WinForm User Control Is Missing
I am wrapping up a WinForm project that required me to create some custom user controls. While Visual Studio makes that stupid easy, there are…
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Simple Custom Logging Setup in C#
It is surprising frequent that I have customers who do not like using third party libraries. They want to own all the code. As a…
The anti-forgery token could not be decrypted: An Error in MVC.NET
Some errors are cryptic and it takes hours to fix, others tell you explicitly what is wrong but you have no idea what to do.…
Art of Unit Testing Review
Back in 2010, I met my first nemesis for the 2010’s it was the Art of Unit Testing from Manning. This is a combination of…
How to Do Something on All Controls in WinForms
One of the questions, I got in my mailbag is a question on how to implement some blurb of code on multiple controls. For instance,…
Getting Back the Control Color. WinForms and Color
I have gotten a couple of questions about how to do thing x with colors in WinForms. One of the weird things that always seem…
Passing Data Between Forms in WinForms
I got a funny little email, it was a plea to answer a question that had gotten them stuck. They wanted to pass information between…
Let’s get CRUD-y with ADO.NET and SQLite
Because Entity Framework screwed me with ADO.NET, we need to get ADO and SQLite together in holy .NET-ism? Is that a thing? Anyway, just to…
Why use ADO.NET Instead of Entity Framework for SQLite
When I started playing with my Garden App back in 2018, I figured out how to get SQLite to work with Entity Framework. It was…
Visual Basic.NET Short Circuit Demo
Wrapping up our week of short circuit posts, we have the Visual Basic.NET short circuit demo. If you are fluent in C# this will look…