Articles by Mike Gold

There are some problems with the behavior of the current beta version of the MaskedTextBox when you are using currency. This article will show you how to overcome this behavior with an overriding control.

This article describes how to use CodeDom and Reflection to Create a Calculator that can evaluate simple and complex math expressions on the fly.

Notepad.NET is a file text editor that allows you to edit multiple files at the same time. It also has a few nice features not included in notepad, such as print preview and a most recently used file list. This article describes how printing is performed in this utility.

This article will show you how to create a configuration dialog that builds itself from the existing application configuration name-value pairs contained in the appSettings of the app.config file.

This is a Tip of the Day Dialog for C# and .NET that gives users of your application a tip each time they launch your app.

In this article, we are going to see to develop games in C#. Here I am developing space invaders game in C# with spiraling bombs and a ship lives indicator.

This article describes a way to create a colorful chat interface for instant messaging. In this chat interface you can use html and emoticon tags to display colorful text and bitmaps in order to give you a richer chat experience.

In this article I would like to discuss another offshoot of the genetic algorithm called Population Based Incremental Learning (PBIL).

The MadLib.NET game will continue to prompt the user with each grammar only in the brackets. When the programming engine reaches the end of the template, the story is displayed.

This article show how to use .NET's interoperability feature to pull the data directly into the spreadsheet.

Occasionally you run into a structure in the .NET library that you really wish was a class so you can inherit all its existing properties, override the ones you don’t like, and add new properties and methods.

Microsoft provides several attributes for marshaling C to C#. In our example we will take the case where we have hundreds of structures and only a few API calls, so we only need to generate the marshaled code for the structures.

This an article is on launching scheduled tasks. Not quite as exciting as launching a spaceship into outer space, but…hey, even astronauts have to automate some of their day to day activities.

In the financial world you have to deal with messages being spewed at you in large quantities at a rapid rate. For example stock quotes, market data, and orders come flying at you through some sort of wire and you as a programmer have to handle them in a way that doesn’t overwhelm you or the machine.

If you ever browsed around the book store, you'll notice these puzzle books or IQ test books and some of the books contain questions asking you to complete a series of numbers.

Property Grid control is one of the control we deal with all the time when writing UI applications. This article and attached source code shows how to use the Property Grid control in your applications.

Use a C# genetic algorithm with Multiple Expression Programming to evolve series and parallel resistor networks toward a target resistance value.

This is a simple application written for a restaurant using Tablet PC that allows you to list such things as lunch specials and have the colors on the board change randomly to produce an interesting flashing sign effect.

This article and attached source code shows how to use SyncFusion Grid control in virtual mode to display and manipulate data from a data source.