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This is a short intorduction to thread synchronization in .NET. It covers some basic techniques that you may be already familiar with, but also explains how to deal with scenarios when you need to cross process boundaries. We also visit some of the issues that may arise with synchronization.

Mobile applications are rarely totally self-contained - they often need to use data from various online sources. This article describes how to pull XML content from a RSS feed, and show it in a ListBox container. This is nothing new, so we’ll try to spice it up a bit by adding a simple loading screen that is shown to the user while our XML data is being downloaded and parsed.

I was in a situation where I needed to find the public key token of a file I had. A simple enough task you might say, but is it? Find out how to programatically extract the token without using the .NET framework SDK.

In today's article, I'll post a very interesting function. It calculates the number of minutes between two points in time. Did I hear you say "Lame, I can use DATEDIFF function for that!!!"? Well, what my little function does, other than calculating minutes between two points in time, is that it works for a given "time window" and DATEDIFF in it's default form is not enough for that.

Due to a growing need to organize and group different IM accounts for many of my bussiness contacts all over the world, I considered using universal IM clients starting with Trillian and later moving on to Pidgin. I'm sharing here some of my experience with these tools and their Skype integration.

Every real-world project needs to be properly documented, and UML (Unified Modeling Language) provides nice means for generating documentation. Find out how to use Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and related tools to easily generate project documentation.

Data import is one of those tasks that are performed on a daily basis. This post describes three different approaches for importing data into the SQL Server database.

LLBLGen ANGTE (short for “ASP.Net GUI Templates Extended”) is a template set for GUI generation that can be used in your LLBLGen projects. Find out how to customize these templates to suit your needs.