Articles by Mike Gold

This article demonstrates a pocket pc packing list application to help you track moving inventory. The application is written in C# for the .NET Compact Framework (1.1) and shows you how to overcome some limitations in the framework such as scrolling a form and searching nodes in XML.

This article answers how do I open a word document from within a .NET application. How do I open a word document from .NET.

This article shows you how you can use alter XSL in memory to transform XML data into HTML with different results.

This article describes an application for reading stock quotes into an excel spread sheet and alerting the user when the stock quotes have exceeded or dropped below a certain price threshold. The project uses the SerialPort class to send commands to the Parallax Basic Stamp Microcontroller.

This article shows you how to create a mortgage calculator in .NET for computing a home loan. It also illustrates how to override a TextBox in order to create your own masked text box that includes thousand separators.

Build an ASP.NET image slideshow web control that reads images from a directory, tracks the current image with session state, and supports Previous and Next navigation.

This article shows you how to use MSBuild to build your project and how to create a custom task that will allow you to modify sections of your XML configuration files.

Learn how to port a C# Windows Forms GDI+ game to Pocket PC using the .NET Compact Framework, including double buffering, closing forms, debugging, and deployment.

This article features a program in which the user can enter a polynomial equation and it will use GAs to determine the complex roots.

Remember the puzzles where you are given a jumble of letters and you have to unscramble a word? This article shows you how to use a genetic algorithm and NetSpell, an open source spell checker, to solve these anagram puzzles.

This article demonstrates an Exercise Tracking Program in C# that you can use to track your daily exercises. It uses the DataGridView and an Access Database to display exercise data. The program also let's you print out your daily routine.

This article will give you an easy way to create 3D animation using the True Vision Game Engine. True Vision wraps the DirectX framework for a more straightforward way of 3D game development in .NET.

This C# application will allow you to load existing Sudoku games, manually create your own games, save, print, and check Sudoku puzzles, and more. The article also describes how to use the XmlDocument class to persist Sudoku templates and games in progress.

Blogs can be a fun way to express your thoughts to others on the web. This article will show you how to create your own blog application so you can get started in the world of blogging. (This is an update from VS2003 to VS2005).

Ever wonder how to play videos in .NET? This article will show you how to use the managed DirectX 9 Video class to play avi video files.

Visual Studio contains several built-in intellisense code snippets. Snippets are like templates and can be described completely in XML. If you understand the snippet xml schema, you can easily begin to create your own snippets.

This article describes the Compact Genetic Algorithm (cGA) and how it can be used to calculate the square root of a floating point number.

Sudoku is a new type of puzzle from Japan that will keep you entertained for a time and may even get you hooked. This article demonstrates how to generate a fully populated Sudoku grid using genetic algorithms.

This article is a continuation of the discussion about a notepad.net editor which improves upon the current functionality in notepad. In this article we talk about regular expression matching inside the find dialog.