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Automatically colour the text/syntax of string submitted to a RichTextBox, by parsing the Rich Text Format

A new kind of progress bar for .NET 2.0.

A chat program that supports Unicode input and picture transfer.

Learn what .NET 2.0 offers you to read/write App.Config files

Many portals collect user opinion by conducting polls. This sample application developed in ASP.NET 2.0 will show how to develop such an application. The administrator can manage poll questions using a web page (PollManager.aspx). The administrator can specify the start and end dates for which the poll remains active. The poll question along with voting options (Yes, No, Don't Know) are displayed to the end user (Default.aspx). The interesting part of the application is the graphical display of the poll results. The code uses System.Drawing classes to render bar graphs. The application uses SQL Server Express database to store the data.

Slitherz is a variation of the snake game. It is a very clean and functional game written in C#.

If you never need to use compression for your applications, consider yourself lucky. For the rest of us, the good news is that .NET 2.0 has two new classes to handle compression and decompression streams. Find out when, and how, to use these valuable facilities.

Babies and other animals love nothing better than to have a whack at the keyboard, with all sorts of unpredictable results. This application demonstrates how to trap keystrokes before they can do any damage.

This tutorial delves into the relationship between declarative and imperative programming in Atlas, and how these can be used to create drag and drop functionality in a web client.

This sample shows how to switch between security contexts within the same process. It also demostrates how this can be done on a single or multiple threads.