Kev introduces the OOP features of C# as they apply to ASP.NET Web development. By the end, you should have a strong grasp of exactly what OOP is, and why it's such a powerful and important aspect of ASP.NET. More info

This step-by-step article describes how to use the members that are provided by the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET run-time library in a Visual C# .NET application. More info

Back in my dark days of Procedural Programming, I remember someone giving me a problem, then banging out a few (hundred) lines of code, achieving my goal, and going on with my life. The next time a similar problem would arise, I’d rewrite, or in some cases, cut & paste my old code to achieve a similar, yet slightly different outcome. More info

An abstract factory provides an interface for creating families of related objects without specifying their concrete classes. More info

Here are some Quick tips to get you started when migrating a J2EE application to .NET. More info

Custom Attributes in C# (C Sharp), Part I Basics. This article is introduction of C sharp custom attributes and provides a step by step instructions on how to create and use them. More info

This step-by-step article shows you how to retrieve information from a text file, and then use an ArrayList class to display that information to the user. More info

The Microsoft .NET team has done a good job by providing us a rich set of Exception classes. Most of the time, these exception classes are sufficient enough to handle any common error situation. However, it may be required that our application would need some additional exception classes, that are not available in .NET Framework. More info

This step-by-step article describes how to use the QueryPerformanceCounter function to time application code. When you test code to identify performance bottlenecks, you want to use the highest resolution timer that the system has to offer. More info

This article shows you how to programmatically add and configure a few commonly used controls on a Windows form. Event handling has been omitted from the sample code. The Microsoft .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) provides many visual controls that you can use to build a Windows Forms application. You can add and configure controls at design time in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, or you can add and configure controls programmatically at run time. More info