Technologies
 

File System
 Working With Files In .Net
 An article that discusses in detail and demonstrates, with sample code, how to use the .Net Framework File and FileInfo classes in your own projects to create, copy, move, rename and delete files.
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 Working With Directories In .Net
 An article that discusses in detail and demonstrates, with sample code, how to use the .Net Framework Directory and DirectoryInfo classes in your own projects to create, copy, move, rename and delete directories.
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 Working With Drives In .Net
 An article that discusses in detail and demonstrates, with sample code, how to use the .Net Framework DriveInfo class in your own projects to display information about a machine’s drives to the user.
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 Accessing The File System From .Net
 An introduction to a series of articles on accessing and managing file system drives, directories and files from .Net code. The introduction discusses and demonstrates, with sample code, the common base classes, utility classes and access control and audit security. The series includes detailed articles that discuss and demonstrate, with sample code, how to access and manage file system drives, directories and files.
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 Using The Recycle Bin From CSharp
 An article that demonstrates how to perform file system folder and file copy, delete and move operations from CSharp code with progress reporting and system Recycle Bin support. The article demonstrates how to use existing managed .Net Framework functionality rather than resorting directly to unmanaged Windows API calls to send deleted folders and files to the Recycle Bin. It also demonstrates how to display full progress reporting with an option to cancel when copying or moving file system folders and files. The full demonstration CSharp source code used in the article is available as an optional download.
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Windows Forms
 Sorting .Net Collections
 An article demonstrating the development of a generic comparer class and its use in a custom collection class to provide binary search and sorting capabilities. The article demonstrates a minimalist approach, without a full-blown IBindingList implementation, to developing a collection class with advanced searching and sorting capabilities. The collection class can be used from code and can also be used, by application developers, to data bind to user interface components and/or controls with full support for sorting a business object on any of its properties.
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 DataSource and BindingList
 An article demonstrating techniques for providing data from a middle tier business or server component to which user interface components and controls can data bind. The article demonstrates the development of a DataSource class that supplies a BindingList derived list of the Windows Services installed on the machine. Application developers can use the DataSource class and the BindingList derived class at design time to bind the Windows Service data to a user interface component and/or control.
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 Windows Forms Threading
 An article explaining various techniques for developing multithreaded .Net Framework Windows Forms applications. The article demonstrates the use of the Thread, ThreadPool and BackgroundWorker classes and shows how to make user interface control updates in a thread-safe manner. Asynchronous methods, the IAsyncResult Design Pattern and the Event Based Asynchronous Design Pattern are discussed and demonstrated. You can also download the source code used in the article which includes the AsyncComponent class, a component base class with built in support for asynchronous methods.
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Configuration
 Configuration Section Handlers
 An article examining .Net Framework configuration section handlers. The article discusses the use of configuration section handler classes and demonstrates how to declare your own configuration sections and handler classes. The main configuration section handler classes that ship with the .Net Framework are discussed and the declaration and use of the NameValueSectionHandler is demonstrated. The development of custom configuration section handler classes is discussed and both the declarative and programmatic model of custom configuration section handler class development are demonstrated in detail with full source code listings.
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 User Application Settings
 An article explaining the concept of user application settings for .Net Framework Windows Forms applications. The article demonstrates how to create, serialize and deserialize application settings and how to develop your own custom application settings provider. The functionality of an application settings provider that supports the encryption of user application settings is discussed and you can also download the CSharp or Visual Basic source code for the settings provider.
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 Protected Configuration
 An article looking at the technology used in the .Net Framework to protect sensitive configuration file settings data. The article discusses the provider model design pattern in general and protected configuration providers and their use in detail.
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Class Libraries
 Generating .Net Source Code
 An article that demonstrates how to build a, language-independent, Code Document Object Model (CodeDOM) using the types in the System.CodeDom namespace to generate source code in any, supported, .Net Framework language. The article discusses and demonstrates, with sample code, how to generate types i.e. class, enum, interface, struct, type members e.g. events, fields, properties, methods, etc. and code expressions and statements. Language-specific code providers are discussed and demonstrated and the source code output generated by the CSharp and Visual Basic code providers is shown for each of the CodeDOM generation code samples.
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 Provider Based Services
 An article that demonstrates how to implement the Provider Design Pattern in a Windows Forms system. The provider model is used to develop a line of business system in which the client application is decoupled from the business logic and data services to create a system that is inherently flexible and easy to extend. The article demonstrates how to extend the ProviderBase abstract base class to develop feature specific provider base classes and how to use the base classes in a loosely coupled satellite class library assembly. Component dependencies, provider design and development, provider configuration, loading and initialization are all discussed and demonstrated with source code listings. The full sample source code used in the article is available in CSharp and Visual Basic as an optional download.
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