Damon Armstrong Contract Coding: Ensuring your Client pays up Damon Armstrong learned the hard way that not having a clearly defined project scope or contract can come back to bite the contracting programmer. Here,... 26 September 2006 21 min read
Phil Wilson Using BITS to Upload Files with .NET Although FTP is commonly used to transfer files over the Internet, it's somewhat unfriendly to firewalls. Phil Wilson shows you how to create a BITS... 04 September 2006 16 min read
Dominick Reed Creating Usable Applications If I had a penny for every person who said "usability is just common sense", I'd have a pretty reasonable stack of pennies - maybe... 21 June 2006 15 min read
Julian Skinner Asynchronous processing in .NET part 1: fundamentals In Windows Forms applications, we often need to perform some complex processing in the background, while still continuing with other tasks, such as monitoring user... 19 June 2006 25 min read
Phil Wilson Build and Deploy a .NET COM Assembly Phil Wilson demonstrates how to build and deploy a .NET COM assembly using best practices, and how to access it from early and late binding... 15 May 2006 28 min read
Douglas Reilly Coming Out as a Cancer Survivor – A Guide for Software Developers A personal perspective on the responsibilities of a cancer-surviving software developer… 06 March 2006 13 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna .NET Collection Management This article focuses on managing a collection of objects using generics, an important addition to the .NET Framework 2.0, and examines the capabilities provided by... 08 December 2005 6 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Custom Events in VB.NET 2005 Visual Basic .NET is well known for its event-driven programming capabilities. VB.NET 2005 adds new functionality for custom events that provides flexibility in handling and... 26 September 2005 7 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Douglas McDowell Douglas McDowell is the director of operations for business intelligence at Solid Quality Learning, a mentor, solution architect, and project manager.. … 05 August 2005 4 min read
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week – Bill Vaughn William Vaughn is a well-known author who writes about Visual Basic and database-related topics. He previously worked for Microsoft, and now runs Beta V Corp.… 11 July 2005 15 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Bill Bach Bill Bach, whose company, Goldstar Software, is perhaps the leading source for training and support for users of Btrieve and Pervasive databases. … 05 July 2005 10 min read