Entries for 'Eric Anderson'
32-bit applications have been around for a long time while 64-bit operating systems are only recently gaining popularity. Therefore, I would expect that the 64-bit OS successors would make it easy to run legacy 32-bit apps. And, they do a...
The message box, in Windows Forms and WPF, is a useful, quick-and-dirty way to send an alert, display an error, and get simple input from the user. The message box is, however, modal.
Recently, I needed to use a message box in WPF but did not want...
Recently, I created a function to execute this simple flowchart:
This function is executing within its own thread and starts an asynchronous action that executes in another thread. This function periodically checks the system state. Before the...
I liked Firefox. It had tabbed browsing before Internet Explorer (IE) and seemed lighter and faster. The plug-ins were also a great feature, especially IE Tab, which ran IE from within Firefox. It was very easy to change the rendering engine and you ...
Last Thursday, October 1st, Ben Zeinz and I attended the afternoon session of an MSDN event entitled "Real World Azure". It introduced Windows Azure ahead of its upcoming release. The morning session was geared towards IT personnel while th...
Ladder diagrams are an industrial programming language typically used on programmable logic controllers (PLC). This graphical language mimics a relay logic electrical schematic. For engineers that are not familiar with relay logic, though, ladder dia...