Articles in Category: 'Programming'

Fun with C# Lists… both of them. Part Three of Three This article is the Final Part in the series. Read Part 2 here Introduction In this final article of our series on using Lists we will be working with List some more and showing you how we take the values from within the List and...

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Fun with C# Lists… both of them. Part Two of Three This article is Part Two in the series. Read Part 1 here Introduction In this part of the article we will be continuing to work with various methods within the List class. We will continue to show you how easy it is to work with Lists...

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Fun with C# Lists… both of them. Part One of Three Introduction In this article we will be working with List, in 2.0 C# implemented List to allow you to utilize Lists of any kind and to easily manipulate those Lists with some built in methods. We will explore a couple...

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Writing to Event Logs Introduction In this article we will explain how you can utilize the Event Log in order to track information in your application or display any errors that might have been thrown in your application. Here are some internal system logs to use if you do not want to create your own...

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Using Enums Introduction In this example we will show you how to retrieve an Enum member given its integer value or its name. This can be very useful when you are utilizing Enum types within your code, and you need to set an Enum type value, for example, a setting from a configuration file. In this article...

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Display properties for Logical Drives Introduction In this article we will be learning how to locate, display and read the properties of the logical drives on your system. Some of the things we will be learning in this article are: We migrated our web sites to Server Intellect over one weekend and the...

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Create a Messenger style popup window Introduction In this article we will be learning how to create a Messenger style popup window that can be used as an alert for your desktop. This popup alert window will pop up on the bottom right hand corner of the screen and will stay in position for three seconds...

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Using System.Net.Dns in C# Introduction This is a simple application that will demonstrate how you can utilize the System.Net.Dns library to retrieve the Host Name and the IP Addresses associated with your desktop. In order to retrieve the IP Address you need to first locate the host name of your machne...

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Working with Mouse and Key Events In this article we will be working with a few mouse and key related events. For beginners it is hard to distinguish between which events apply to which controls, as well as trying to learn all of the keyboard events versus the mouse events. If you click on a button via...

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How to Convert a String to an Enumeration Value Introduction The easiest and best way to store data such as dates is with enumeration types. This allows you to store such values as days, months and years. You can also use this concept to store other pertinent data such as numbers, calculations, etc…...

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