.NET itself uses attributes at many places. For example to declare your component as transactional you can use special attributes. The attributes can be used for variety of other purpose like specifying author information, copy ...

Introduction Reflection is ability to find information about types contained in an assembly at run time. Prior to .NET languages like C++ provided such ability in a limited sense. .NET provides a whole new set of APIs to introspect assemblies...

In simple words serialization is a process of storing the object instance to a disk file. Serialization stores state of the object i.e. member variable values to disk. Deserialization is reverse of serialization i.e. ...

Introduction Up till recently COM ruled the world of component development. Many companies have invested a great amount of money and time in COM components. With introduction of .NET people are concerned about the future of COM. Microsoft...

Introduction In past developing multithreaded applications in VB was tedious task. Many times spawning new threads actually spawn errors :-) The picture has changed in VB.NET. VB.NET now has simplicity of Java while dealing with threads....

You must have heard the word assembly many times in .NET documentation. In this article I will share some thing about .NET assemblies...