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Self-installing windows service that monitors computer's WAN address and sends e-mail when it changes

What’s all the buzz about Hadoop? Find out as you learn how to set up a cluster on Windows Azure, how to run a Map/Reduce job using Java, JavaScript and C# Streaming, how to run queries in HIVE, and more.

Many developers find that keeping up with new technologies can be challenging and a drain to limited resources. Sometimes a review of basic .NET and C# skills is useful. This review of extension methods addresses the basic concept and implementation. Thousands of implementations are most certainly found in the industry, but in this article I want to address a few popular and useful ones.

Easily add ribbon to WinForm Application for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5 & 4.0

(v2) How to convince your C# objects to carry extended properties, in real time, and with no modifications in their code. V2 includes a collector for disposable properties.

This article explains how you can use functional programming in C#.

This project will give you the tools needed to compress and decompress files using the Deflate method of compression, and to read and write standard Zip files.

Neural networks can be used to solve a variety of practical problems. James McCaffrey explains what they are and presents C# code that implements a neural network.

Many .NET developers have heard of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) but they don’t quite know what to make of it. Developers working in languages like C# and Visual Basic sometimes shirk dynamic programming languages because they fear the scalability problems that have historically been associated with using them. Also of concern is the fact that languages like Python and Ruby don’t perform compile-time type checking, which can lead to runtime errors that are very costly to find and fix. These are valid concerns that may explain why the DLR hasn’t enjoyed more popularity among mainstream .NET developers in the two years since its official release. After all, any .NET Runtime that has the words Dynamic and Language in its title must be strictly for creating and supporting languages like Python, right?

Embed a functional console window in a C# application.