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Welcome to the articles library. This is where I take on various programming related topics to discuss them in more depth. Comments and suggestions are very welcome. Click on an article to read it.

 
Encoding and Decoding. Hello Unicode, goodbye ASCIIZ strings
In this article I'm going to talk about String and character processing in the .NET environment, and how the classes Encoding and Decoding seem to be ever-present when working with strings. I'll talk about Unicode characters and the essential role of these two classes.
DLL Dump utility -- using Reflection to explore a .NET DLL or EXE
This article discusses the techniques and structures used to access type and structure information in a DLL or EXE file created by .NET. It uses Reflection, a .NET technology, to access information inside the DLL. The source and project files are available for download, and the sample application can be run as well. There are classes in a DLLWrapper dll which should be straightforward to customize for your application, they are minimal and general purpose and meant to be extensible. You could use this, for instance, to get a list of all methods or properties that are in a dll.
Modifying the paging in the GridView control so that spiders and robots can navigate it
This article is intended for people who have used the GridView control and who have discovered a specific limitation of the built-in paging links; bots and spiders cannot find content on any page but the first page because the links are javascript, not url's.
Introduction to Rollovers
This is the first in a series of 3 articles discussing simple rollover techniques for menus in web pages. Using styles and some very simple javascript a wide variety of menu looks can be created.
Summary of .NET format specifier
A discussion of the .NET format specifier and how its used. The relationship between the components and a cheat card of the format specifier details.
Of Files, Streams and Reader/Writers
This article discusses the relationship between files, Streams and the Readers and Writers in the .NET platform. Streams are a central concept in .NET