Mike Gold's contributions

This article is an update to an article written by George Steeves on how to create an MP3 player using C# and .NET using the moon valley mp3p.ocx control.

This article features an application that allows you to set up a periodic reminder in your windows task bar. The application will show a balloon message periodically and optionally will produce a reminder beep.

This article describes the first steps in taking an existing umanaged MFC Application and integrating the .NET Framework into it. It will also demonstrate to you how to bring up a Windows Form inside your MFC App.

This article will get you started in using the Visio ActiveX control that allows you to use Visio inside of a .NET Windows Form. The article will step you through a simple example of drawing shapes inside a Visio Drawing and connecting the shapes together.

This article describes how you can use genetic algorithms in .NET to determine derivatives of mathematical functions. The program uses an algorithm called Multiple Expression Programming (MEP) inside the genomes to exercise a function tree.

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.