Articles

Cancelling Parallel Loops

Jan 5 by Richard Carr

The Task Parallel Library includes static methods that provide parallel equivalents of the for and foreach loops. As with parallel tasks, these loops can be cancelled by other processes...

Sort a Multicolumn ListView in C#

Dec 20 by Nipun Tomar

When you are working with the ListView control, you may want to sort its contents based on a specific column. We will see how to do that.

Reading and Writing INI Files

Nov 22 by Richard Carr

Initialization files known as INI files provide a standard means for storing configuration information for software in a text file. Although rarely used by .NET applications, there...

WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.0 released!

Nov 2 by jbe

The open-source framework WAF has been released in the second version. It helps you to create well-structured WPF applications. This is achieved by applying a Layered Architecture and...

DataGrid with integrated field (column) chooser

Oct 13 by Ofir Shemesh

Right click on a DataGrid column header to open the field (columns) chooser and show/hide columns.

WPF 4: Using Input Bindings to Go Mouseless

Oct 1 by Mahesh Sabnis

While creating the UI of an application, we need to adopt techniques that makes the user comfortable with the app. If the existing user is habitual of using shortcut keys for various...

WPF 4 DataGrid: Delete Multiple Rows

Sep 29 by Suprotim Agarwal

This article demonstrates how to delete multiple rows from the WPF DataGrid.

.NET String Resources

Sep 26 by Jani Giannoudis

The .NET framework offers the ResourceManager as a basis for dealing with externalized strings and their translations. This article extends these capabilities of standard .NET string...

Checking Password Strength

Sep 22 by Richard Carr

Many computer systems require that a password is provided before permitting access to sensitive data. As some passwords are easy to crack using brute force techniques, it is common...