Business data tends to organize itself into rows and columns (witness the success of Lotus123, Excel and other spreadsheet software). For the .NET UI developer, the Windows DataGridView is indispensible in that it provides a quick way to organize business data into rows and columns. Sorting, Paging etc. are usually either built in or fairly straightforward to implement.   While the DataGridView control is flexible enough to display any IList as its datasource, it starts running int... [More]

Working with threads in .NET is fairly straightforward. You have two options: Manually creating new threads (usually for longer running tasks) and Using .NET’s built-in thread  pool (typically for shorter running tasks) Option 1 - Manually create your own thread (Works for both short-running and long running tasks) Say you have a method (a long running task) that you want to assign to a new thread. All you need to do is pass in the name of the long running method to ThreadStart.... [More]

What is Microsoft Silverlight?  Silverlight is: a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for the Web, desktop, and mobile devices.    a free plug-in, compatible across multiple browsers and powered by the .NET framework.  compatible across devices and operating systems to bring a new level of interactivity that is not typically associated within a web environment.  With support for advanced data integration, multithr... [More]

The Singleton pattern is one of the most widely used in object oriented programming. The basic idea is to prevent multiple instances of a class. One might ask – how does this differ from a static class? Difference between a Static class and a Singleton Static classes are used whenever there is no reason to associate an identity with an object. For example – if one were modeling a Financial Application, a class representing Money (containing numeric conversion methods etc.) could be designed ... [More]