Not sure how many of you have needed to use the Microsoft.Ink SDK, but I am currently learning how to use the SDK on my current project. I have to say, that the reconizition that they provide is really, really good. The Ink SDK comes with a TextBox and a PictureBox, but I only need the Text Box, so that...
A couple of months ago I commented on Eric Wise's post titled Know Your Role , wherein Eric expounded on the need for a DBA on software projects. I took exception to the rule that DBA's are required, which sparked several comments and blog posts that seemed to fall just short of calling me an...
Recently I had a conversation about the best day of the week to go live with a new version of an application. In the context of my conversation we were talking about website, but I really don't think the type of application matters so much. Day by Day breakdown of my opinion Monday - I personally...
Have you ever wanted to create a ‘Busy’ or ‘Working’ windows so that your background processing that takes some time to complete does not appear to take that long? The good news is that in .net there is a pretty simple way to accomplish this and you don’t have to do any...
As a long time WinForms developer I always have had the need to swap out the current cursor (mouse pointer, not some database cursor) for another cursor, normally the ‘wait’ cursor, while performing some task after things such as a button click. In the past I have used some pretty straight...
In developing any software application, it's important to keep things as simple as possible and add complexity only when needed. (I spoke about this in a previous post, Planning for vs. Reacting to Change .) On the flip-side, a certain amount of architecture may be assumed at the start of a project...
Another one of the cool new features with .net 2.0 is the ability to create your own custom enumerators for enumerating through collections. I am sure that most of us have had collections that we wanted to loop through, looking for a specific type of item for one reason or another. There are many ways...
So one of the nice new feature in .net 2.0 is the enhanced support for binding business objects to UI controls. This is very nice because it will allow you to write a single line of code that allows the business object and the UI control (text box) to exchange data both upstream and downstream. Setting...
[NOTE: Before you read this, please understand I am a WinForms developer so I can only tell you that I know the code in this article works on WinForms. I assume it will work for WebForms, but not sure.] How many times have you been working on a WinForms app writing some logic in the form to handle events...