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Exploring Secrets of Persistent Application Settings
The .NET framework makes it easier than ever to create application settings and bind them to controls, but you need to know a few secrets to go beyond basic string settings and avoid problems.
Build a Photo Viewer Using the New FTP Classes in .NET 2.0
Yet another highly useful but underappreciated feature of .NET 2.0? How about the FTPWebRequest and FtpWebResponse classes? These nifty classes let you built FTP file access right into your applications. See how it's done with this handy photo viewer example.
23 Feb 2007, 20:49:29 Source: Build a Photo Viewer Using the New FTP Classes in .NET 2.0
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Customize and Extend Windows Forms Controls
Everybody who writes native Windows applications knows that the Windows Forms controls provided by Microsoft are a great time-saver for oft-used interface components such as text boxes and drop-down lists. But sometimes we need a reusable form control that does things Microsoft hasn't pre-built for us. Learn to extend existing Windows Forms controls with custom functions that will save you time.
Interoperating with Unmanaged Code - PInvoke
Explains how to call WIN APIs and DLLs (unmanaged code) form within the .NET using the Platform Invoke (PInvoke) technique.
Capture Signatures Remotely from Your Pocket PC
You don't have to work for Federal Express to outfit your delivery or salesforce with a remote signature capture and transmission feature. With just a Pocket PC and the simple instructions herein, you'll soon be sending John Hancocks to and from your server with accuracy and grace.
Build a Poll System in ASP.NET
Explains how to build poll application in ASP.NET. Includes sample project with source code.
Retaining Multiple Sets of User Settings
Retaining a single set of user settings for your application is easy. Retaining multiple sets of user settings is much more challenging.
Gain Control of your .NET Logging Using log4net
Don't build logging capabilities for your applications from scratch; you can get robust and flexible logging functionality for your .NET applications with the free open source log4net framework, and then extend it to support custom needs.
Bulky Data Is No Problem Thanks to Compression/Decompression in .NET 2.0
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.
Using WMI From Managed Code
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Common Information Model (CIM). Although WMI is COM-based, Andriy Klyuchevskyy shows you how you can access it from C# and VB.NET through System.Management, thanks to COM Inter-Op.