Note: This article is relevant only to Windows form applications. In .NET each control is composed of a canvas on which rendering is performed. To use the canvas of a control one needs to add an event handler to the Paint event. This article provides a couple of examples how to use the Paint event. … Continue reading Drawing on control canvas

Cascade assignment is the concept of having the same value assigned to different variables in one line. For example: copy1 = copy2 = copy3 = some_value; This article examines whether cascade assignment differentiate from having different assignment statements for each assignment operator. For the test scenarios consider the constructor of square shape where all sides … Continue reading Cascade Assignment

When developing Windows Applications it is quite common to end up having to access a special folder. Some examples of special folders are user Desktop, user Documents (My Documents in case of Windows XP), temporary folder, etc. When using the file system I/O functions it is important to always access the correct folder thus one … Continue reading Accessing the correct Windows special folder

When writing functions in C♯ sometimes one ends up putting parameters that might not be required all the time or when omitted would like to place a default value to these parameters. The way this is tackled is by using method overloads with different parameters. However, from the release of .NET 4.0 it is possible … Continue reading Optional Parameters