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» Creating a ComboBox with Individual ToolTips for each Item

by Ged Mead | Published 02/24/2010 | Framework 3.5 , .NET Intermediate , Interop , Windows Presentation Foundation | Rating:

In this article, Ged Mead demonstrates an easy way to use WPF and Windows Forms Interop to create and use a ComboBox that displays ToolTips for individual ComboBox items.

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» OOP Basics - Introduction to Inheritance

by Ged Mead | Published 05/15/2010 | Windows Development | Rating:

This article is the next in the series on the subject of OOP Basics. It takes a first look at the important topic of Inheritance. [read article...]

» OOP Basics - Property Validation and Exceptions

by Ged Mead | Published 11/07/2009 | .NET Newbie , Visual Studio 2008 , Windows Development | Rating:

In this article, Ged Mead explains how to include validation in properties of a Class, how to throw and exception and how to use a Try-Catch block to handle the exception. [read article...]

» How to Ask the User for Input

by Larry Blake | Published 10/27/2009 | Framework 2.0 , Framework 3.0 , Framework 3.5 , .NET Newbie , Visual Studio 2005 , Visual Studio 2008 , Windows Development | Rating:

Visual Basic provides three easy ways to ask for input: MessageBox, InputBox and custom forms. I'll talk a little about all three. [read article...]

» ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework

by Larry Blake | Published 08/14/2009 | Framework 3.5 , Data Programming , ADO.NET , SQL Server , XML , Book Reviews , Visual Studio 2008 | Rating:

Murach's ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework by Anne Boehm, comes in both Visual Basic and C# 2008 versions. Larry Blake reviews it.

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» Object Oriented Programming Basics - Methods

by Ged Mead | Published 08/11/2009 | .NET Newbie | Rating:

In the previous articles in this series, we covered basic Constructors, Fields and Properties.

In this article, we will look at the ToString method, introduce the concept of Inheritance, use the Object Browser and learn about Overrides and Overridable.

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