Cornelius Concepts custom software development for small business

A quick tutorial, with sample code, on SetProgressState and SetProgressValue.

Bling is a C#-based library for easily programming images, animations, interactions, and visualizations on Microsoft's WPF/.NET.

News, product information, and learning tools for Microsoft development technologies.

Trainging resources for Visual Studio, SQL Server and Windows Server.

I've recently acquired the latest Pascal language compiler from RemObjects, Oxygene. Embarcadero, now the owners of Delphi, decided not to continue development of Delphi for .NET, but instead license this compiler plug-in for Visual Studio from RemObjects. So if you get RAD Studio 2009 from Embarcedero, which includes Delphi 2009 for Win32, you also get a special single-language version of Microsoft Visual Studio with the Pascal compiler from RemObjects. If you buy this from Embarcadero, it's called Delphi Prism. If you buy it from RemObjects, it's called Oxygene.

The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 builds on the success of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1 to provide the best runtime environment for Web and Microsoft Windows client applications.

Creating a beautiful user interface for your Windows application is a complex process In the past it required skills in many disciplines: Windows Forms, Visual Basic, C++,GDI, GDI+, DirectX and more.

"You're programmers. You're almost all college graduates and none of you know what the f**k "Alphabetical" means. You should all be ashamed. If any of you are using your language's default sort algorithm, which is almost guaranteed to be ASCIIbetical (for good reason) to get alphabetical sorting you proceed to the nearest mirror and slap yourself repeatedly before returning to your desks and fixing your unit tests that didn't catch this problem."

"One of the trickier aspects of development is working with sensitive data such as social security numbers, employee identification numbers, and so forth. The .NET Framework includes cryptography functionality, but it is often overkill for smaller applications.

Krzysztof Cwalina (co-author of Framework Design Guidelines) recently did a talk for the Microsoft Research Group on great framework design. It took place at the Redmond’s Microsoft Research Center. They recorded and posted it on the Research Channel.