Here’s a simple routine to sort a collection of objects posted by Jan Tielens. Dim customers As New ArrayList Or you can use the Sort method of the strong typed collection, inheriting from Collec...

Here’s a tip I came across on GDN. Basically, you can use ILDASM` to extract all of the resources from an assembly (in addition to the IL code). A specific example would be to extract all of the ...

Want to know a little bit about how the GC works and how to use the IDisposable pattern? Instead of reading about it, watch the show. If you have something to say about it, Brad Abrams (Microsoft...

First there was GotDotNet and ASP.NET. Then there was WindowsForms.com. Now there’s a Smart Devices Developer Community from Microsoft. :-) One article of interest is the Writing Mobile Games Us...

Code Project has a simple (but very useful) project that will convert your VS.NET 2003 projects to VS.NET 2002. Not only is there a simple project for this, the article associated with the project ...

Here are a couple of links to help people get started using VS.NET and VB.NET/C#. Several people on the GDN message boards have expressed that they are having a hard time finding resources to lear...

I’m going that have to pick this up. I have to say that I’ve very impressed with the quality of the WMV HD format. According to Sean Alexander, it will be “nearly three and a half times the resol...

This is a pretty useful macro to add to the IDE. It allows you to mark a region of your code, activate this macro and it will enclose the marked area in a #region block. Sub OutlineSelection() ...

Stephen Swienton (the VP of FWDNUG) writes an outstanding praise for Microsoft commitment to supporting the Microsoft developer community in Fort Worth, TX. I agree completely :-) Chad Osgood chim...

Richard Blewett has put together a shared memory component written in C# that uses Win32 Interop that allows you to use shared memory to pass serialized types and object graphs. He writes: I’ve c...