idea; find out where to get a data grid for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF); overcome the annoying issue of files not loading at runtime; and copy files into the executable directory.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 01/01/2009
VB and C# share many similarities, but also have a handful of significant differences; learn what you need to know to program effectively in VB as a C# programmer.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 12/01/2008
Take control of casting exceptions, determine whether parent records have children in LINQ to SQL, and resolve cref references in XML comments.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2008
Visual Studio Team System's Code Metrics feature isn't perfect, but if you understand what it's measuring and how, you can use it to gain insight into your apps' overall complexity and to spot potential problem areas.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 10/01/2008
Learn how to exclude attributes from the code that Entity Framework generates for you automatically.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2008
Customize your application startup screen and add log-in functionality; learn how to view derived types in your projects; check for improper GUIDs; and drill down on extension methods.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/01/2008
Learn how to work around a couple bugs in Excel to return double values; drill down on lists with anonymous types; and learn the
difference between Build and Rebuild.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 07/01/2008
Clear out textboxes using recursion and LINQ; use VB literals to transform an XML document; and eliminate an annoying artifact of VB internals.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2008
Take advantage of the System.AddIn namespace to handle logic external to your application; don't get caught by Excel's one-based indexes; and make LINQ extension methods work with ArrayLists.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 04/01/2008
Learn to pass anonymous types outside the method in which they're created; take advantage of closures when working with lambda expressions; drilldown on overloading; initialize static fields properly; and see where KeyedCollections improve performance.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2008
Kathleen discovers a bug in the Visual Basic 9.0 compiler. Also, resolving recursion problems; binding properties in the Workflow designer; some guidelines on using extension methods; moving to .NET 3.5, and more.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 01/01/2008
Learn how to share resources among several projects across project boundaries in Visual Studio 2005 and VS 2008. Also, learn about Microsoft's inclusion of IDataErrorInfo in the .NET 3.5 additions to WPF and drill down on how to handle non-standard searches in dictionary classes.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 12/01/2007
User Account Control (UAC) issues usually result from improperly allowing administrator-level access in your applications. Learn how UAC works and make such problems a thing of the past.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2007
Learn what enabling the application framework in VB actually does and what an invariant culture is and how you take advantage of it.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 10/01/2007
Learn how to copy all the custom data formats in objects to the clipboard and determine which ones are appropriate when you paste.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2007