Articles by Mahesh Chand

With many new cool features, components, controls, and tools, Visual Studio 2005 definitively is a winner. In this article, I discuss the new exception handling dialog in Visual Studio 2005.

In my previous articles, I discussed various new features introduced in Visual Studio 2005. This article is another addition to the same series. In this article, I discuss some new features of Visual Studio 2005 editor.

Learn how to use Visual Studio 2005 refactoring tools to rename members, extract code and interfaces, and change class member signatures while improving existing projects.

In this article of Learning Visual Studio 2005 IDE series, we will take a quick look at Toolbox and see what are the new controls added to it.

In this article of Learning Visual Studio 2005 IDE series, I will explore some of the designer features and the breakdown of the classes of a Windows Forms project.

In this article of Learning Visual Studio 2005 IDE series, I will explore some of the designer features and the breakdown of the classes of a Windows Forms project.

In this article, I will write an application that allows us to set the Ink Overlay properties such as height, width, and color of the ink dynamically based on the values selected by the user.

This step by step tutorial shows you how to create your first Tablet PC application using Visual Studio .NET and C# with the help of Microsoft Tablet PC API.

In my previous articles, I discussed how to use to use Ink and set its properties to draw on a Windows Form and Windows controls. In this article, I will discuss some more features of Tablet PC ink including selecting and deleting ink, Ink collection, and Ink object.

This article answers some of the frequently asked questions related to Tablet PC and Tablet PC application development.

Any Windows Forms control including a Form itself can be used as a surface to draw using the Tablet PC pen and ink. In this article, I will discuss how to use the Ink functionality to write on various Windows Forms controls.

XmlTextReader class is a class you might want to look into if you want to read XML files. Just pass your XML file as an argument when you create XmlTextReader object and call read() method to read the document.

Master pages is a new concept in ASP.NET 2.0, which allows site developers to build master templates for their site's look and feel and put all common code which is shared by all the pages. In this article, I will show you how to take advantage of master pages in your applications when building a Web site using ASP.NET 2.0.

Learn about Visual Studio 2005 features for building websites with new controls, including creating pages without writing code.

Working with ADO.NET Database Components in VS.NET and WinForms is so fun. You write few lines of code and these controls take care of rest for you. In this article, I'm going to show you how to use these database Components in your .NET WinForms applications using VB.NET.

Working with data-bound controls in VS.NET IDE is a fun. You just set couple of properties and you're all set to view, add, and update data using these data-bound controls. Some of these common controls are DataGrid, DataCombo, and ListBox.