Thursday, September 05, 2002

A Second Look at Windows Forms Multithreading. "[O]ne thing doesn't make users happy—not having full control of any processing that their applications are performing. Even though the UI is responsive while pi is being calculated, the user would still like the option to cancel the calculation if they've decided they need 1,000,001 digits and they mistakenly asked for only 1,000,000." In this article, I add canceling to my asynchronous pi calculating WinForms app. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 10:29:32 PM

Reflector, the most indispensible tool for .NET programming seems to have a new version. For those few that don't already know, Reflector is a super class browser, a superset of ildasm and the IDE's Object Browser. A must have! 4:13:34 PM

MSDN has two exciting new articles on an area that is of confusion to many (myself included): when do you use .NET Remoting and when do use ASP.NET Web Services. Its interesting how they are listed with order reversed in other case. The first is ASP.NET Web Services or .NET Remoting: How to Choose and the other is Performance Comparison: .NET Remoting vs. ASP.NET Web Services. 3:47:00 PM

In this article, the author shows you how to use reflection to work with user controls that are Just-In-Time (JIT) compiled. 9:53:59 AM

XML Web Services enable the exchange of complex data types, serialized as XML. Complex data types, such as ADO.NET DataSets and custom classes can be serialized as XML and either sent to the XML Web Service as an input argument, or returned from the XML Web Service as the result. In this article, the author builds an XML Web Service and a consumer Web application. 9:48:30 AM

The series continues. In this part we will look at how to add client-side code to a ButtonColumn's client-side onclick event. 9:46:15 AM

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