Windows 7 hides a number of locale-inappropriate fonts by default, and allows users to toggle this property as well. Here's how to honor that setting.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/14/2010
WebMatrix Beta 2 is integrated with NuPack, a new open-source package manager Microsoft announced today. The company also released the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, which supports the Razor view-engine.
The Enum or enumeration is one of the fundamental constructs in the .NET Framework, serving as an easy-to-remember set of names for a series of fixed values that are logically related. It turns out that there is a surprising amount to know about the Enum construct.
Console applications are alive and well in Administrator Land. Here’s how your console application can leave instructions for the command processor upon your exit.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/26/2010
On VB author Joe Kunk shows how you can quickly discover the orientation of an unknown database using dynamic queries.
Administrators get no respect, either, in this world of Least Privileged Users. Here's how you can set aside those precautions, and still get at the information your users need.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/27/2010
Joe Kunk looks at how to manage a numeric system that extends to the entire alphabet.
As Microsoft shuts down its newsgroup server, the community resource lives on. You just need to know where to look for it.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/16/2010
On VB author Joe Kunk talks about his impression of C#.
On VB author Joe Kunk provides a look into the code behind his automated source code backup solution.
On VB author Joe Kunk looks into how an automated source code backup utility can provide a vital, extra level of protection in team-based projects.
With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010.
On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to use the power of Silverlight 4 COM automation and local file system access to turn Microsoft Word into a report writer for Silverlight.
We all tend to obsess on optimizations at times, often needlessly. Here's how to figure out if all your extra work is paying off.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/18/2010
After a thick April patch, this month's security update, released today, is light with only two "critical" fixes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/11/2010
Windows provides numerous ways to tell an application how to size and position itself on startup. Here's how you can honor those requests.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/04/2010
Sometimes your best option is to bypass the .NET Framework and make function calls to the native Win32 API.
Karl Peterson returns with another batch of tricks designed to improve the IDE.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 04/12/2010
There are countless tricks folks have learned to use within the classic Visual Basic IDE over the years. Here are a few of mine.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 04/06/2010
In the March C# Corner column, Patrick Steele explained how to use LINQ outside of databases to make code easier to read and maintain.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2010