Mike Gold's contributions

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.

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.