I want to give a quick shout-out to Sara Ford and Zain Naboulsi for their great Visual Studio tips. If you use VS in your day-to-day work, you owe it to yourself to browse these blogs: there's sure to be a thing or five that will save you time and effort...

The custom control I've been working on required drawing custom shapes on each side of the control. The shapes needed to be the same size and I was sure that one was a couple of pixels shorter than the other, but it was difficult to tell with the naked...

Loading embedded resources at runtime has always mystified me. Should I use the ComponentResourceManager class? Should I try to find the ResourceStream in the assembly? And what's the correct name to use to identify it? Is it simply the file name? Or...