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A Seventies kind of thing

Drugs – Sugar Bowl Park, where rich family members came out to play Frisbee and the rest us came out to pop a little speed. Don’t let those Just Say No ads fool you folks; the only time we acknowledged that this country had a drug problem is when all those rich kids started getting […]

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Creating C# Applications: Chapter 4

One of the most innovative features of C# is the concept of managed and unmanaged code. It is this that truly differentiates this language from its more commonly used cousins, C++ and Java. What is unmanaged code? Well, put simply, unmanaged code is any C# code that uses pointers. Conversely, managed code could be considered […]

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Creating C# Applications: Chapter 3

When I work with more than one programming language at a time, such as Java and Perl or VB and C#, the biggest problem I have keeping the languages untangled is remembering to use a semi-colon (;) or not when ending the statement. No matter how hard I try to keep my language syntax separate, […]

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Creating C# Applications: Chapter 1

Introduction There’s been considerable material on programming C# within the Visual Studio .NET environment, but not as much on C# as the first programming language based on the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). This online C# book provides an introduction to C#, the programming language. In addition, the book also takes a look at the CLI […]

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X-Objects Introduction

Copy found on Wayback Machine. Since Dynamic HTML was first introduced in 1997, I’ve always provided code that allows DHTML to be used with the two most popular browsers: Netscape’s Navigator and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To make cross-browser DHTML easier to work with, I created a set of cross-browser objects, which I’ve used for all […]