In day to day coding, I found myself using a lot of disposable objects like DbConnection, Font, etc. And so, naturally, putting this code block inside a using statement is common sense. In theory, I know that when you use a using block in your code, your code is guaranteed to be disposed without having...

I wonder how many of us litter our code with this particular line? How do you use them? Do you know what you need to watch out when you do use them? Is it necessary to put this line of code in our code? What is the consequence of putting this line into your code? What's the right way to use Debug...

This seems like pretty basic functionality of a number type, but I can't seem to be able to find any built-in function in any of .Net number type that support decimal (decimal, double) or the System.Math class to do this. In any case, if you find yourself in need to find out if a number has a decimal...

This is the list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment. TestDriven.NET - makes it easy to run unit tests with...

Baru aja deliver talk di seminar sehari di Universitas Pakuan, Bogor. Memenuhi undangan dari Himpunan Mahasiswa Ilmu Koputer-nya. Sesuai permintaan, saya membawakan topik "From C++ to C#". Intinya adalah belajar C# bagi mereka yang punya C++ background. Jd, learn C# thru C++. By comparing the...

When you use .NET Activator.CreateInstance to create a new object of a certain type, make sure you reference the Project / DLL that contain the type definition or load it manually somehow to an AppDomain . Otherwise your call will fail. Say you have the following solution: Solution Foo Project Bar1 IUser...

Recently I took my week end to found out what Virtual earth can do, as I have such an experience using MapInfo MapX (now MapXtreme) for couples of my old projects, for some reason I figure it out that might be interesting if I can combine VE and Silverlight. In my sample here, I'll show you how we...

Bagi penggemar C# (termasuk saya nih), maukah anda berpindah ke F# ? ok lah, maksud saya menambah koleksi kemampuan bahasa pemrograman di CV, dengan F#? hmmm...; topik postingan saya kali ini sebenarnya saya curi dari blog coding experiments , jadi di blog itu si empunya hendak membandingkan performansi...

Membuat User Control DayEdit Dalam membuat usercontrol DayEdit beberapa control Silberlight 2.0 yg saya gunakan antara lain : DataGrid, tempat menampilkan data Event DatePicker, untuk menentukan tgl event Button Control, untuk melakukan aksi CRUD. Sebagai informasi tambahan dalam detail XAML DayEdit...