 | WPF Layout Controls - GroupBox
The fifteenth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial looks at another WPF layout control. In this instalment it's the GroupBox control, which allows related controls to be arranged into a group with a common header. |
 | Visual Studio Exception Code Snippet
When you are creating a custom exception class, there are several constructors that you should provide in addition to the default, parameter-less constructor. To quickly create code for these constructors, you can use a Visual Studio code snippet. |
 | Retrieve Drive, File and Folder Names
Many software projects involve interaction with the file system. When this requires that a list of drive letters is generated, or that a drive or folder's files and subfolders are retrieved, the Directory class can be used to obtain the list. |
 | Parallel Programming
This is the first in a series of articles introducing the parallel programming techniques that are available in the C# programming language and the .NET framework version 4.0. The first part describes some of the concepts of parallel programming. |
| Relational Database Concepts for SQL Server
This is the first in a series of articles describing the use of Microsoft's SQL Server database management system (DBMS). The tutorial is aimed at software developers using SQL Server for data storage. Part one reviews database concepts and terminology. |
| Creating a WPF Project in Visual Studio
The third part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial explains how a new WPF Application project can be created in Visual Studio and describes the basic Visual Studio windows used to edit the XAML design and code. |
 | Obtaining Results from Parallel Tasks
The tenth part of the Parallel Programming in .NET tutorial examines the generic Task<T> class. This is a subclass of the Task class seen previously that permits a result to be generated and accessed from the calling thread. |
| Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense Improvements
Visual Studio 2010 provides a feature named Intellisense, which displays suggestions for keywords, classes, structures and member names as code is entered into the editor. Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense offers several improvements over previous versions. |
 | C# Namespace Alias Qualifier
Namespaces are ideal for organising your classes and structures. As software increases in size, the probability of namespace and class names colliding and causing ambiguity problems increases. The namespace alias qualifier decreases this possibility. |
 | SQL Server Indexes Part 1
The fifteenth part of the SQL Server Programming Fundamentals tutorial describes indexes. Indexes provide a lookup facility for a table, allowing rows to be found more quickly and without the need to scan the data in every row when querying a table. |