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…
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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…
C# Short Circuit Demo
Today, we are going to look at doing a short circuit demo in C#. I really want to provide a solid example to help people…
Short Circuits
Recently, I have been digging in my old source code. I ran across an if statement that was not optimized. In this instance, it was…
Brother HL-3170CDW series Printer Won’t Duplex
Normally, I don’t get this specific on my posts but I hate printers. If mankind gets destroyed by the machines, you can trust it will…
Wandering Through the Library: Art of Readable Code
There are plenty of books that talk about coding style. Art of Readable Code is one of them. There is quite a bit of debate…
Diary of a Code Monkey: A Coding Diary
There is a tradition that dates back to the Calvinist of New England. You might know them as Pilgrims even if that description is not…