This article describes NNTP in C#. It explains how to connect to a newsgroup and grab the news and then re-use the information for your own use. More info

In this article let us see about C# and it's Features More info

This article is mainly focus on design patterns using C# and this is the first article of the series.In this article i will be discussing Builder pattern which is quite similar to Factory Pattern. More info

One of most repetitive, boring and thus error prone tasks when accessing databases from C# (or other language) is writing SQL commands. And when there is explicit SQL, no matter whether it's in stored procedures or inside your code, it has to be maintained. For instance if column is added to database, that one must be added to all 4 commands (INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE - aka CRUD), and there are often more than one SELECTs with different filters. There are certainly times when you must write some SQL, but it would be better if machine could create as much as possible. This article is about writing some code that can do that job. It was made for SQL Server but you shouldn't have too much problems to customize it to db you use. More info

Boxing and unboxing is a essential concept in C#’s type system. With Boxing and unboxing one can link between value-types and reference-types by allowing any value of a value-type to be converted to and from type object. Boxing and unboxing enables a unified view of the type system wherein a value of any type can ultimately be treated as an object. More info

This article simply describes how to download files in C#. More info

The first of fifteen lessons exclusively available on Programmers Heaven to teach you about the .NET platform and the C# language. This lesson introduces the course, details the architecture of the .NET platform and gives a high level overview of the C# language. More info

This is part two of a two part serires on threading in C#. Again, it's fairly complex so make sure you have a good knowledge of what's going on. It describes some of the more advanced features of threading such as the mutex class and thread local storage as well as some more advanced features. More info

This article attempts to provide a tutorial as well as help with the troubleshooting of your own interop issues. I will describe the issues with using libraries written in C# or VB.NET in your VB6 applications. The reason, this is an issue, is because there is a lot of new code available only in C# or VB.NET that access new functionality of the OS. Or it could simply be the case that there is already existing C# code that's not available as a COM library, that you want to use. More info

This article elucidates how to build and install-managed code that will be used from COM applications. A classic COM server is activated using the Service Control Manager (SCM). It looks up numerous information such as CLSIDs, IIDs, ProgIDs etc. More info