The DataSet type is a complex in-memory container for data. The DataSet class contains a collection of DataTable instances that contain the relational data stored in a data set. Each DataTable instance contains a collection of DataColumn instances that define the schema of the data within the table,... [More]

The DataSet type is a complex in-memory container for data. The DataSet class contains a collection of DataTable instances that contain the relational data stored in a data set. Each DataTable instance contains a collection of DataColumn instances that define the schema of the data within the table,... [More]

Data sources in a Windows Forms application are composed of object instances. A data source may be a single instance of a single object, or it may be a collection of object instances, where the collection itself is an instance of a container object. Those instances may be of almost any type, includi... [More]

A number of things come into play to make data binding happen. First, you need the data. From the perspective of a presentation layer client application, this comes in the form of in-memory data sources. You need controls or components that are designed to work with that data to automatically presen... [More]

Download code Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a C&C infrastructure that is integrated within Windows. It provides three primary capabilities: Exposing state information regarding a configurable entity Invoking control methods on a configurable entity Publishing even... [More]

Enumerator -- A State Machine. A  .NET 1.0 enumerator is basically a state machine object that implements the following interface: public interface IEnumerator {     object Current { get; }     bool MoveNext();     void Reset(); } The current... [More]

Enumerator -- A State Machine. A  .NET 1.0 enumerator is basically a state machine object that implements the following interface: public interface IEnumerator {     object Current { get; }     bool MoveNext();     void Reset(); } The current... [More]

The .NET Framework provides two ways to sample the current time: DateTime.Now and Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp(). DateTime.Now is accurate—it tells you the current time—but it only has 16 millisecond precision. Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() is as precise as your CPU instruction counter and can di... [More]

The standard .NET Framework offers quite a few generic functions to munipulate arrays, however there are some functionalities where extra code will be needed such as Appending to the array, removing an element from the array, or removing all elements that fall under a condition. Background Sho... [More]

Download code   Introduction This is a very small article to illustrate C# access modifiers. This article is for beginners but even if you are an expert this article may be useful as a quick reminder when the brain cells slow down - hey, I will probably need it soon.   Definitio... [More]

Introduction Disconnected Enterprise Applications are difficult to design, especially when data is critical. There are several methodologies available but not all of them fit well. Some of the possible implementations may include Web Services, Message Queuing, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architect... [More]

Some time ago, I have involved in a National Energy company information system (CIS) development. It is actually the project developed by my company and I am a junior of the developer team. We start it by explaining and discussing about all the detail and requirement of database because th... [More]

Download code    while ago I wrote an article on a strategy for extending the string class in the .NET Framework.  The problem with extending many .NET 2.0 classes was that they were sealed, so you could not inherit from them, making extending them painful.  Well it looks like ... [More]

Download code   In this article I want to show you an approach of how can a structured enumeration be handled by the C#. Background While playing with my little home project I stumbled upon a problem of having all those category enumerations displayed in a tree. I wanted to keep it simpl... [More]

In this article I hope to show you how to use attributes to create a dynamic converter so that you do not need to create a new converter for every conversion. I developed this to facilitate me in converting a DTO object to a Domain (Entity) object. What this article assumes you know or have: ... [More]