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Many beginners in the C# or VB.NET development category sometimes want to be able to apply themes or styles to their application. This rendering class allows you to easily customize the appearance of your C#/VB.NET applications. This was inspired by the Office2007Renderer, which enables you to apply a multitude of Office 2007 styles to an application. After I began using Office2007Renderer, I found that some of the drawing functions caused severe lag on my applications. So, I took it into my own hands to develop a new Office2007Renderer of my own. From there, it developed into a fully editable class.

An article presenting benefits and techniques for using test-driven development in .NET, specifically examining the NUnit testing framework.

A lot has been written on the subject of test driven development, and especially on the idea that tests ought to be written first. This is an ideal that I strive for, however, I have a tendency to write the unit tests afterwards.

Some people learn better by example. This article, rather than going in to great length about the principles of test driven development, will walk the reader through the process of building and testing an algorithm by writing the tests first, then changing the method being tested so that it fulfills the tests.

The final code and all the unit tests can be found in the accompanying download. This will require NUnit and Visual Studio 2005.

SharePoint is without question a fast-growing platform and Microsoft is making lots of money with it. It’s been around for almost a decade and grew from a small list and document management application into an application development platform on top of ASP.NET using its own API to manage content in the SharePoint Content Database.

Over the years many things have changed – but some haven’t – like – SharePoint still uses a single database table to store ALL items in any SharePoint List. And this brings me straight into the #1 problem I have seen when working with companies that implemented their own solution based on SharePoint…

The aim of this article is to give developers a complete set of steps that will allow them to setup their own isolated development environment for developing websites with ASP.NET, Subversion, and Windows XP.

Use test driven development processes to determine the issues affecting application architecture and design with regards to .NET remoting.

This article describes the suite of Visual Studio controls, tools and samples designed for mobile business application development, targeting Microsoft .NET Compact Framework.

Dino Esposito continues his series on ASP.NET 2.0 controls development with this look at how to create template properties in a custom control.

When ASP was first released, Web programming was more difficult because you needed IIS to serve your ASP pages. Later, ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 made everything easier by introducing the Web site model of development. Instead of creating a new project inside Visual Studio, the Web site model lets you point to a directory and start writing pages and code. Furthermore, you can quickly test your site with the built-in ASP.NET Development Server, which hosts ASP.NET in a local process and obviates the need to install IIS to begin developing. The beauty of the Web site model is that you can develop your Web application without thinking about packaging and deployment. Need another class? Add a .cs file to the App_Code directory and start writing. Want to store localizable strings in a resource file? Add a .resx file to the App_GlobalResources directory and type in the strings. Everything just works; you don't have to think about the compilation and deployment aspect at all..

Windows Forms 2.0 is far richer than any Windows application development platform that preceded it, with tons of improvements across the board. And they're all waiting for you when you create a new Windows Forms project.