Resharper Open Source License = Awesome (and free!)

A while ago I heard about an add-on for Visual Studio called Jetbrains Resharper – most people reading this article have probably heard of it, too. Anyway, I downloaded the evaluation version from the Resharper website and tried it out. If you are prepared to deal with a very slight slow-down in your Visual Studio environment (inevitable with add-ons) it’s an add-on well worth investigating. From the...

Digital Formula Libraries – Console applications

Starting now I’m going to start putting up some useful methods I use in some of my applications. They’ll all be in .zip format and be licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Accordingly, each .zip archive will contain the relevant code for the article you’re reading at the time and also a copy of gpl.txt, the freely-available text version of the GNU GPL. Cool. ...

C# Full-screen application – Complete application example

Yesterday I posted a quick update to an article I wrote back in 2007 entitled How to make a full-screen Windows app using VB.NET. Aside from 1 or 2 people saying “Oh man why don’t you be a man and write it using C#?” I reckon it’s a good idea to do that anyway. Thanks Scott for the suggestion. And thanks Phil for pointing me in the right direction with the DLL import stuff. ...

How to use SQL Server CE with C# 3.5 – The absolute basics

I’m writing this article because a small project I’ve been working on required me to look for information on using SQL Server CE with C# 3.5. I couldn’t find very many useful articles on the topic so I’ve decided to write my own and summarise some of the useful bits I found....

Follow Up – List active directory users – This time in C#

In this article I’m going to carry on with the follow-ups to posts I wrote in the past about various topics. Today’s topic is still on the subject of using .NET to list the users in Active Directory although this time we’re going to do it in C# (the original article about doing this with VB.NET can be found here). I wrote the first post and sample application using VB.NET back when I (perhaps)...