by Rick Miller | 23 Jul 2017 | C#.NET, Programming Languages
Classes and structures can contain, among other types of members, fields and properties. In this post I’ll focus on field and property members and explain the difference between instance fields/properties and static fields/properties. Before reading further here’s a...
by Rick Miller | 9 Jul 2017 | C#.NET, Programming Languages
Complex applications need more than simple Console.WriteLine() statements sprinkled about the code to record application state for debugging and diagnostics purposes. That’s a job for logging packages. In this post, I’ll explain how to integrate logging into a complex...
by Rick Miller | 8 Jul 2017 | C#.NET, Programming Languages
To create anything other than trivial programs you’ll need to structure and organize your Visual Studio solution in a way that enables separation of concerns. In this post I’ll show you how to create a complex Visual Studio solution consisting of multiple sub-projects...
by Rick Miller | 29 Jun 2017 | C#.NET, Programming Languages
You don’t need Visual Studio for simple C# projects. Everything you need is included when you install the .NET Framework, except a decent text editor. (I highly recommend Notepad++) To get started, you’ll need to install the .NET Framework, if you haven’t already done...
by Rick Miller | 25 Jun 2017 | C#.NET, Programming Languages
In an earlier blog post I explained how to populate a Windows forms ComboBox with settings stored in an App.config file. It’s easy to read settings from an App.config file and it’s just as easy to save application settings to configuration files as well. The Video...