I was recently called onto a project to add features to existing applications. To me, this is one of the most challenging aspects of being a developer because the existing application strips away much ...

In a Bring Your Own Device (BOYD) world, .NET Framework support for Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) provides a base for writing code that will run on any platform -- provided you understand the ...

Microsoft has opened up its Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) -- previously only available to .NET Framework developers -- to be used on any platform, including non-Microsoft ones. PCLs allow ...

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The first library works fine in both winForms and console apps, but when I try to reference the Toolbox in the Xceed library, sll methods are unavailable. Below is some short code samples of the ...

Opening up to developers, Microsoft is releasing its .Net Framework libraries under the Microsoft Reference License, which allows viewing of source code but not modification or redistribution, the ...