Monthly Archives: May 2015

The .NET BackgroundWorker class and You

Introduction My personal favorite class of the .NET Framework is the BackgroundWorker class. The BackgroundWorker class provides an easy way for a programmer to execute a time-consuming operation on a separate background thread while providing a simple way to communicate progress, completion and other information about the background operation to the thread which started the… Read More: The .NET BackgroundWorker class and You »

Proper Etiquette for using MySQL in C# (Part of 3 of 3) – DbDataReader

Looking back on this series, we have discussed both proper management of database related resources and how to protect and improve the performance of our applications through the use of Parameterized Queries (Prepared Statements). Since the primary reason for accessing a database is to read data from it, it would be a shame if we… Read More: Proper Etiquette for using MySQL in C# (Part of 3… »