In this article, we will discuss 14 DataGridView frequently asked questions and their solutions. These questions have been collected from a variety of sources including some newsgroups, MSDN site and a few, answered by me at the MSDN forums.

Here is our first impressions of Google's beta Browser called Chrome that was just released today.

There are critical memory & cpu issues, Google Chrome consumes over 600MB to just load the PHP manual (16.5 MB) on Windows XP.

Right now I know as much about Google's new Chrome browser as everyone else - which is to say, I've read the comic book and the relevant blog postings. But let's assume for the moment that Google delivers everything they promise: what effect will this have on the wider market?

PowerPoint exposes a full-featured object model for automating, so there's virtually nothing that you can't do with PowerPoint via Ruby code.

Zooming images in a PictureBox control is not something that comes out of the box. However with a little bit of code, basic emulation of zoom in and zoom out functionality can be achieved quiet easily. In this article, we will explore how to emulate zoom-in and zoom-out, of an image kept in the PictureBox control.

The recent Silverlight 2 Beta 2 release it has become easier to access and manipulate database data. Since Silverlight applications cannot directly access local resources data access is provided through web services such as Windows Communications Foundation(WCF) or ASMX. There are many examples demonstrating how to read data and populate data objects but few that provide any facility to write changes back to the data source.

Clarity Battleship is a multi-player game in which players code the "artificial intelligence" needed to command their fleet to victory on the high seas. The game is built using WPF and WCF.

Dynamic-link libraries (DLL) are the integrated part of the Windows platform from its very beginning. DLL allows encapsulation of a piece of functionality in a standalone module with the explicit list of C functions that are available for external users. In 1980’s, when Windows DLL’s were introduced to the world, the only viable option to speak to broad development audience was C language. So, naturally, Windows DLL’s expose their functionality as a C functions and data. Internally, DLL may be implemented in any language, but in order to be used from other languages and environments DLL interface should fall back to the lowest common denominator – the C language.

That’s a fact: It’s very annoying to click on a link and find an Error 404. So what about a little bit of fun? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a Blue Screen of Death-like 404 page.

How to run Linux/Unix commands in Windows?

an articale disscuss reasons makes linux can not win against windows in the computer world

PHP 5.3.0 is only in its first alpha release. But, if you run PHP in Microsoft Windows, you should talk a look at…

Microsoft site (msn.no) serves trojan to thousands of users due to known Flash Player bug.

XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in the framework, such as WPF, WCF, Windows CardSpace, and WF.

This is a short article describing how you can drag and drop files from your Desktop/Windows Explorer to your Windows Form application. In this article, we will drag text files from the desktop and drop it on our WinForm application, to display the contents of the text files.

This article explains how to run an ANT script in a .bat or a .cmd file under Windows.

How to remotely log off remote desktop (terminal service) users when you get that annoying: "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.”

The Sysinternals team has released virtual desktops for Vista in the form of: Desktops v1.0, a super simple app to give you 4 virtual desktops in Windows Vista.

Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys.

Today, the two hardware and software giants announced a joint project to create tools for parallel programming on Intel chips. The tools will be implemented in C and C++ for Visual Studio.

If you’re not already familiar with BitNami, the aim of the project is to help spread the adoption of open source software by making it easier than ever to install and configure. Whether you’re an experienced techie or a total newbie, you’ll be able to get open source applications installed in just minutes with our easy to use installers. Still not convinced? Read on for 5 reasons BitNami will make your life easier.

Java 6u10 really delivers for Windows users in terms of Swing fidelity. Linux users are not far behind with the improvements in OpenJDK 7.

The other day I was watching David Pogue’s presentation When it comes to tech, simplicity sells on Ted Talks about good and bad UI design, which overall was very good. However good UI (User Interface) design is not always as obvious as he makes it out to be, and sometimes it’s even very counter-intuitive.

Welcome to our first post on a new blog from Microsoft—the Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short. E7 is hosted by the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky. Jon and Steven, along with members of the engineering team will post, comment, and participate in this blog.