Just saw this post in a newsgroup about how to show the horizontal lines that Microsoft likes to use in their dialogs. A lot of people replied with ideas of using other controls, like panels, to achieve the desired effect - to me, a much simpler and mor… more »

This is the seventh article in my mini series about object pooling. Be sure to read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6 first. As some of you may have noticed, I introduced a bad bug in the last article about growing and shrinking, spec… more »

This is the sixth article in my mini series about object pooling. Be sure to read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5 first. It took me a while to find the time for the next article, but here it is. Now we're finally going to deal with the topi… more »

Just to pass on another piece of news from PDC, here's a list of information resources about LINQ, which is a fantastic extension to common programming models that we have today. Problem is, it seems to be quite a while away :-) more »

This is the fifth article in my mini series about object pooling. Be sure to read part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 first. This part is going to make some modifications to the code in the GetObject() method to implement various alternative behaviours… more »