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Posts under ‘.NET Programming’
Animator Beta 2
The animator beta 2 build is out! Bug fixes, features, and so much more! If you’re a Flash developer, this might be a handy tool to build XML sprite sheet animations.
Still alive…
This is the animator application I mentioned a few posts back. It doesn’t do too much right now, but it should help anyone who is trying to make $100 dollars in a Flash contest.
Presentation Layer
I’m redesigning the Solution Explorer so that it works the way the user would expect, and this is a good example of how the Model-View-Controller setup makes life more simple over just hooking into Form events and using Form objects directly.
Context Menus in Tree Views
It is very easy to make a poor presentation layer with Visual Studio — in fact, if you ask “What’s a presentation layer,” then you’re probably doing it wrong. It is all too tempting to draw a new button on a form double click the button and start coding away. Visual Studio makes coding a [...]
The Global Assembly Cache
Are you a .NET software developer? Do you have assembly versioning problems? Do you have multiple copies of the same DLL in many component folders? Well if, so my friend, you’ve got trouble. Folks, right here in Source Code City! Trouble with a capital “T” and that rhymes with “D” and that stands for “dependency!”
That’s [...]
How to catch an exception
I was reading up on exception handling tonight — looking for a way to prevent crashes in a Windows Service which sports a plugin architecture (whether or not the crashes should be prevented if there is a way) — when I found this code:
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Resource resource = GetResource();
try
{
DoWork();
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