August 2006 - Posts

Optimizing your Startup

Published Wed, Aug 30 2006 4:10 | Paul June

Many .Net programmers, including me, have complained on the slow startup of .Net applications. I know that this only occurs during the first execution of your application. Why does this thing happen? It’s because of the JIT compiler. The JIT compiler...

Creating an ActiveX Control in Visual Studio 2005

Published Wed, Aug 16 2006 6:26 | Paul June

There have been misconceptions on technologies upon the arrival of .Net. Many programmers believe that the arrival of .Net means the scrapping of all previous technologies. Or in other word the COM technology. COM or ActiveX technology has been around...

Creating Control Arrays

Published Wed, Aug 2 2006 19:27 | Paul June

Control arrays are a very useful functionality in your application. They tend to simplify things that you are doing to a certain number of controls. For example, you want to disable a numerous number of textboxes, you wouldn’t have to code each textbox...

Multiple Projects in a Single Solution in VS2005

Published Wed, Aug 2 2006 18:02 | Paul June

Creating Multiple Projects in a Single Solution is a pretty quite simple thing to do in Visual Studio 2003. It’s a matter of right clicking your solution in the solution explorer then select “Add New Project”. Well this simplicity has completely vanished...