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Ray Tracing in C# 3.0

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:31:02 GMT

C# PM Luke Hoban has a wonderful post on Ray Tracing in C#.

Host WPF Controls in Windows Forms

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:16:01 GMT

After talking about hosting Windows Forms controls in WPF, now Keyvan talks about hosting WPF controls in Windows Forms.

Simple RSS reader class in C#

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:01:01 GMT

A basic caching RSS reading class for C#. Updates asynchronously.

How to create Microsoft Excel 2007 files on the server

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:16:01 GMT

ExcelPackage provides server-side generation of Excel 2007 spreadsheets. It is a set of classes and wrappers around the .NET 3.0 System.IO.Packaging API and the new Office Open XML file format. It extracts away the complexity of dealing with the individual XML components making it real easy to create sophisticated spreadsheets on the server.

Vista is RTM and pricing

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:58:50 GMT

Vista is officially RTM on November 8.

WPF for beginners: Hello World

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:27:40 GMT

A look at WPF XAML with general starters on styles, events, animations and transformations.

Getting started on WPF and .net 3.0 RC1

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:01:02 GMT

With Vista RC1 running very smoothly, WPF programming is here. Here are a few tips to getting .net 3.0 up and running on a test machine, with a couple of WPF links also.

Microsoft AJAX is the new Atlas

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:54:10 GMT

A brief look at the progress and name changes of Atlas err Microsoft AJAX

Common Sharable Content: A Missing Feature of Web 2.0

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:31:02 GMT

Web 2.0 is taking a very important place among the current trend of web, where rather considering "human to machine communication", "machine to machine communication" and "human to human communication" is regarding more. It has various new approaches which are making the web space better. From my point of view, "Common Sharable Content" concept is EXACTLY what is missing here. Of course this concept encourages the "machine to machine" communication and thus make personal info management over web better.

C# object arrays BinarySearch, Sort and IComparer

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:01:01 GMT

Looking at some basic examples to getting some decent features of object arrays working in .net 1.1

Getting the ID of the UpdatePanel which triggered an asynch postback

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:31:01 GMT

Self explicative I guess!

Atlas HoverMenuExtender example

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:01:06 GMT

Shows how to display extra columns in a GridView with a HoverMenuExtender.

Atlas Extender with code behind

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:31:01 GMT

A simple example of using atlas extenders with server side code behind

Understanding Atlas Extenders

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:54:55 GMT

A very basic look at the Atlas extender.

WPF basic examples

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:17:01 GMT

This article describes some basic knowledge on ContentControls in XAML/WPF