Articles by Mahesh Chand

WinFS (Windows File System) is the storage platform for Longhorn. This article, a preliminary chapter from the updated Windows User Experience guidelines, presents an overview of WinFS and how it makes possible a better experience for both you and your users.

With the invent of .NET and C#, Microsoft had already started a new era of programming which swept away the programmers world wide. And now by introducing Windows Vista programming model, Microsoft has proved its seriousness and dedication to the programmers and the programming world. In this article, I will discuss some of the key pillars of Windows Vista programming model.

This article explains how to install Avalon on your machine.

This article explains what the WinFS SDK is in Windows Longhorn programming model.

Windows Presentation Foundation is the library for building presentation (user-interfaces) applications in Windows Vista programming model. This article answers most frequently asked questions related to WPF.

Learn how to use C# out and ref parameters to modify passed variables and return multiple values from methods.

In .NET framework, the Registry and the RegistryKey classes provide control to the Windows Registry.

This article discusses the basics of DiffGrams and how DiffGram format is utilized by a DataSet to in this context.

This article aims for those who are not yet worked in ContextMenu in .NET environment and would like to understand a little easy way how ContextMenu and its associated event handler works. How can a context menu for a notify icon be programmatically generated when the user right clicks on the notify icon? As a prerequisite, you should know a little bit idea of object oriented programming.

This article primarily devoted to the basics of SQL query, that is SELECT Statement: This SELECT statement is used to fetch data from the table.

XAML element represents the XAML TextBox control. This article discusses how to create a TextBox and set its various properties such as background and foreground colors, setting size and positions, fonts, wrapping, scrolling, and input validations.

The Random class defined in the .NET Framework class library provides functionality to generate random numbers. This article shows you how you can use this class to generate random numbers and strings and even combination of both.

The convert class is used to covert from one data type to another. Most of the common conversions can be done by using this class.

This article explains how to pass proxy server network credentials when downloading files using HTTP.

The StatusStrip control available in Visual Studio 2005 is a powerful StatusBar control with the features provided by StatusBar in previous versions. Besides the StatusBar features, StatusStrip also provides ProgressBar, DropDownButton, SplitButton, and Label features.

The ActiveDocumentHost control provides the ability to host OLE Documents within your application. This enables you to create applications that allow in-place editing of documents such as Microsoft Word and Excel.

The MaskedTextBox control is a TextBox with mask feature, which allows you to set the format of the data of TextBox such as zip code, date, time, social security, and phone number.

If you have ever written Outlook type user interfaces using Windows Forms, you must be familiar with Splitter control. The Splitter control used to provide functionality to split two controls and dock them. Now Windows Forms 2.0, that ships with Visual Studio 2005 replaces Splitter control with a new control called SplitContainer.

Windows Forms 1.0 lacked a Web Browser control. The work around was to use IE ActiveX control using COM Interop. Now Windows Forms 2.0 provides a Web Browser control, which is a managed wrapper of IE ActiveX control. This article talks about the new Web Browser control.

ASP.NET Configuration Wizard is a new feature available in Visual Studio 2005, which takes care ASP.NET Web Application configuration and deployment problems and allows developers to set Web application settings using a visual interface.

If you have been writing Web applications using Visual Studio, at some point you would end up editing HTML file by hand. Now HTML Editor available in Visual Studio 2005 now supports Intellisense, which makes developers life much easier when editing HTML file by hand.