Challenges faced while using ADO.NET while interacting with Database

Frankly, I've found the ADO.NET's disconnected database model to be quite a verbose and lengthy process to work with. First, you need to create a Connection object to connect to the database and then corresponding DataAdapter and DataSet objects to deal with each table in that database. For example, assuming just 4 tables in an SQLite table, there will be 1 SQLiteConnection, 4 SQLiteDataAdapter objects and 4 DataSet objects, so total 9 objects just to work with the database! This is perhaps too much to grasp for someone coming from Python or PHP where its much simpler to create a connection and/or cursor object which can then be used to query any given table using a SQL statement.

7 Reasons why I like the C# programming language

1. Multithreading support – While there are many other excellent features of the language, multithreading support is what tops my list. The reason is that the threading mechanism is so much intuitive and easier to implement than many other languages like C++ or even java.

Some VB6 Tricks

Though Visual Basic 6 has started getting lost in antiquity since the advent of .NET, we do know there are still zillions of VB6 programs in existence, with medium to high complexity. They are not migrated to C# or VB.NET and are maintained in their current state.

How to convert an image to bytes in .NET?

One of the most standard queries I come across in many of the coding forums these days is, how do we convert an image (Image/Bitmap class) in .NET to a byte[] array? The answer to this is very straight forward - a few lines of code in VB.NET or C#:

How to code efficiently in a .NET language?

Here are some techniques you may apply in your quest to become a better .NET coder:

[1] Leverage the power of industry-standard tools. There exist many proven tools to help you with various programming needs.

How to perform Cross-thread communication in .NET programs

Multithreading is a quite useful technique in programming, especially in complex applications that seem to do a lot of things at the same time. The System.Threading class in .NET provides members that allow us to seamlessly create, stop and abort threads at will. But this article is not about managing threads, there are already several texts available for that. This is about managing a very typical scenario that is faced by a developer working on a multi threaded application.

How to create an FTP client in VB.NET

The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is one of the oldest and most popular ways of transferring files from one computer to another over a TCP network such as the internet. It is a Client/Server based protocol based on cear-text authentication. To get a detailed idea of what FTP is and how it is used, refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol