Here's a short overview of four major user interface patterns in their original form, put together and illustrated. A bit of information is added to patterns (with notes to highlight these additions) to show a slightly different viewpoint and different ideas.
If you are using the Entity Framework (EF), then you need to understand the best practices for improving its performance, or you will suffer the consequences!
This article takes a closer than normal look at everyone's favourite data structure - the .NET dictionary. There are quite a lot of different dictionaries classes in .NET these days, so I'm going to explore how they work, what their differences are and where to use them.
In this article, you will see creating a plugin is almost exactly same as create a regular ASP.NET MVC web application, it only need to create a plugin manifest file for each plugin.
Which is faster, QueryLightBulbFrobStatusEx() or __WGetBulbFrobberState2()?
Hold it right there, buddy. Before answering that question I must give you my standard six-part rant about why I probably cannot sensibly answer questions that begin "which is faster".
Imagine if we wanted to display a list of enums within a list, and we actually wanted to have more descriptive values, friendly names if you like, but still maintain the underlying enum value selected where required. This article will show you how to do the following, using WPF.