Covers the creation of child forms at runtime inside a MDI form and other programming aspects, like building menus.
Using WebClient to download a file
How to use the WebClient class to download a file from the Web and save it to a local path on your computer.
Using OpenFileDialog to open files
Use the classic Windows dialog box to choose a file for opening, also tells you how to open multiple files.
Asynchronous Ping using C#
In this C# tutorial we’re going to learn how to ping a host over a network or the Internet using C#. Furthermore the ping is going to be executed asynchronously so that our application doesn’t have to wait for the ping.
Zipping files using GZipStream
In this tutorial we’re going to use the new namespace of .NET 2.0, System.IO.Compression, which will give us access to the GZipStream class which will then allow us to compress and decompress ZIP files.
Making a Context Menu
Shows you how to make a context menu (right click / shortcut menu) in C# using Visual C# .NET and how to attach it to a control. You can hardly find an application that doesn’t use any context menu. Adding a context menu to your application isn’t hard at all, thanks to Visual C# .NET. […]
Learning Clipboard Skills: Clipboard Copy and Paste with C#
Learn how to copy and paste text and images from and to the Windows clipboard using the Clipboard class in C# and .NET 2.0. You will also see how to clear the content of the clipboard.
Mouse coordinates
Getting the coordinates of the mouse with OnMouseMove and making something interesting with them.
An introduction in retrieving WMI in C#
This is a short introduction into retrieving WMI information using hard drive serial and model numbers as an example.
Using the DateTime object
This tutorial shows you how to use the .NET object DateTime: how to get the current date and time, how to filter the output, check for leap years, find the number of days in a given month, add and subtract time to the current date and time.