Articles by Mike Gold

The Interoperability services make it very easy to work with COM Capable Applications such as Word and Excel.

Create a ComboBox-like toolbar button in .NET by using a DropDownButton with a ContextMenu and updating the button text when a menu item is selected.

If you misplaced your ruler, here's an application that will create one for you on your printer!

This simple application uses an access database to log bugs from a web page. The application also allows you to view a report of all the bugs that have been entered.

This Directory Picker in this article is also a bit different because it uses the Large Icon view of the ListView to traverse through directories.

FTP client developed using Windows Forms. The source code uses a rigid Model-View-Controller design pattern.

Way back, I'd say about 1981 (ok maybe not so far back!), there was a game for the Apple II called Brick Out.

This article shows way to do form capture in GDI is to get the device context to the screen and bit blast it to a Bitmap in memory.

This project contains a UserControl that allows you to place an Image inside and scroll around the Image.

I may seem a little Bullish on .NET, but I was able to create this application fairly quickly in C#.

Today I realized that I miss those Visual Basic/Visual C++ type operators. You know the ones: Left, Mid, Right.

This article describes how to create a web quiz from the information in a database.

This is the game of Mastermind written in C#. The game is played by clicking on a set of 4 colors and then hitting the score button. Colors can repeat themselves in this game, so be wary!

This article covers a fairly practical aspect of using a computer - dealing with forms.

This is a simple game written in C# in which the user moves a packman like player around the form and gobbles up red dots. The object is to get all the dots in as quick a time as you can.

Using the power of .NET and the power of COM InterOperability through WithClass 2000, you can view the System.Drawing library in a rough UML diagram.

A simple step by step tutorial shows you how to connect to a text file using ADO.NET and C#..

Drag and Drop in C# has been a question on the UseNet and many websites on C# so I have decided to tackle the problem here. This is an update of the directory tree component download on this web site.

Transforms are matrices that allow you to rotate and translate your graphics shapes. In this example we are going to rotate a very powerful element in C# called the GraphicsPath.

I've had a couple inquiries on how to do drag and drop in .NET again, so I've put together a simple app for dragging text from a TreeView to a TreeView and a TreeView to a ListBox.

Deploying projects in Visual Studio.NET is fairly straightforward. Most of the process is automated for you through some convenient wizards so it doesn't require much effort. Keep in mind, though that you probably need the Windows Component Update Beta 1 on the machine you are deploying to. I suspect you also need the Microsoft .NET Framework, as well (for now).

The Scheduling program consists of three main classes. The Form, the DatabaseController used to read and write scheduled events into the database and RowData which corresponds to data extracted from a row in the database.