The following is from Adam Nathan’s CLR FAQ discussing why you would use char arrays instead of strings when using Interop. If your using Interop, this is something very, very important. I’ve con...

I’m working on adding an articles section here on AddressOf.com. Using Shawn A. Van Ness’s blog and an article on CodeProject.com (both in C# of course); I’ve put together an article on how to set...

I happened across a sample that Shawn A. Van Ness posted showing a minimalistic demonstration of a windowless NotifyIcon sample. It was written in C#, so I figured I’d go ahead and translate it fo...

There’s got to be an easier way to do this. FileStream only allows you to use a Byte array when reading/writing. I’ve got a COM object that gives me an array of Int16 values formatted as a System...

Although VB.NET includes support for the VB6 style file FreeFile, Open, Get, Put, Close, etc. functions; they are ridiculously slower than using FileStream (or even their VB6 counterparts - which i...

An interested soundbyte by Don Box about VB.NET and the VB.NET team. I’m also writing a lot of code again, primarily in C# but I’ve been tempted to use VB for something. The VB.NET team is actu...

“One thing we tried to do with the CLR and FX is provide a consistent asynchronous programming model.” Chris Brumme starting off his blog entry. He discusses several options for asynchronous ope...

Question: How do I implement a read only property of an interface implementation but allow the same property to be read write when accessing the property through the class directly? Public Interfa...

Here’s a blog to definitely add to your watch list. Dr. GUI’s Bits and Bytes. [edit] OK, so I’m not the only one that has noticed this. Some interesting comments have been posted by Julia Lerman...

OK, so this isn’t .NET related, but I think it’s important enough to pass on this HDTV tip. I noticed a blog entry by Sean Alexander discussing his frustration of having to pay about $500 for an a...